Language tools > Setting the language > Formatting text in another language

In the last section, you learned how to set the default language that Write should use by default for the spell check, hyphenation and thesaurus.

Furthermore, you can format any sections of text in another language – for example, if you want to use a Spanish quotation in a document that is mostly in English.

(Tip: This also applies to the date format when inserting Date/time.)

To do so, proceed as follows:

1.	Select the section of text whose language you want to change.

2.	On the ribbon tab Home \| group Character, click on the group arrow in the bottom right corner to open the dialog box.

3.	Select the desired language in the list Language on the Font tab.

The spell check, hyphenation and thesaurus know that this section of text is in another language and they provide the appropriate results.

In addition, the dropdown list Language contains two entries with a special meaning:

▪The language "Default"

This is the default setting.

By default, all documents that you create are formatted in the "default" language. You can set the default language with the ribbon command File | Options as described in the previous section.

▪The language "No language"

If you format a section of text with the language set as "No language", it will be ignored by the spell check. In addition, no hyphenation will be applied.

Tip: You can format the section of text in another language even faster as follows:
Set the desired language on the ribbon tab Review | group Spelling | Change language . Alternatively, just click on the language field in the status bar.