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Spell checking language tagged text in documents
If you tag a word in a document to be a specific language, the spell checker locates the correct spelling dictionary to check the spelling of that word. (The correct language dictionary must be installed.) If you have a word tagged as Italian, for example, and the words following it are untagged, you can set an option in the spell checker to continue checking those untagged words using the Italian dictionary until a word is tagged as a different language. If you do not enable this option, the spell checker uses the language dictionary for the tagged word, and then goes back to using the default dictionary for the untagged words until it comes across a tagged word again.

Note The default language for text is Untagged. The spell checker uses your default dictionary to spell check Untagged text. If you want the spell checker to skip particular words in a document, mark the words as Unknown.

To check the spelling of continuous text tagged as a specific language in all documents

1. Click File > Preferences > User Preferences.
Macintosh OS X users: Notes > Preferences > User Preferences.

2. Click International > Spell Check.

3. Under Defaults for [language], select Keep on the fly dictionary changes until next language tag change.

To check the spelling of continuous text tagged as a specific language per document

Regardless of your settings for the spell checker in Preferences, this procedure overrides those settings so you can change your preferences on certain documents.

1. Put the document in Edit mode.

2. Click Tools > Spell Check.

3. Click Spelling Options and select Keep on the fly dictionary changes until next language tag change.

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