/text/shared/guide/language_select.xhp languages; selecting for text documents; languages characters; language selection character styles;language selection text; language selection paragraph styles; languages drawings; languages defaults;languages spellcheck; default languages dictionaries, see also languages mw deleted "applying;" and changed "languages;" Selecting the Document Language The language you select for your document determines the dictionary used for spellcheck, thesaurus and hyphenation, the decimal and thousands delimiter used and the default currency format. The language you select applies to the whole document. Within the document, you can apply a separate language to any paragraph style. This has priority over the language of the whole document. You can assign a language to selected pieces of text in a paragraph, either by direct formatting or with a character style. This assignment has priority over the paragraph style and document language. Selecting a language for the whole document Choose Tools - Options. Go to Language Settings - Languages. Under Default languages for documents, select the document language for all newly created documents. If you mark For the current document only, your choice will only apply to the current document. Close the dialog with OK. Selecting a language for a Paragraph Style Place the cursor in the paragraph whose paragraph style you want to edit. Open the context menu and select Edit Paragraph Style. This opens the Paragraph Style dialog. Select the Font tab. Select the Language and click OK. All paragraphs formatted with the current paragraph style will have the selected language. Applying a language directly to selected text Select the text to which you want to apply a language. Choose Format - Character. This opens the Character dialog. Select the Font tab. Select the Language and click OK. In %PRODUCTNAME Calc, choose Format - Cells and proceed accordingly. Selecting a language for a Character Style Open the Styles and Formatting window and click on the Character Styles icon. Click on the name of the character style to which you want to apply a different language. Then open the context menu in the Styles and Formatting window and select Modify. This opens the Character Style dialog. Select the Font tab. Select the Language and click OK. Now you can apply the character style to your selected text. UFI: copied this OOo only text from http://blogs.sun.com/oootnt/entry/adding_more_languages_to_ooo - see i76182 Adding More Text Languages In OpenOffice.org software, you can choose File - Wizards - Install new dictionaries to open a Writer document which helps you to install more languages.this document is only available with OOo, not SO The document contains pages in many different languages. Click your own language on the first page to see the following instructions in your own language. Click the big button in the middle of the document page. This starts a macro to display more info and download the dictionary files. Select to install the new files for the current user only or for all users (which requires write permission to the shared folder). Click Next. Click Retrieve the list button. After some short delay, you see a list of available Spelling dictionaries. Select the languages for Spelling and click Next. Click Retrieve the list and select languages for Hyphenation and for Thesaurus. The macro downloads the files to the appropriate folder. After you click Finish, you must close OpenOffice.org software (including the Quickstarter), and restart. Setting UI Language A standard installation of OpenOffice.org software will give you a user interface (UI) of your chosen language. Most users download the American English version, which gives you English menu commands and English application help. If you want another language for the menus (and for the application help, if available in that language), change the UI language as follows. Choose Tools - Options - Language Settings - Languages. Select another UI language in the "User interface" listbox. Click OK and restart the OpenOffice.org software. If the listbox doesn't list the language that you want, see "Adding More UI Languages". Adding More UI Languages Open your Web browser and enter http://oootranslation.services.openoffice.org/pub/OpenOffice.org/ Select and download the correct language pack for your version of OpenOffice.org software. Close OpenOffice.org software (also close the Quickstarter, if you enabled it). Install the language pack. Either double-click the exe file, or unpack the tar.gz file according to standard practice on your platform. Tools - Options - Language Settings - Languages Format - Character - Font