1cdf0e10cSrcweir<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 2cdf0e10cSrcweir<helpdocument version="1.0"> 3cdf0e10cSrcweir 4*0e4b25e7SAndrew Rist<!--*********************************************************** 5*0e4b25e7SAndrew Rist * 6*0e4b25e7SAndrew Rist * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one 7*0e4b25e7SAndrew Rist * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file 8*0e4b25e7SAndrew Rist * distributed with this work for additional information 9*0e4b25e7SAndrew Rist * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file 10*0e4b25e7SAndrew Rist * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the 11*0e4b25e7SAndrew Rist * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance 12*0e4b25e7SAndrew Rist * with the License. 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See the License for the 20*0e4b25e7SAndrew Rist * specific language governing permissions and limitations 21*0e4b25e7SAndrew Rist * under the License. 22*0e4b25e7SAndrew Rist * 23*0e4b25e7SAndrew Rist ***********************************************************--> 24*0e4b25e7SAndrew Rist 25*0e4b25e7SAndrew Rist 26cdf0e10cSrcweir 27cdf0e10cSrcweir 28cdf0e10cSrcweir<meta> 29cdf0e10cSrcweir <topic id="textswriterguidespellcheck_dialogxml" indexer="include"> 30cdf0e10cSrcweir <title xml-lang="en-US" id="tit">Checking Spelling and Grammar</title> 31cdf0e10cSrcweir <filename>/text/swriter/guide/spellcheck_dialog.xhp</filename> 32cdf0e10cSrcweir </topic> 33cdf0e10cSrcweir </meta> 34cdf0e10cSrcweir <body> 35cdf0e10cSrcweir<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3149684"><bookmark_value>spellcheck; checking text documents manually</bookmark_value> 36cdf0e10cSrcweir <bookmark_value>checking spelling;manually</bookmark_value> 37cdf0e10cSrcweir <bookmark_value>grammar checker</bookmark_value> 38cdf0e10cSrcweir</bookmark><comment>mw added "grammar checker"</comment> 39cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="hd_id3149684" role="heading" level="1" l10n="U" 40cdf0e10cSrcweir oldref="37"><variable id="spellcheck_dialog"><link href="text/swriter/guide/spellcheck_dialog.xhp" name="Checking Spelling and Grammar">Checking Spelling and Grammar</link> 41cdf0e10cSrcweir</variable></paragraph> 42cdf0e10cSrcweir <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3149814" role="paragraph" l10n="CHG" oldref="9">You can manually check the spelling and grammar of a text selection or the entire document.</paragraph> 43cdf0e10cSrcweir <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id0525200902184476" role="note" l10n="NEW">To check the spelling and the grammar of a text, the appropriate dictionaries must be installed. For many languages three different dictionaries exist: a spellchecker, a hyphenation dictionary, and a thesaurus. Each dictionary covers one language only. Grammar checkers can be downloaded and installed as extensions. See the <link href="http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/dictionary">extensions web page</link>.</paragraph> 44cdf0e10cSrcweir <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3149828" role="paragraph" l10n="U" oldref="10">The spellcheck starts at the current cursor position, or at the beginning of the text selection.</paragraph> 45cdf0e10cSrcweir <list type="ordered"> 46cdf0e10cSrcweir <listitem> 47cdf0e10cSrcweir <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3155859" role="listitem" l10n="U" oldref="43">Click in the document, or select the text that you want to check.</paragraph> 48cdf0e10cSrcweir </listitem> 49cdf0e10cSrcweir <listitem> 50cdf0e10cSrcweir <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3149836" role="listitem" l10n="CHG" oldref="44">Choose <emph>Tools - Spelling and Grammar</emph>.</paragraph> 51cdf0e10cSrcweir </listitem> 52cdf0e10cSrcweir <listitem> 53cdf0e10cSrcweir <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3156104" role="listitem" l10n="CHG" oldref="45">When a possible spelling error is encountered, the <item type="menuitem">Spellcheck</item> 54cdf0e10cSrcweir <emph/>dialog opens and $[officename] offers some suggested corrections.</paragraph> 55cdf0e10cSrcweir </listitem> 56cdf0e10cSrcweir <listitem> 57cdf0e10cSrcweir <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3149861" role="listitem" l10n="U" oldref="46">Do one of the following:</paragraph> 58cdf0e10cSrcweir <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3145099" role="listitem" l10n="CHG" oldref="47">To accept a correction, click the suggestion, and then click <emph>Change</emph>.</paragraph> 59cdf0e10cSrcweir <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3156241" role="listitem" l10n="CHG" oldref="48">Edit the sentence in the upper text box, and then click <emph>Change</emph>.</paragraph> 60cdf0e10cSrcweir <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3155886" role="listitem" l10n="CHG" oldref="40">To add the unknown word to a user-defined dictionary, click <emph>Add</emph>.</paragraph> 61cdf0e10cSrcweir </listitem> 62cdf0e10cSrcweir </list> 63cdf0e10cSrcweir <section id="relatedtopics"> 64cdf0e10cSrcweir <embed href="text/swriter/guide/auto_spellcheck.xhp#auto_spellcheck"/> 65cdf0e10cSrcweir<comment>removed a line</comment> 66cdf0e10cSrcweir <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3147107" role="paragraph" l10n="U" oldref="49"><link href="text/shared/01/06010000.xhp" name="Spellcheck dialog">Spelling and Grammar dialog</link></paragraph> 67cdf0e10cSrcweir <embed href="text/swriter/guide/using_hyphen.xhp#using_hyphen"/> 68cdf0e10cSrcweir <embed href="text/swriter/guide/using_thesaurus.xhp#using_thesaurus"/> 69cdf0e10cSrcweir <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id9625843" role="paragraph" l10n="NEW"><link href="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/How_Tos/Adding_More_Languages">Wiki page: Adding more languages</link></paragraph> 70cdf0e10cSrcweir <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id1683706" role="paragraph" l10n="NEW"><link href="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/How_Tos/Spellchecking_in_More_Languages">Wiki page: Multiple language spellchecking</link></paragraph> 71cdf0e10cSrcweir </section> 72cdf0e10cSrcweir </body> 73cdf0e10cSrcweir</helpdocument>