LibreOffice 24.8 Help
The language you select for your document determines the dictionary used for spell check, thesaurus and hyphenation, the decimal and thousands delimiter used and the default currency format.
The language you select applies to the whole document.
Within the document, you can apply a separate language to any paragraph style. This has priority over the language of the whole document.
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.
Choose Languages and Locales - General.
. Go toUnder Default languages for documents, select the document language for all newly created documents. If you mark For the current document only, your choice will only apply to the current document. Close the dialogue box with OK.
Place the cursor in the paragraph whose paragraph style you want to edit.
Open the context menu and select Edit Paragraph Style. This opens the Paragraph Style dialogue box.
Select the Font tab.
Select the Language and click OK.
All paragraphs formatted with the current paragraph style will have the selected language.
Select the text to which you want to apply a language.
Choose Format - Character. This opens the Character dialogue box.
Select the Font tab.
Select the Language and click OK.
In LibreOffice Calc, choose Format - Cells and proceed accordingly.
Open the Styles window and click on the Character Styles icon.
Click on the name of the character style to which you want to apply a different language.
Right-click to open the context menu and select
to open the dialog.Select the Font tab.
Select the Language and click OK.
Now you can apply the character style to your selected text.
Dictionaries are supplied and installed as extensions. Choose
to open the dictionaries page in your default web browser.Select a dictionary in the list of descriptions. Click the heading in a dictionary description that you want to get.
In the next page, click the Get It icon to download the dictionary extension. Note the folder name to which your browser downloads the file. Download additional dictionaries as you like.
In LibreOffice, choose Add to install the downloaded extensions.
and clickAfter you installed the extensions, you should close LibreOffice (including the Quickstarter), and restart.
A standard installation of LibreOffice software will give you a user interface (UI) of your chosen language.
Most users download the American English version, which gives you US English menu commands and 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.
Choose
.Select another UI language in the "User interface" list box.
Click OK and restart LibreOffice.
If the list box doesn't list the language that you want, see "Adding More UI Languages".