Hello,



I am helping my wife with her doctoral dissertation by editing and proofreading. The work is in English, but she has to quote original Latin and French in footnotes. There are over 560 references at this point, so there lots of authors names as well.

Recently, Word 2013 complained that there are too many "errors" to continue automatic spell checking so we had to turn it off.

I do add words to the dictionary. However, it is obviously very time-consuming to do that for every Latin word individually.

Is there a way to use multiple language dictionaries at the same time so that Word doesn't recognize the Latin and French as "wrong." Is there any way to provide more "spell checking memory" to Word 2013 so that it can keep track of more words that it does not recognize (my computer has 24 GB of memory)?

Any other suggestions?

Thank you.

You can set the proofing language for these terms as French or Latin. This is character-level formatting so it can definitely be applied to a single word or phrase.
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See Mastering the Spelling Checker.

The best way to do this would probably be to set some character styles for the languages and apply those to the terms. You can also set a style to not check spelling or grammar. I often use such a style for names.

If you define Character Styles for Latin and French, with the relevant proofing language settings for those Styles, applying the Latin and French spell-check settings becomes as simple as selecting the relevant portions of the text and applying the Latin and French Styles.

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]