OpenOffice: languages check and install
Before making the settings, first check what languages are installed in OpenOffice:
- Open OpenOffice and click on "settings".
- From the menu, select "Extension Manager". Here you have a list of all available languages.
- Is the desired language, and download this here download.
- Install it by clicking on "Add". Then, select the file to install it.

OpenOffice: install languages
Several languages of the OpenOffice spell checker to activate
- Highlight the desired Text in the word processor "Writer". Click on "tools" and select "language".
- The selected Text of a language to assign, and then select "selection" and finally "More".
- In the "language" menu you can now select the desired language.
- If you want to check the complete Text in a different language, select "language", the Option "For all Text". Alternatively, you can also select only a specific paragraph. This is under the setting "paragraph" also in the menu "language".

OpenOffice: select language
In a further article we will show you how to in OpenOffice footnotes.
