When you perform a spell check in a document that includes language-tagged paragraphs, the English (United States) dictionary checks the text marked as English (United States), and the Italian dictionary checks the text marked as Italian. For information on installing and using different language dictionaries, see Switch to a different spelling dictionary.

You must be in a rich-text field to change text languages.

1. Put the document in Edit mode.

2. To mark existing text, select the text. To mark new text, click where you want to enter the text.

3. Click Text > Text Properties.

4. Click the Font tab.

5. Select a language from the Language list.

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.

See Also

Editing documents
Spell checking multi-language documents
Spell checking language tagged text in documents
Switching to a different spelling dictionary

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