How?
Do one of the following to install multilingual support for:
Windows 2000
This procedure applies only if you are running a language version of Microsoft Windows 2000 that doesn't match the language you want to type. To enter characters for Baltic, Central European, Cyrillic, Greek, and Turkish languages in Microsoft Office programs, do the following:
- On the Windows Start menu, point to Settings, and then click Control Panel.
- Double-click the Regional Options icon, and then click the General tab.
- In the Language settings for the system box, select the check boxes next to the languages you want to use.
Windows 98 or Windows Millennium Edition
This procedure applies only if you are running a language version of Microsoft Windows 98 or Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition that doesn't match the language you want to type. Use this procedure when you want to be able to enter characters for Baltic, Central European, Cyrillic, Greek, and Turkish languages in Microsoft Office programs.
- On the Windows Start menu, point to Settings, and then click Control Panel.
- Double-click the Add/Remove Programs icon.
- Click the Windows Setup tab.
- In the Components list, click MultiLanguage Support, and then click Details.
- Select the check boxes next to the languages you want to use.
Windows NT 4.0
System support for multiple languages in Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 is automatically installed.
How?
- On the Microsoft Windows Start menu, point to Programs, point to Microsoft Office Tools, and then click Microsoft Office XP Language Settings.
- Click the Enabled Languages tab.
- In the Available languages box, select the language you want to enable.
- Click Add.
If any Microsoft Office programs are running, the Language Settings tool notifies you and automatically closes the programs. The features for the language you enabled appear the next time you start an Office program.
Note If you see (limited support) next to a language in the Available languages box, you may need to install additional system support for the language. The available support depends on your operating system.
If you check spelling or grammar in another language, and the correct files aren't available on your computer, then Microsoft Word will try to automatically install them. If Word can't install the correct files, you may need to obtain the files from the Microsoft Office XP Proofing Tools. Proofing Tools is available for purchase at Shop.microsoft.com or outside the United States from a licensed reseller.
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How?
If you're working in more than one language within a document, Microsoft Word can automatically detect each language as you type it.
Note To use this feature, you must first set up your computer to support multilingual editing, and then enable the languages you want to use for editing.
- On the Tools menu, point to Language, and then click Set Language.
- Select the Detect language automatically check box.
Notes
To turn off automatic language detection in your document, clear the Detect language automatically check box.
To turn off the automatic detection of a particular language, remove it from the list of enabled languages in the Microsoft Office Language Settings tool. Remove the language only if you don't want to use features particular to that language (for example, date formats) in Word and other Microsoft Office programs.
How?
- On the Tools menu, click Options, and then click the Spelling & Grammar tab.
- Set the options you want.
For Help on an option, click the question mark
, and then click the option.
How?
By default, Microsoft Word checks spelling and grammar automatically as you type, using wavy red underlines to indicate possible spelling problems and wavy green underlines to indicate possible grammatical problems.
You can also check spelling and grammar all at once.
- Make sure automatic spelling and grammar checking are turned on.
- On the Tools menu, click Options, and then click the Spelling & Grammar tab.
- Select the Check spelling as you type and Check grammar as you type check boxes.
- Type in the document.
- Right-click a word with a wavy red or green underline, and then select the command or the spelling alternative you want.
- You can use AutoCorrect to automatically correct spelling as you type, without having to confirm each correction. For example, if you type definately and then type a space or other punctuation, AutoCorrect replaces it with "definitely."
- If Word finds a lowercase word, for example "london," that is listed in the main dictionary only with a different capitalization ("London,") the capitalization may be flagged or corrected automatically as you type. You can specify that Word doesn't flag this capitalization by adding the lowercase form to a custom dictionary.
This method is useful if you want to postpone proofing a document until after you finish editing it. You can check for possible spelling and grammatical problems, and then confirm each correction.
Note By default, Word checks both spelling and grammar. If you want to check spelling only, click Options on the Tools menu, click the Spelling & Grammar tab, clear the Check grammar with spelling check box, and then click OK.
- On the Standard toolbar, click Spelling and Grammar
.
- When Word finds a possible spelling or grammatical problem, make your changes in the Spelling and Grammar dialog box.
For Help on an option, click the question mark
- You can correct spelling and grammar directly in the document while the Spelling and Grammar dialog box is still displayed. Type your correction in the document, and then click Resume in the Spelling and Grammar dialog box.
- For a detailed explanation of a grammar flag, click Explain in the Spelling and Grammar dialog box.
Note If you mistype a word but the result is not a misspelling (for example, typing "from" instead of "form" or "there" instead of "their"), the spelling checker will not flag the word. To catch those types of problems, use the grammar checker.