How spell checking multi-language documents works

If you have multiple language dictionaries installed, you can check the spelling in emails, calendar entries, and other documents that use more than one language. To indicate which language dictionary to use, you tag the text in the document to check spelling against a language specific dictionary (the correct language dictionary must be installed).

For example, if a document includes both English text and Italian text, you can tag the text written in English as "English (United States)," and you can tag the text written in Italian as "Italian." Then when you perform spell check, you can switch from the English dictionary to the Italian dictionary. After you change dictionaries, you can continue checking in that same language. So in this scenario, if you tag a word as Italian, and the words following it are untagged, the spell checker continues to check the untagged words using the Italian dictionary until a word is tagged as a different language.

You can set the spell checker to continue using the selected dictionary until a new tag is encountered in one of two ways: by setting a spell check preference (applies to all documents) or by setting a spell check option on a per document basis.

Note: You can use the instant spell check feature with multi-language documents if you have the language dictionary installed.

Setting it up in Notes Standard

Task	Steps
Set the spell check preference that applies to all documents	Click File > Preferences Macintosh OS X users: Lotus Notes > Preferences Click Spell Check. Under the defaults section, select Keep on the fly dictionary changes until next language tag change.
Set the spell check option for a specific document	Put the document in Edit mode. Click Tools > Spell Check Click Spelling Options, and then select Keep on the fly dictionary changes until next language tag change.
Tag text for a specific language	Put the document in Edit mode. Select text or click where you to add new text. Click Text > Text Properties. Click the Font tab. Select a language.

Setting it up in Notes Basic

Task	Steps
Set the spell check preference that applies to all documents	Click File > Preferences > User Preferences. Macintosh OS X users: Lotus Notes > Preferences > User Preferences. Click International Spell Check. Under the defaults section, select Keep on the fly dictionary changes until next language tag change.
Set the spell check option for a specific document	Put the document in Edit mode. Click Tools Spell Check. Click Spelling Options, and then select Keep on the fly dictionary changes until next language tag change.
Tag text for a specific language	Put the document in Edit mode. Select text or click where you to add new text. Click Text > Text Properties. Click the Font tab. Select a language.

Other notes about multi-language spell check

• You must have the language dictionaries installed to use this feature.
• By default, the language is Untagged and uses your default dictionary for spell check.
• If you want the spell checker to skip particular words in a document, mark the words as Unknown.