By setting the default language, you specify which language the spell check, hyphenation and thesaurus should use by default. Thus, set the language in which you usually write your documents here.
To do so, proceed as follows:
| 1. | Choose the ribbon command File | Options  to open the dialog box. |
Alternatively: Choose the ribbon command Review | Spell check  | Settings. |
| 2. | Switch to the Language tab. |
| 3. | Select the desired language from the list Default language. |
Note: Please note that there are two entries in this list for German:
▪"German (Germany)" stands for the new spelling (according to the 1996 German spelling reform in its last revision in 2006).
▪"German (Germany, old)", on the other hand, stands for the old spelling.
The same applies to "German (Austria)" and "German (Switzerland)".
When you create new documents, they are always formatted in the default language by default. Of course, you can also write documents that contain text (wholly or partially) in other languages. For more information, see the next section.