On Wednesday February 21 2007 5:29 pm, Kirsten Chevalier wrote:
> On 2/21/07, Dan Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > This can be done with styles in the Styles and Formating
> > window. You create one paragraph style for British English and
> > another one for American English.
> > To do this, use the F11 key to open the Styles and Formating
> > window. Make sure the Paragraph Styles icon is selected. (The
> > list below it will includes Heading, Heading 1, etc.) Right click
> > Default and select Modify from the context menu. Click the Font
> > tab, and select English(UK) as the Language from the drop down
> > list. Click the Organizer tab, and enter British English as the
> > name of the new style. Set the next style as British English.
> > Click OK. Repeat this process for your American English style.
> > (Under the font tab, select English(USA) as the Language. The
> > next style in this case should be American English.)
> > Highlight each article and select the appropriate paragraph
> > style for the type of English used in that article. Spell
> > checking should then work as you want.
>
> This didn't work. I created a "British English" style as you said,
> but words like "behaviour" are still squiggly-red-underlined, and
> although the style properties show up as:
> Contains:
> Western text (English (UK))
> in the Organizer tab, when I do Tools -> Spellcheck, the Dictionary
> still shows up as "English (USA)" in the popup menu; spellcheck
> apparently ignores the language property in the style.
>
> Any other suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
> Kirsten
Sorry, I left out part of one very important step: the last one.
You have to apply the styles to the paragraphs. To do this,
highlight the article and double click the appropriate style.
Specifically, select all of the text of an article written in
British English. Double click the British English style you created.
These paragraphs should now show behaviour as correct and behavior as
incorrect.
To make a quick check, right click one of the words in this
article. Select Spellcheck from the context menu. You should see the
Dictionary language as English(UK).
To get the most out of using styles, go to
http://documentation.openoffice.org/manuals/oooauthors2/. In the
Getting Started Guide, there is a chapter on styles. In the Writer
Guide, there are an additional two chapters on styles.
Dan
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