Language tools

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Language tools

Presentations contains sophisticated language tools consisting of a spell check, hyphenation and a thesaurus. (Depending on your chosen language, you may have only the hyphenation feature, or the hyphenation and spell check features.)

This chapter provides a comprehensive introduction to all available language tools. It consists of the following sections:

Setting the language

The language for spell check, hyphenation and thesaurus can be set via the ribbon command File | Options (Language tab).

Spell check

The spell check checks a document's text for typos and suggests corrections in the event of errors.

Hyphenation

When you enable it, the hyphenation feature automatically hyphenates long words (according to their spoken syllables) at the ends of lines.

Thesaurus

FreeOffice: The thesaurus is not included in SoftMaker FreeOffice.

The large thesaurus integrated into Presentations shows you synonyms (words of the same or related meaning) for a word. Thesauri are also available for many foreign languages.

Research

Only available in SoftMaker Office Professional and NX Universal: Look up terms on research platforms on the Internet (Wikipedia, Oxford dictionary, Cambridge dictionary, etc.) directly from the document.

SmartText

FreeOffice: The SmartText function is not included in SoftMaker FreeOffice.

You can use SmartText to automatically correct your "favorite typos" and define abbreviations for frequently used phrases – for example, "sd" for "sales department".