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OpenOffice: select language for spell checker to change

  • Oct 26, 2025
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If you want to use in OpenOffice, the spellchecker for a Text in a foreign language, you need to make some small settings, and the language of the spell change check manually. We will show how this works.

OpenOffice: the language of the spell checker manually change

  1. You Can Open OpenOffice. In the bottom row you see in the middle the current setting for the spell checker. By default, this should be set to "German (Germany)" is set.
  2. To be able to select more languages, you must enable this first via settings. To do this, go to the top on "tools" > "settings...".
  3. Navigate to "language settings" > "language".
  4. At the point of "locale" to select the desired language for the spelling checker and then click "OK".
  5. Click the one that is described in the language display in the bottom row and select the appropriate language.
Language for spell-checking
The manual refers to Version of OpenOffice 4.0.1 on Windows 8.1. How to in OpenOffice, word or character count, you will learn in this practical tip.

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