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<bookmark_value>spellcheck; checking text documents manually</bookmark_value>
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<paragraph id="par_id3149814" role="paragraph" xml-lang="en-US">You can manually check the spelling and grammar of a text selection or the entire document.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_id0525200902184476" role="note" xml-lang="en-US">To check the spelling and the grammar of a text, the appropriate dictionaries must be installed. For many languages three different dictionaries exist: a spellchecker, a hyphenation dictionary, and a thesaurus. Each dictionary covers one language only. Grammar checkers can be downloaded and installed as extensions. See the <link href="https://extensions.libreoffice.org/extension-center?getCategories=Dictionary">extensions web page</link>.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_id3149828" role="paragraph" xml-lang="en-US">The spellcheck starts at the current cursor position, or at the beginning of the text selection.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="par_id3155859" role="listitem" xml-lang="en-US">Click in the document, or select the text that you want to check.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="par_id3149836" role="listitem" xml-lang="en-US">Choose <emph>Tools - Spelling</emph>.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="par_id3156104" role="listitem">When a possible spelling error is encountered, the <item type="menuitem">Spelling</item> dialog opens and $[officename] offers some suggested corrections.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="par_id3145099" role="listitem" xml-lang="en-US">To accept a correction, click the suggestion, and then click <emph>Correct</emph>.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_id3156241" role="listitem" xml-lang="en-US">Edit the sentence in the upper text box, and then click <emph>Correct</emph>.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_id3155886" role="listitem" xml-lang="en-US">To add the unknown word to a user-defined dictionary, click <emph>Add to Dictionary</emph>.</paragraph>
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