WORKING WITH DOCUMENTS

To identify and mark languages within a document
You can select any amount of text in a document and tag it as a specific language. For example, if you write a document that includes English text and Italian text, you can select the text written in English and mark it "English (United States)," and you can select the text written in Italian and mark it "Italian."

One of the advantages of associating a language to a selection of text is for spell checking. When you perform a spell check in the document, Notes knows to use the English (United States) dictionary to check the text marked as English (United States), and the Italian dictionary to check the text marked as Italian. For information on installing and using different language dictionaries, see Switch to a different spelling dictionary.

You must be in a rich-text field to change text languages.

1. Put the document in Edit mode.

2. To mark existing text, select the text. To mark new text, click where you want to enter the text.

3. Choose Text - Text Properties.

4. Click the Font tab.

5. Select a language from the Language list.


6. (Optional) If you are marking new text with a language, enter the new text.

7. Save and close the document.

Tip You can also use the status bar to mark languages in a document.

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