1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
62
63
64
65
66
67
|
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<helpdocument version="1.0">
<!--
* This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
*
* This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
* License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
* file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
*
* This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
*
* Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
* contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
* with this work for additional information regarding copyright
* ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
* License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
* except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
* the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
-->
<meta>
<topic id="textswriterguidespellcheck_dialogxml" indexer="include">
<title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">Checking Spelling and Grammar</title>
<filename>/text/swriter/guide/spellcheck_dialog.xhp</filename>
</topic>
</meta>
<body>
<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3149684">
<bookmark_value>spellcheck; checking text documents manually</bookmark_value>
<bookmark_value>checking spelling;manually</bookmark_value>
<bookmark_value>grammar checker</bookmark_value>
</bookmark>
<paragraph id="hd_id3149684" role="heading" level="1" xml-lang="en-US"><variable id="spellcheck_dialog"><link href="text/swriter/guide/spellcheck_dialog.xhp" name="Checking Spelling and Grammar">Checking Spelling and Grammar</link></variable></paragraph>
<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>
<list type="ordered">
<listitem>
<paragraph id="par_id3155859" role="listitem" xml-lang="en-US">Click in the document, or select the text that you want to check.</paragraph>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<paragraph id="par_id3149836" role="listitem" xml-lang="en-US">Choose <emph>Tools - Spelling</emph>.</paragraph>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<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>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<paragraph id="par_id3149861" role="listitem" xml-lang="en-US">Do one of the following:</paragraph>
<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>
</listitem>
</list>
<section id="relatedtopics">
<embed href="text/swriter/guide/auto_spellcheck.xhp#auto_spellcheck"/><comment>removed a line</comment>
<paragraph id="par_id3147107" role="paragraph" xml-lang="en-US"><link href="text/shared/01/06010000.xhp" name="Spelling">Spelling dialog</link></paragraph>
<embed href="text/swriter/guide/using_hyphen.xhp#using_hyphen"/>
<embed href="text/swriter/guide/using_thesaurus.xhp#using_thesaurus"/>
</section>
</body>
</helpdocument>
|
