Outlook Language Spell Check Change

[Marcelo Chaplin]

Ifyou need to add text that's in a language other than the one you normally use, Office can help check spelling and grammar for you. Receive basic guidance in more than 20 languages, and spelling suggestions in more than 80, using Editor with Microsoft 365.

In MS Word for example, you can mark different areas of the text as belonging to a selected language. Then spell check works across multiple languages. It would be nice if EMC could do something like that.

I use the @Son-of-A-Gun method if I need to, however, what I tend to do is NOT to spell check Spanish as my mother tongue and use spell check with Portuguese and then sometimes English, in other words I use spell check with the language that I am least confident with.

And finally as @Victor.David says the MS Word capability added to eMC would be a great addition.

I would like to bring the issue back into focus. If there is no way for emClient to automatically detect which language I am writing in, would it be possible to at least change the language with a self-defined keyboard shortcut?

I and many others posted that simple request many year ago in different threads, but we are told that this feature is not needed and not planned to be implemented. How is it then possible that users keep coming with the very same request then?

Others wish an even broader language support of emClient (LanguageTool grammar checker support - #16 by Tronks) yet all those requests are ignored.

Please someone from the company reply and let us know an update on that status, so we can make our decision if we want/ need to move on to another solution or you want to keep your customers and get more in the future. If you plan to implement this feature let us know as well when we can expect that.

That is fine for those who use different keyboard layouts for different languages. Like already explained, in Germany and many other countries you will use one keyboard layout and not switch that to write in different languages. So this is not a solution for many!

The other is the keyboard option as I mentioned above. So whatever keyboard you are using, that language will be used for the spell-check. And if you change to another keyboard language, the spell-check will follow.

Many thanks Gary, but these two solutions are not very usuful for me because if I write an email in Spanish that is application language and then in English I should have to change the application language again, what is unproductive. And the keyboard solution the same because you will have to change with every email. What I am asking is for a method that detects the language as you write like in Outlook without doing anything with settings or keyboard. And I see there is in EmClient. Nevertheless thanks for your interest.

One of the reasons that I do not use eM Client often but we are fortunate we have computers with different OS & keyboards.

At the moment I am using an English OS & keyboard on which we have a utility named Keytext with which we can program keystrokes for Spanish, German, French etc., more or less any language we want to give us accents and characters. It is not ideal but it is a good work-around, at random for instance:

Hi Gary, I changed settings to automatic spell-checker with keyboard. I have installed two keyboard languages: Spanish and English and I can change between both with alt + Shift. But when I change language in my keyboard the automatic spell checker doesn`t change and remains the same (Spanish). How does it works? What I am doing wrong?

Outlook Online will detect your browser's default language, which in turn normally picks up your default language from your computer's operating system. Fortunately, Outlook Online lets you choose and switch to a second language from a list of supported languages. Once you've finished emailing in that language, you can turn your spellchecker back to the original language.

You can now close the Settings panel and write your email in the language that you've chosen. When you're ready to go back to the original language, open the Settings menu and change the "Proofing Language" dropdown back.

I added the language/spell check to my work email (outlook.office). I follow the same procedure in my hotmail (outlook.live) and although I added them, it is not an option when I type a message.I use Firefox as a browser and cleaned the cache.Elizabeth

Hi Elizabeth, sorry for omitting the context. I was commenting on your second screenshot. That is the context menu shown when (non-editable) text is selected in the page -- it has far fewer actions than the regular menu. I suggested actions to try to get the regular menu back by deselecting whatever is selected. Is there really nothing selected -- Firefox is just very confused?

Hi Elizabeth, I'm not sure who is in charge of spell-checking in the mail editor. Firefox will use its own dictionaries, so if Firefox is adding the squiggly markings, you may also need to add dictionaries to Firefox. More info in this article: How do I use the Firefox spell checker? (the part about adding dictionaries; note: don't add a full language pack).

I had it already working, added the languages and the dictionaries. I right clicked on the mouse and chose the language I was using and it did a quite a good spell check. It stopped working!!! When I right click now, languages and spell check is not an option. It still works on my outlook.office account.as I matter of fact, it works on this website too... but what I get in hotmail.live is different

Possibly you used Find (Ctrl+f) and Firefox still has a found word selected somewhere on the page away from the editor itself? If any kind of Find bar is open, try clicking in the find box and pressing the Esc key to cancel the search.

I guess I am poor in my explanation. Although I had the option of changing languages when writing a text, with a right click of the mouse, now it does not show that option. It is still an option in my work email (outlook.office, see first screenshot) but not in my hotmail account (outlook.live, second screen shot) BUT IT WAS AN OPTION BEFORE. I assume in some updating something was changed? Is there something I need to toggle?Elizabeth

You can see which dictionary is selected if you right-click in a text area and open the Languages sub menu.

At least one dictionary should be installed and have a check mark to indicate that it is selected.

you are a genius...I started looking at the text and left clicking (!) I found a drop down menu where I chose "editor" and it gave me the first screenshot, with the option of "language"Several hours later, all is well.Thank you.

Well, the issue is limited to the Outlook email body text area. In the case of the subject line, right clicking does provide a Check Spelling and a Languages submenu. But not in the main body text area.

A webpage can disable the Firefox spell checker via a spellcheck="false" attribute of an input field or textarea or editable element and possibly provide its own spelling checker.You can right-click in the text area or input field and use "Inspect Element" to check in the Inspector if this text area has a spellcheck="false" attribute.You can Remove this spellcheck="false" attribute or change it to spellcheck="true" via a double-click or via "Edit As HTML" to make the "Check Spelling" item in the right-click context menu reappear.Firefox will disable "Check Spelling" in the right-click context menu of a text area if the web page disables the spelling checker via a spellcheck="false" attribute of this element.

But, it is possible to turn off spell check (proofing) by going to Settings/Mail/Compose and Reply/Microsoft Editor Settings where you can find a toggle switch for Spelling. After reloading the page, now, the textarea does not have the spellcheck attribute set to false and finally Firefox takes over. Ouf...

Answer:

Changing the spell check language in Outlook is a simple process. First, open the Outlook application and go to the File tab. From there, select Options and then Proofing. Under the Proofing tab, select the Language button. From the list of available languages, select the one that matches the language you want to use for spell-checking. For example, if you want to set English UK as the spell check language in Outlook, select English (United Kingdom). Once you select the language, press OK and then Apply. Your Outlook spell check should now be set to English UK.

In conclusion, changing the spell check in Outlook to English UK is a very quick and straightforward process. With a few clicks of your mouse, you will be able to access the spell check tool and switch it to the preferred language. This will ensure that your emails and documents are accurately checked for spelling and grammar mistakes, allowing you to communicate professionally and confidently.

This is apparently managed at the system level. Go to the Language Support menu in the System Settings menu and add the languages you want to support. After that restart LibreOffice and you will see that the spellchecker for example will give you the option of using the newly installed languages.

On some occasions, the language code needs to be supplemented with either a ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code as in hunspell-en-gb and hunspell-de-ch or a three or more letter abbreviation for specialist dictionaries as in hunspell-en-med for English medical terms.

You need to apply changes system wide in-order to reflect it in LibreOffice, Go to System Settings, Select your language preferences to get the language pack not just for LibreOffice but for your system.

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