Colour or Color?
March 20 2006 07:00:00 AM
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Did you know that you can specify which
language the text in a document is written in? Did you know a document
can have more than one language?
Take for example, the following sentences:
- What colour was the centre of the poster?
- What color was the center of the poster?
Since my User Preferences have my Spell Checker defaulted to "English (United States)"
The words colour and centre will be found as errors
However, if I select the text, bring up the Properties Box, and then mark the language as "English (United Kingdom)"
the Spell Checker will now skip right past these words, since they are spelt correctly for the tagged language.
Having multiple languages supported in a single document can be very useful in today's global workplace.
Take for example, the following sentences:
- What colour was the centre of the poster?
- What color was the center of the poster?
Since my User Preferences have my Spell Checker defaulted to "English (United States)"
The words colour and centre will be found as errors
However, if I select the text, bring up the Properties Box, and then mark the language as "English (United Kingdom)"
the Spell Checker will now skip right past these words, since they are spelt correctly for the tagged language.
Having multiple languages supported in a single document can be very useful in today's global workplace.
This is a good one for Spellchecking and Mail writing. For true multilingual applications especially with Keywords it is useless.
I *told* you Canada's not a country! Or at least only French-speaking Canada is a country, according to Notes. The English-speaking part is just another US state, like Minnesota or North Dakota -- or apparently part of the UK.
<Flame prevention: I'm just giving Alan a hard time, again>
I thought Canada was a state in the USA! Did I miss something?