Bob wrote:
I mostly write in English, but occasionally in French (I'm trying to
improve my french). I have the French localisation files installed as
well as the French myspell dictionary.
When I click ABC (spellcheck) I have to select the french dictionary in
the drop-down menu for each and every word in the document, which is
tedious.
Is there a way of telling OOo that I always want to use the french
dictionary for certain documents?
In OpenOffice.org, dictionaries are associated with language, and
language is a property of character. So you have to tell OpenOffice.org
what language to assign to any character set (font) that you use.
For any document that is to be completely or mostly French you can do
this through Format -> Options -> Language settings -> Languages. There
you can change the Language to French, either for that document alone or
for all future documents (until you change it back again).
You might have to change the language in some of your styles to French
also. Press F11, and go through the paragraph and character style lists
one at a time, and in the Font tab set the language to French.
Once you have a document set up properly for French, a good technique
would be to save it as a template, called something like
“Default_Text_French” and use this as a basis for future documents in
French.
Note that if you are written a document with mixed French and English,
and are using styles, common procedure is to duplicate each of the
styles in the other language, that is create styles named
Default_French, Header_French, Text Body_French and so forth, based on
the corresponding English-styles. Then modify each one to change the
language to French in the Font tab.
If you don’t use styles, you can change the language by selecting the
entire document (with CTRL-A) and then changing the language for all
fonts through Format -> Character... -> Font.
Jim Allan
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