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         <title id="tit">Selecting the Document Language</title>
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<bookmark branch="index" id="bm_id3083278"><bookmark_value>languages; selecting for text</bookmark_value>
      <bookmark_value>documents; languages</bookmark_value>
      <bookmark_value>characters; language selection</bookmark_value>
      <bookmark_value>character styles;language selection</bookmark_value>
      <bookmark_value>text; language selection</bookmark_value>
      <bookmark_value>paragraph styles; languages</bookmark_value>
      <bookmark_value>drawings; languages</bookmark_value>
      <bookmark_value>defaults;languages</bookmark_value>
      <bookmark_value>spellcheck; default languages</bookmark_value>
      <bookmark_value>spelling; default languages</bookmark_value>
      <bookmark_value>dictionaries, see also languages</bookmark_value>
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<h1 id="hd_id3083278"><variable id="language_select"><link href="text/shared/guide/language_select.xhp">Selecting the Document Language</link>
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      <paragraph id="par_id3150040" role="paragraph">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.</paragraph>
      <list type="unordered">
         <listitem>
            <paragraph id="par_id3153093" role="listitem">The language you select applies to the whole document.</paragraph>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
            <paragraph id="par_id3152578" role="listitem">Within the document, you can apply a separate language to any paragraph style. This has priority over the language of the whole document.</paragraph>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
            <paragraph id="par_id3152886" role="listitem">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.</paragraph>
         </listitem>
      </list>
      <h2 id="hd_id3146121">Selecting a language for the whole document</h2>
      <list type="ordered">
         <listitem>
            <paragraph id="par_id3083443" role="listitem">Choose <switchinline select="sys"><caseinline select="MAC"><emph>%PRODUCTNAME - Preferences</emph></caseinline><defaultinline><emph>Tools - Options</emph></defaultinline></switchinline>. Go to <link href="text/shared/optionen/01140000.xhp"><emph>Languages and Locales - General</emph></link>.</paragraph>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
            <paragraph id="par_id3149664" role="listitem">Under <emph>Default languages for documents</emph>, select the document language for all newly created documents. If you mark <emph>For the current document only</emph>, your choice will only apply to the current document. Close the dialog with <emph>OK</emph>.</paragraph>
         </listitem>
      </list>
      <h2 id="hd_id3152938">Selecting a language for a Paragraph Style</h2>
      <list type="ordered">
         <listitem>
            <paragraph id="par_id3150872" role="listitem">Place the cursor in the paragraph whose paragraph style you want to edit.</paragraph>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
            <paragraph id="par_id3145367" role="listitem">Open the context menu and select <emph>Edit Paragraph Style</emph>. This opens the <emph>Paragraph Style</emph> dialog.</paragraph>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
            <paragraph id="par_id3166413" role="listitem">Select the <emph>Font</emph> tab.</paragraph>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
            <paragraph id="par_id3156283" role="listitem">Select the <emph>Language</emph> and click <emph>OK</emph>.</paragraph>
            <paragraph id="par_id3154942" role="listitem">All paragraphs formatted with the current paragraph style will have the selected language.</paragraph>
         </listitem>
      </list>
      <h2 id="hd_id3145801">Applying a language directly to selected text</h2>
      <list type="ordered">
         <listitem>
            <paragraph id="par_id3148455" role="listitem">Select the text to which you want to apply a language.</paragraph>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
            <paragraph id="par_id3159348" role="listitem">Choose <emph>Format - Character</emph>. This opens the <emph>Character</emph> dialog.</paragraph>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
            <paragraph id="par_id3155600" role="listitem">Select the <emph>Font</emph> tab.</paragraph>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
            <paragraph id="par_id3154510" role="listitem">Select the <emph>Language</emph> and click <emph>OK</emph>.</paragraph>
         </listitem>
      </list>
      <paragraph id="par_id3154164" role="paragraph">In <item type="productname">%PRODUCTNAME</item> Calc, choose <emph>Format - Cells</emph> and proceed accordingly.</paragraph>
      <h2 id="hd_id3154272">Selecting a language for a Character Style</h2>
      <list type="ordered">
         <listitem>
            <paragraph id="par_id3145649" role="listitem">Open the Styles window and click on the <emph>Character Styles</emph> icon.</paragraph>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
            <paragraph id="par_id3146792" role="listitem">Click on the name of the character style to which you want to apply a different language.</paragraph>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
            <paragraph id="par_id3150753" role="listitem">Right-click to open the context menu and select <menuitem>Edit Style</menuitem> to open the <menuitem>Character Style</menuitem> dialog.</paragraph>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
            <paragraph id="par_id3150321" role="listitem">Select the <emph>Font</emph> tab.</paragraph>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
            <paragraph id="par_id3154756" role="listitem">Select the <emph>Language</emph> and click <emph>OK</emph>.</paragraph>
            <paragraph id="par_id3155766" role="listitem">Now you can apply the character style to your selected text.</paragraph>
         </listitem>
      </list><comment>UFI: see i76182</comment>
<h2 id="hd_id8703268">Adding More Text Languages</h2>
      <list type="ordered">
         <listitem>
            <paragraph id="par_id7919248" role="paragraph">Dictionaries are supplied and installed as extensions. Choose <item type="menuitem">Tools - Language - More Dictionaries Online</item> to open the dictionaries page in your default web browser.</paragraph>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
