Check the spelling of text written in another language

Microsoft Office Publisher 2003

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When you mark text in a publication that is written in another language, you can then use a thesaurus, hyphenate, and check the spelling for text in multiple languages.

Notes

  • You cannot set WordArt as being in another language.
  • You can set the language in merge fields, but the fields will not be spellchecked or hypenated, nor will they be looked up in the thesaurus if the text was selected prior to opening the thesaurus.
  • Web form controls marked as being in another language are not spellchecked, but any text associated with them is spellchecked.
  1. Select the text you want to mark by doing one of the following:
    • Highlight a portion of text within a frame.
    • Press CTRL+A to select an entire story in connected text boxes.
  2. On the Tools menu, point to Language, and then click Set Language.
  3. In the Language dialog box, under Mark selected text as, click the language you want.
  4. Click OK.

    Note  To reset the marked text as being in the default language, immediately click Undo on the Edit menu.

  1. To select the text you want to check the spelling of, do one of the following:
    • Highlight a portion of text within a frame.
    • Press CTRL+A to select an entire story in connected text boxes.
  2. On the Tools menu, point to Spelling, and then click Spelling.
    • If Microsoft Publisher finds no misspellings, it will display a message stating that it has finished checking the text, and the spelling check will end.
    • If Publisher finds a word it does not recognize, the Check Spelling dialog box will appear.
  3. In the Check Spelling dialog box, click the option you want for each word that the spelling checker finds.

    You can leave the spelling of the word as it is, change it, or add the word to the dictionary so that Publisher ignores it in the future.

  4. To check the spelling in every text and table frame in the current publication, select the Check all stories check box.
  5. Do one of the following:
    • To stop the spelling check before all the text has been checked, in the Check Spelling dialog box, click Close.
    • To close the Check Spelling dialog box after Microsoft Publisher completes the check and displays a message, click OK.

ShowTip

If you check spelling or grammar in another language, and the correct files aren't available on your computer, then Publisher will try to automatically install them. If Publisher can't install the correct files, you might need to get the files from the Office 2003 Proofing Tools.

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