Language tools > Spell check > Checking the spelling as you type

FreeOffice: SoftMaker FreeOffice does not include the premium SoftMaker dictionaries normally shipped with SoftMaker Office. Only Hunspell dictionaries can be used here.

Only Hunspell dictionaries for English and German are already installed. If you need more languages, see Installing Hunspell dictionaries.

The option Check spelling as you type constantly checks the whole text for spelling errors. All misspelled words are marked with a red underline.

Enabling the option "Check spelling as you type"

To enable the function Check spelling as you type, choose the ribbon command File | Options, switch to the Language tab in the dialog box and enable the option Check spelling as you type there.

Tip: You can also enable this setting directly on the ribbon tab Slide show | group Review | Spell check without going via the dialog box. Click on the small arrow of the icon and select the entry Check spelling as you type.

Presentations will now continuously check the entire document for spelling errors in the background. It will not only recognize existing spelling errors in the document, but will also immediately examine changes and additions to the text for correct spelling.

Correcting misspelled words

Misspelled words are highlighted with red wavy underlines on the screen. This allows you to see all misspelled words at a glance so that you can either correct them immediately or at a later time.

To correct one of these words underlined in red, either just change its spelling manually or right-click on the word to open the spell check's context menu:

Android/iOS: In these versions, you can also open the context menu with your finger: Just tap on the screen and hold your finger there for about a second.

The context menu contains the following items:

Item	Function
List of suggestions	The upper part of the context menu offers suggestions for the correct spelling of the word if any are found by Presentations. If you click on one of them, it will replace the word in the text.
	If Presentations finds a large number of suggestions, an additional menu item called More suggestions... appears. If you click on this item, a dialog box will appear with all suggestions that were found. For more information, see Manual spell check.
Ignore word	This option ignores the spelling error (for all instances of this word) and removes the red underline.
	Use this option for words that are spelled correctly but should not be learned. When you exit Presentations, it "forgets" the ignored words.
Add word	This option instructs Presentations to add the word to the user dictionary and thus increase its vocabulary.
	Use this option for correctly spelled words that Presentations does not yet know. Presentations remembers these words permanently.
Create SmartText entry	This option creates a SmartText entry from the word. For more information on this function, see SmartText.

As soon as you correct the spelling or allow Presentations to ignore or add the word, the red underline disappears.

Blue underlined words: If you have also enabled the option Underline old German spellings in blue in the dialog box File | Options, you may also see blue underlined words in addition to red underlined words. These are words that correspond to the old German spelling but have to be written differently since the new spelling was introduced. For more information, see the next section.