Document number: 15113

 

Foreign language dictionaries in Microsoft PowerPoint allow you to select the language in which you want your presentations to be spell checked. The default language is English (United States). Click on the information you would like about foreign language use in Microsoft PowerPoint:

• 15117 — What languages are supported in Office 97
• How to spell check a part of or an entire presentation in another language
• How to set the default spell checker to another language

 

 

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How to spell check a part of or an entire presentation in another language

To spell check part of a presentation or a single presentation without changing your default language spell checking language, follow these steps:

1. In an open presentation, choose the text you wish to have spell checked in another language:
   • To spell check an entire document with a different language, put the presentation into Outline View. Then press { Ctrl}{ A}. That will select all of the text in the document.
     • To put the document into Outline View, click on the Outline View icon at the bottom left-hand corner of the screen.

   • To spell check a portion of a presentation with a different language, select the passage of text you would like spell checked in another language by holding down the left mouse button and dragging your mouse over the area of text.

2. Click on the Tools menu, and then on Language...

3. Scroll in the Mark selected text as: box until you see the language you wish to use.
4. Click on your choice once with your mouse.
5. Click on the OK button.

The selected text will be spell checked using your chosen language. The rest of your presentation will be spell checked using your default language.

 

 

 

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How to set the default spell checker to another language

Follow these steps to set your spell checker to spell check all of your presentations in one of the supported languages. Not all languages are supported.

1. Open a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation.
2. Click on the Tools menu, and then on Language...
3. Scroll in the Mark selected text as: box until you see the language you wish to use.

4. Click on your choice once with your mouse.
5. Click the Default... button.
6. You will get a message informing you that the change will affect the active [current] presentation and all future presentations. Click Yes, if this is what you want.
7. Click OK.

 

The current and all new presentations created after the change will be spell checked using your chosen language, if that language support has been loaded.

 

 

 

 

Created by the PeopleSoft Knowledge Management Team.
Copyright © 2002 All rights reserved.
Created: kcw 05/19/1998
Revised: kcw 06/25/2002