Configure and Enable Spellchecker

Spellchecker preferences control the interaction between the application and Microsoft Office, Hunspell, or Bing. The Hunspell option requires software installation on your computer.

To configure and enable Spellchecker:

On the Sidebar, select the Preferences icon .
Select Spellchecker in the General Preferences group.

Select Enable Spellchecking to activate the spellchecker in TXLF Editor. This option is selected by default, and makes the Spellcheck File option available on the Review tab in TXLF Editor. You need to configure the spellchecker for Microsoft Office, Hunspell, or Bing language engines. Hunspell is selected by default, and comes with several languages already preset: English, German, French, and Spanish.

Alert:

Clear Enable Spellchecking to disable the spellchecker. Disabling the spellchecker clears all spellchecker preferences. You must reconfigure your preferences the next time you enable Spellchecker.

Note:

Bing requires a paid subscription.

Note:

To install additional Hunspell languages, select on the Sidebar, then select Update Wordfast Pro. Select Check For Updates. Select the languages to update, then select Update. You will then need to restart the application. Hunspell is available for the following languages.

Language	Code	Language	Code
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	Malaysian (Malaysia)	MS-MY
Catalan (Catalan)	CA-ES	Norwegian (Bokmål Norway)	NB-NO
Croatian (Croatia)	HR-HR	Norwegian (Nynorsk Norway)	NN-NO
Czech (Czech Republic)	CS-CZ	Polish (Poland)	PL-PL
Danish (Denmark)	DA-DK	Portuguese (Brazil)	PT-BR
Dutch (Netherlands)	NL-NL	Portuguese (Portugal)	PT-PT
English (Canada)	EN-CA	Romanian (Romania)	RO-RO
English (United Kingdom)	EN-GB	Russian (Russia)	RU-RU
English (United States)	EN-US	Scottish Gaelic (United Kingdom)	GD-GB
Estonian (Estonia)	ET-EE	Serbian (Serbia)	SR-RS
Farsi (Iran)	FA-IR	Slovak (Slovakia)	SK-SK
Finnish (Finland)	FI-FI	Slovenian (Slovenia)	SL-SI
French (Canada)	FR-CA	Spanish (Mexico)	ES-MX
French (France)	FR-FR	Spanish (Spain)	ES-ES
Galician (Spain)	GL-ES	Swedish (Sweden)	SV-SE
German (Germany)	DE-DE	Swahili (Kenya)	SW-KE
Greek (Greece)	EL-GR	Tagalog (Philippines)	TL-PH
Hebrew (Israel)	HB-IL	Thai (Thailand)	TH-TH
Hindi (India)	HI-IN	Turkish (Turkey)	TR-TR
Hungarian (Hungary)	HU-HU	Ukrainian (Ukraine)	UK-UA
Indonesian (Indonesia)	ID-ID	Urdu	UR
Irish (Ireland)	GA-IE	Vietnamese (Vietnam)	VI-VN
Italian (Italy)	IT-IT	Welsh (United Kingdom)	CY-GB
Japanese (Japan)	JA-JP	Zulu (South Africa)	ZU-ZA
Kazakh (Kazakhstan)	KK-KZ

Select Check for spelling errors as you type to auto-check text as you type it into TXLF Editor.
Select OK to save your spellchecker configuration.