            <paragraph id="par_id5174108" role="paragraph">Select a dictionary in the list of descriptions. Click the heading in a dictionary description that you want to get.</paragraph>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
            <paragraph id="par_id2897427" role="paragraph">In the next page, click the <emph>Get It</emph> icon to download the dictionary extension. Note the folder name to which your browser downloads the file. Download additional dictionaries as you like.</paragraph>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
            <paragraph id="par_id3906979" role="paragraph">In %PRODUCTNAME, choose <menuitem>Tools - Extensions</menuitem> and click <emph>Add</emph> to install the downloaded extensions.</paragraph>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
            <paragraph id="par_id0220200911174493" role="paragraph">After you installed the extensions, you should close %PRODUCTNAME (including the Quickstarter), and restart.</paragraph>
         </listitem>
      </list>
      <h2 id="hd_id9100924">Setting UI Language</h2>
      <paragraph id="par_id2761314" role="paragraph">A standard installation of %PRODUCTNAME software will give you a user interface (UI) of your chosen language.</paragraph>
      <paragraph id="par_id3912778" role="paragraph">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.</paragraph>
      <list type="ordered">
         <listitem>
            <paragraph id="par_id3163853" role="paragraph">Choose <switchinline select="sys"><caseinline select="MAC"><item type="menuitem">%PRODUCTNAME - Preferences</item></caseinline><defaultinline><item type="menuitem">Tools - Options</item></defaultinline></switchinline><item type="menuitem"> - Languages and Locales - General</item>.</paragraph>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
            <paragraph id="par_id121158" role="paragraph">Select another UI language in the "User interface" listbox.</paragraph>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
            <paragraph id="par_id3806878" role="paragraph">Click <emph>OK</emph> and restart %PRODUCTNAME.</paragraph>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
            <paragraph id="par_id130619" role="paragraph">If the listbox doesn't list the language that you want, see "Adding More UI Languages".</paragraph>
         </listitem>
      </list>
      <h2 id="hd_id9999694">Adding More UI Languages</h2>
      <switch select="sys">
      <case select="WIN">
      <list type="ordered">
         <listitem>
            <paragraph id="par_id9852901" role="paragraph">Close %PRODUCTNAME software (also close the Quickstarter, if you enabled it).</paragraph>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
            <paragraph id="par_id3791925" role="paragraph">Run %PRODUCTNAME installer, choose <emph>Modify</emph>, then select the language that you would like to install from the <emph>Additional user interface languages</emph> group.</paragraph>
         </listitem>
      </list>
      </case>
      <case select="UNIX">
      <paragraph id="par_id9852903" role="paragraph">If you use %PRODUCTNAME packages maintained by your Linux distribution, follow the steps below.</paragraph>
      <list type="ordered">
         <listitem>
            <paragraph id="par_id9852902" role="paragraph">Close %PRODUCTNAME software (also close the Quickstarter, if you enabled it).</paragraph>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
            <paragraph id="par_id3791926" role="paragraph">Open your favourite package manager, look for %PRODUCTNAME language packs, and install the languages that you would like to use.</paragraph>
         </listitem>
      </list>
      <paragraph id="par_id9852904" role="paragraph">If you downloaded %PRODUCTNAME packages from the main %PRODUCTNAME Web site, follow the steps below.</paragraph>
      <list type="ordered">
         <listitem>
            <paragraph id="par_id2216559" role="paragraph">Open your web browser and enter <link href="https://www.libreoffice.org/download/"><emph>https://www.libreoffice.org/download/</emph></link>.</paragraph>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
            <paragraph id="par_id7869502" role="paragraph">Select and download the correct language pack for your version of %PRODUCTNAME software.</paragraph>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
            <paragraph id="par_id9852900" role="paragraph">Close %PRODUCTNAME software (also close the Quickstarter, if you enabled it).</paragraph>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
            <paragraph id="par_id3791924" role="paragraph">Install the language pack. Unpack tar.gz file and install the packages according to standard practice on your platform.</paragraph>
         </listitem>
      </list>
      </case>
      <case select="MAC">
      <list type="ordered">
         <listitem>
            <paragraph id="par_id221655a" role="paragraph">Open your web browser and enter <link href="https://www.libreoffice.org/download/"><emph>https://www.libreoffice.org/download/</emph></link>.</paragraph>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
            <paragraph id="par_id7869503" role="paragraph">Select and download the correct language pack for your version of %PRODUCTNAME software.</paragraph>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
            <paragraph id="par_id9852905" role="paragraph">Close %PRODUCTNAME software (also close the Quickstarter, if you enabled it).</paragraph>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
            <paragraph id="par_id3791927" role="paragraph">Install the language pack by double-clicking the dmg file.</paragraph>
         </listitem>
      </list>
      </case>
      </switch>

      <section id="relatedtopics">
         <paragraph id="par_id3150043" role="paragraph"><switchinline select="sys"><caseinline select="MAC">%PRODUCTNAME - Preferences</caseinline><defaultinline>Tools - Options</defaultinline></switchinline> - <link href="text/shared/optionen/01140000.xhp">Languages and Locales - General</link></paragraph>
         <paragraph id="par_id3152483" role="paragraph"><link href="text/shared/01/05020100.xhp">Format - Character - Font</link></paragraph>
      </section>
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