Have Chrome autodetect language before spelling checking?

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2014-04
  • Egon Willighagen

    Chrome can automatically spell check emails I am writing in Gmail. I have two language installed: Dutch and English in both UK and US versions. And I type emails in both languages regularly. However, that requires me to switch the setting all the time:

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    Can I have Chrome automatically detect which language I am typing my email in, and automatically pick the correct language for spell checking?

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  • eakkas

    This does not seem to be possible currently. See http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=95604 at the very bottom. It suggests what you did...


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    Change spelling check language for a Document in Microsoft Word 2010
  • hvtuananh

    Usually I use Microsoft Word 2010 to write English documents

    Now I'm editing a document of another language, and want to change the spelling check language of this document

    This change should not affect other documents (means does not saved by default) so I can work with English documents in the future

    Any clue? Thanks in advance.


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  • phenry

    In Word 2010:

    1. Select the text you want to affect. You can use Ctrl + A to select all the text in the document.
    2. Review tab > Language group > Language button > Set Proofing Language
    3. In the Language dialog, select the language you want to use for spell checking.

    In Word 2007, Review tab > Proofing group > Set Language will accomplish the same thing.

  • Ralf

    Instead of selecting all the text, you can change the language for a specific style. Most styles are based on Normal, so you usually only need to change the Normal style.

    In the Home ribbon, right-click on the Normal style and click Modify. Then click Format -> Language, and select the language. A blog post with screenshots is also available here.

    This should also affect headers and footers.

    This works in Office 2007 and 2010. In earlier versions it is also possible, but the process is slightly different.

  • Richard

    The language is determine by the paragraphs language setting (i.e. an English paragraph followed by one in French will each use the right spelling checker).

    To change the body of the document, select all and then change the paragraph language, but this will not update headers, footers and footnotes (this other answer for details).

    Unless you change template content (or update a style with a language and save that change to the template) other documents will not be affected.

  • Avtar

    At the bottom where it says your normal language e.g. English (U.K.) click on that and it will let you change the language

  • Michael Haren

    In Word 2007 and 2010, the status bar at the bottom left shows the current paragraph language.

    To change the whole document select all (Ctrl + A) then click on the language to change it.

  • akid

    Office usually comes with a set of three languages, e.g. English, Spanish and French for the Canadian version. If the language you want to check is not one of the three languages in your copy of Office, you need to download a language pack.

  • Ruben

    In case you also come here because you're annoyed by having to change the language for all "track changes" comments individually, there's a shortcut:

    1. In Word 2011 on Mac, you can choose View>Sidebar>Reviewing Pane. There'll be corresponding ways to access this pane in other versions.
    2. Now you can select the text for all comments (and headers and footers too) and change their language.

    Unfortunately, new comments still use the default language.

  • Mehrad Mahmoudian

    in word 2011 mac, you can:

    1. select all the text (command + a)
    2. then from the menu go to Tools -> language
    3. in the newly opened window, click on English (or any other language you want)