At 17:03 25/02/2008 +0100, Gerard Verwer wrote: > 1. Although I can change the language of a document (very hidden under Tools, Options, Language, mark 'Only for this document') I cannot change it for an existing document which starts with a table.
> That's actually not so. Language is a property of paragraph styles, so you can set the language of your document (or parts of it) by changing it there. Go to right-click | Edit Paragraph Style... | Font and change the language there. You can also set the language of smaller pieces of text by selecting the text and using Format | Character... | Font (or right-click | Character... | Font). > See document attached. > The list processor normally strips attached documents before distributing messages - and did so with yours. So no-one will have seen your document, in fact. > 2. I cannot set a selected part of a document to a certain language. > You can - using the above techniques. If you change the language of the paragraph style, though, it will change for all parts of the document to which that style is applied. If you need multiple languages in a single document, you may wish to create separate paragraph styles for each language. > There is an option in the context menu when you left-click on a mistyped word 'The paragraph is in Dutch'. But that is only a paragraph and often the suggested choice is not what I want (English US instead of English UK). > That is merely one way of changing things. > And I cannot change it or (even better) there is no option to make my own decision (which I hate in software). > You can. There is no need to hate things that are not true! ;^) > 3. Ctrl-F7 only works only when the document or standard setting is English. Not in other languages. > Ctrl+F7 brings up the thesaurus, of course. Some thesauruses are bundled with the OpenOffice installation, but not others. If this doesn't work for other languages, that will be because you have yet to install the relevant thesauruses. Start OpenOffice Writer and go to File | Wizards > | Install new dictionaries... . Follow the * perhaps this is true under MSWindows, but in OpenSuse Linux OOo 2.3.0 there is no "Install new dictionaries" under File | Wizards. > instructions for downloading and installing the thesauruses (and dictionaries?) you require. I trust this helps. Brian Barker --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
