Configuring Spell Check

Selecting the spell check option is a good practice to ensure that the translated content is of high quality. Spell check is supported in Microsoft Office and Hunspell.

To enable or disable spell check go to Preferences and then:

  1. Click Spellchecker.

    The Translation Preferences for Spellchecker options appear. If this is a new project, the default, Enable Spell Checking, is enabled.

  2. Select or deselect Enable Spell Checking.
  3. If Check for spelling errors as you type is selected, choose one of the following:
    • Microsoft Office

        Note:

      Microsoft Office must be installed on your computer.

    • Hunspell

        Note:

      Hunspell dictionaries are available for the following languages. Any of these languages can be installed by going to Help > Wordfast 4 Update, choosing the required language JAR and clicking Update.

      Table 1.

      Language

      Shortcode

      Language

      Shortcode

      Arabic

      AR

      Korean (South Korea)

      KO-KR

      Basque (Basque)

      EU-ES

      Latvian (Latvia)

      LV-LV

      Bosnian (Bosnia)

      BS-BA

      Lithuanian (Lithuania)

      LT-LT

      Bulgarian (Bulgaria)

      BG-BG

      Norwegian (Bokmål Norway)

      NB-NO

      Catalan (Catalan)

      CA-ES

      Norwegian (Nynorsk Norway)

      NN-NO

      Croatian (Croatia)

      HR-HR

      Polish (Poland)

      PL-PL

      Czech (Czech Republic)

      CS-CZ

      Portuguese (Brazil)

      PT-BR

      Danish (Denmark)

      DA-DK

      Portuguese (Portugal)

      PT-PT

       

      NL-NL

      Romanian (Romania)

      RO-RO

      English (Canada)

      EN-CA

      Russian (Russia)

      RU-RU

      English (United Kingdom)

      EN-GB

      Scottish Gaelic (United Kingdom)

      GD-GB

      English (United States)

      EN-US

      Serbian (Serbia)

      SR-RS

      Estonian (Estonia)

      ET-EE

      Slovak (Slovakia)

      SK-SK

      Farsi (Iran)

      FA-IR

      Slovenian (Slovenia)

      SL-SI

      Finnish (Finland)

      FI-FI

      Spanish (Mexico)

      ES-MX

      French (Canada)

      FR-CA

      Spanish (Spain)

      ES-ES

      French (France)

      FR-FR

      Swedish (Sweden)

      SV-SE

      Galician (Spain)

      GL-ES

      Swahili (Kenya)

      SW-KE

      German (Germany)

      DE-DE

      Tagalog (Philippines)

      TL-PH

      Greek (Greece)

      EL-GR

      Thai (Thailand)

      TH-TH

      Hebrew (Israel)

      HB-IL

      Turkish (Turkey)

      TR-TR

      Hindi (India)

      HI-IN

      Ukrainian (Ukraine)

      UK-UA

      Hungarian (Hungary)

      HU-HU

      Urdu

      UR

      Italian (Italy)

      IT-IT

      Vietnamese (Vietnam)

      VI-VN

      Irish (Ireland)

      GA-IE

      Welsh (United Kingdom)

      CY-GB

      Kazakh (Kazakhstan)

      KK-KZ

      Zulu (South Africa)

      ZU-ZA

  4. Click OK to save the settings.
  Note:

If spell checking is disabled, all spelling preferences are cleared. To select spelling preferences, select Enable Spell Checking.