How To Change Language In Pages
If I use my Mac for multilingual projects, say I write a newsletter or do anything that’s not in English (i.e. Spanish, French, etc), and I’m trying to figure out how to set the language in Pages to fit my particular needs (including spell check and auto-correction). Here is how I do it.
1. In my document, select “Inspector”, which is the main control center of iWork.
2. Select whatever text I’ve already typed if any. If I haven’t typed anything yet, simply jump to step 3.
3. In Inspector, select the “T” for text. Here I will see all kinds of controls to change my text in different ways to fit any project I’m working on.
4. Within the Text controls, select “More”.
5. The second drop-down menu from the top is the Language menu. Select the appropriate language. Now, for this document everything I type within the text box I selected will be checked for the language I specified here.
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Cheers!
Leo
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Written by Leo de Leon
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Globalhaze
Wasn’t able to solve this problem with pages help. Thanks.
Aug 26th, 2007 11:30 am
Pieter
Thank you! I have been looking for a solution for a while now.
Sep 18th, 2007 10:18 am
JK
Thank you soooooo much I was lloking for the key for a long while
Sep 26th, 2007 12:23 pm
AJ
Thanks. Amazingly there is no answer in the help function as one would expect coming from MsWord where language shift is just a button in the main menue.
Jan 9th, 2008 7:51 am
AJ
Thanks. I didn’t know what to do. Amazingly there is no answer for this problem in the Pages’ help function as one would expect coming from ms Word where language shift is just a button in the main menue.
Jan 9th, 2008 7:57 am
Thank YOU!
Thank you very much! I was looking desperately for the past hour for a solution to this problem. Once again thank you.
Jan 23rd, 2008 4:02 pm
Manuel Mondragon
You rule!!! It’s incredible that wasn’t able to solve this problem with troubleshooting guide in apple help website…
Mar 11th, 2008 4:38 pm
Kyle
THANK YOU SO MUCH! I was not able to resolve this problem with pages help, and need to change it for a Spanish project! I am book marking you and will alert all my mac friends about this site! Thanks so much!
Apr 7th, 2008 3:15 pm
Richardson
Hello Steve,
My iBook G4 is in German language, how can i change it to English language.
regards.
Apr 24th, 2008 6:15 am