Mark text as another language

You can mark text in a publication as being in another language. This enables you to hyphenate and perform spelling checks for text in multiple languages.

Note   You cannot set mail merge fields, WordArt, or Web form controls as being in another language.

Mark portions of text

  1. Select the text you want to mark by doing one of the following:
  2. On the Tools menu, point to Language, and then click Set Language.
  3. In the Language dialog box, under Mark selected text as, click the language you want.
  4. Click OK.

    To reset the marked text as being in the default language, on the Edit menu, immediately click Undo.

Mark all text and table frames in a publication

  1. On the Tools menu, point to Language, and then click Set Language.
  2. In the Language dialog box, under Mark selected text as, click the language you want.
  3. Select the All Text check box.
  4. Click OK.

To reset the marked text as being in the default language, on the Edit menu, immediately click Undo.

Note   Any text that you add to the publication after this step will not be set as this language and it will not be checked automatically.