FreeOffice: SoftMaker FreeOffice does not have the premium SoftMaker dictionaries normally included in SoftMaker Office. Only Hunspell dictionaries can be used here.
If you have multiple dictionaries installed for a language (for example, a SoftMaker dictionary and a Hunspell dictionary), you can always choose which of these dictionaries to use for the language. Proceed as follows:
| 1. | Choose the ribbon command File | Options  for the dialog box and switch to the Language tab. |
| 2. | Click on the Manage dictionaries button. |
The program displays the dialog box "Dictionaries" with a list of all installed languages/dictionaries.
| 3. | Navigate to the desired Language in this list. The dictionaries of a language can appear in the list with the following additions: |
| No addition: SoftMaker Office's in-house dictionary for this language. |
| Hunspell: Free Hunspell dictionary for this language. |
| Duden: The official Duden dictionary (only included in SoftMaker Office Professional and NX Universal, only available in German). For more information, see below. |
| 4. | Now specify which of these dictionaries should be used for the desired language. Here, the icons to the left of a dictionary have the following meaning: |
| Blue icon: The dictionary is already installed and switched on. |
| Gray icon: The dictionary is already installed and is not switched on. |
| No icon: The dictionary is not yet installed. |
| A blue icon thus indicates the currently active dictionary for the respective language. If you want to change the active dictionary, select another dictionary for this language from the list and click on the Switch button. |
| (If the dictionary is not installed yet, click on the Install button beforehand.) |
| 5. | Confirm your changes by pressing OK. |
From now on, the spell check will use the selected dictionary for the specified language.
Use Duden Korrektor for German spell check
For users of SoftMaker Office Professional and NX Universal (not in the Android/iOS version), an additional option is also available:
If you enable the option Use Duden Korrektor for German spell check in the dialog box "Dictionaries", the dictionary for all variants of the German language (Germany, Austria, Switzerland, etc.) will be set to the corresponding Duden dictionary.
This option can also be found under the same name in the main dialog box of the ribbon command File | Options (on the Language tab) and has the same effect.
Show only installed dictionaries
Enable this option if only the installed dictionaries should be displayed in the list.
Ask to install dictionaries when necessary
For more information on this option, see the descriptions in the previous section Installing additional dictionaries.