Writer Guide

You can also set the language for the whole document, for individual
paragraphs, or even for individual words and characters, all from
Tools > Language on the menu bar.
For selection
Applies a specified language to the selected text (the selection can
be as short as a few characters or as long as several paragraphs).
For paragraph
Select this option to apply the specified language to the paragraph
where the cursor is located.
For all text
Select this option to apply the specified language to all the
document.
Another way to change the language of a whole document is to use
Tools > Options > Language Settings > Languages. In the Default
languages for documents section, you can choose a different language
for all the text.
Figure 81: Options available in the Languages settings
Caution
Unlike the menu tool that applies to the individual document,
a change in the default language from the Options dialog
box is a general change of settings of OOo and will therefore
apply to all the documents created in the future. If you want
to change the language for the current document only, be
sure to select the For the current document only option.
The spelling checker works only for those languages in the list which
have the symbol next to them. If you do not see this symbol next to
your preferred language, you can install the dictionary using Tools >
Languages > More dictionaries online.
The language used for checking spelling is also shown in the status
bar, next to the page style in use.
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