1*cdf0e10cSrcweir<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 2*cdf0e10cSrcweir<helpdocument version="1.0"> 3*cdf0e10cSrcweir 4*cdf0e10cSrcweir<!-- 5*cdf0e10cSrcweir*********************************************************************** 6*cdf0e10cSrcweir * 7*cdf0e10cSrcweir * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER. 8*cdf0e10cSrcweir * 9*cdf0e10cSrcweir * Copyright 2000, 2010 Oracle and/or its affiliates. 10*cdf0e10cSrcweir * 11*cdf0e10cSrcweir * OpenOffice.org - a multi-platform office productivity suite 12*cdf0e10cSrcweir * 13*cdf0e10cSrcweir * This file is part of OpenOffice.org. 14*cdf0e10cSrcweir * 15*cdf0e10cSrcweir * OpenOffice.org is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify 16*cdf0e10cSrcweir * it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License version 3 17*cdf0e10cSrcweir * only, as published by the Free Software Foundation. 18*cdf0e10cSrcweir * 19*cdf0e10cSrcweir * OpenOffice.org is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, 20*cdf0e10cSrcweir * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 21*cdf0e10cSrcweir * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. 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If not, see 27*cdf0e10cSrcweir * <http://www.openoffice.org/license.html> 28*cdf0e10cSrcweir * for a copy of the LGPLv3 License. 29*cdf0e10cSrcweir * 30*cdf0e10cSrcweir ************************************************************************ 31*cdf0e10cSrcweir --> 32*cdf0e10cSrcweir 33*cdf0e10cSrcweir 34*cdf0e10cSrcweir<meta> 35*cdf0e10cSrcweir <topic id="textswriterguidespellcheck_dialogxml" indexer="include"> 36*cdf0e10cSrcweir <title xml-lang="en-US" id="tit">Checking Spelling and Grammar</title> 37*cdf0e10cSrcweir <filename>/text/swriter/guide/spellcheck_dialog.xhp</filename> 38*cdf0e10cSrcweir </topic> 39*cdf0e10cSrcweir </meta> 40*cdf0e10cSrcweir <body> 41*cdf0e10cSrcweir<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3149684"><bookmark_value>spellcheck; checking text documents manually</bookmark_value> 42*cdf0e10cSrcweir <bookmark_value>checking spelling;manually</bookmark_value> 43*cdf0e10cSrcweir <bookmark_value>grammar checker</bookmark_value> 44*cdf0e10cSrcweir</bookmark><comment>mw added "grammar checker"</comment> 45*cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="hd_id3149684" role="heading" level="1" l10n="U" 46*cdf0e10cSrcweir oldref="37"><variable id="spellcheck_dialog"><link href="text/swriter/guide/spellcheck_dialog.xhp" name="Checking Spelling and Grammar">Checking Spelling and Grammar</link> 47*cdf0e10cSrcweir</variable></paragraph> 48*cdf0e10cSrcweir <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> 49*cdf0e10cSrcweir <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> 50*cdf0e10cSrcweir <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> 51*cdf0e10cSrcweir <list type="ordered"> 52*cdf0e10cSrcweir <listitem> 53*cdf0e10cSrcweir <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> 54*cdf0e10cSrcweir </listitem> 55*cdf0e10cSrcweir <listitem> 56*cdf0e10cSrcweir <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3149836" role="listitem" l10n="CHG" oldref="44">Choose <emph>Tools - Spelling and Grammar</emph>.</paragraph> 57*cdf0e10cSrcweir </listitem> 58*cdf0e10cSrcweir <listitem> 59*cdf0e10cSrcweir <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> 60*cdf0e10cSrcweir <emph/>dialog opens and $[officename] offers some suggested corrections.</paragraph> 61*cdf0e10cSrcweir </listitem> 62*cdf0e10cSrcweir <listitem> 63*cdf0e10cSrcweir <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3149861" role="listitem" l10n="U" oldref="46">Do one of the following:</paragraph> 64*cdf0e10cSrcweir <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> 65*cdf0e10cSrcweir <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> 66*cdf0e10cSrcweir <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> 67*cdf0e10cSrcweir </listitem> 68*cdf0e10cSrcweir </list> 69*cdf0e10cSrcweir <section id="relatedtopics"> 70*cdf0e10cSrcweir <embed href="text/swriter/guide/auto_spellcheck.xhp#auto_spellcheck"/> 71*cdf0e10cSrcweir<comment>removed a line</comment> 72*cdf0e10cSrcweir <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> 73*cdf0e10cSrcweir <embed href="text/swriter/guide/using_hyphen.xhp#using_hyphen"/> 74*cdf0e10cSrcweir <embed href="text/swriter/guide/using_thesaurus.xhp#using_thesaurus"/> 75*cdf0e10cSrcweir <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> 76*cdf0e10cSrcweir <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> 77*cdf0e10cSrcweir </section> 78*cdf0e10cSrcweir </body> 79*cdf0e10cSrcweir</helpdocument>