- The language setting will not only set the system's display language, but also set up the various spell checkers used in word-processing programs like TextEdit, Pages, and Safari.
- In the Word Options dialog box, click Proofing. Make sure that the Check spelling as you type check box is selected in the When correcting spelling and grammar in Word section. Make sure that all check boxes are cleared in the Exception for section. Method 4: Select language and clear 'Do not check spelling or grammar'.
- An additional step is a language-dependent algorithm for handling morphology. Even for a lightly inflected language like English, the spell-checker will need to consider different forms of the same word, such as plurals, verbal forms, contractions, and possessives. For many other languages, such as those featuring agglutination and more complex.
If the language accessory pack includes proofing tools for that language, the Proofing column shows Installed. If the status is Not installed, click the link to install the proofing tools. Under Choose Display language, you can change the default display and help languages for all your Office applications.
Correcteur Orthographique de Latin
Correttore Ortografico di Latino
Corrector Ortográfico de Latín
Presentation of COL
COL (Correcteur Orthographique de Latin) is a free tool providing assistance to check the spelling of a Latin text. Available for Microsoft Word, LibreOffice, OpenOffice.org and AbiWord, it includes a dictionary of about 400,000 Latin forms (classical and medieval Latin).
To best match the different practices, COL is configurable: the user can select a particular spelling (how to represent diphthongs, vowels u and i...). It works exactly like spellcheckers of other languages: when a word is not in the dictionary, it is underlined in red.
This spellchecker is obviously not intended to be exhaustive, nor it wants to 'normalize' the spelling of Latin. It was created primarily as an aid to save time and facilitate the work of all those who need to understand Latin texts (for the transcription of manuscripts, for example), but also to fix correct Latin texts scanned and processed by OCR, usually with many faults.
In order to get in touch with our software, a good 'How To' written in Latin language can be read here. Note that the Latinists from the Vatican City are using our software since its early releases.
Want to share feedback, problems ? Join us on Facebook! Or may you have any question, please contact us at: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. (important, please put [COL] in your message subject).
This project is commonly led by:
- This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. (An DROUIZIG), Senior Development Engineer.
- This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. (EHESS), PhD, Research Engineer, deals with the Latin word base 'verba'. Marjorie has won the 2013 CNRS Crystal Award.
Important installation notes
Thank you to take into account the following points, countless installation problems which are reported to us concern the points listed below:
- Determine which version of Microsoft Office is mine, especially 32-bit or 64-bit ? read the page here. This is IMPORTANT (or check the screenshot here). Be careful here, it is very common to find 32-bit versions of Microsoft Office 2010, 2013 or 2016 running on 64-bit Windows systems (Win7, Win8 & Win10). In this case you must install the 32-bit version of the Latin proofing pack.
- If you install a 64-bit package instead of a 32-bit package, please uninstall the 2 64-bit programs that have been installed by the package (Latin Spellchecker and Proofing Tools - Latin from the Control Panel) before reinstalling the 32-bit package.
- If Latin does not hold as the editing language in Microsoft Office and if the editing language reverts to your default language, then try to select the language isiXhosa or Xhosa instead of the Latin input: learn more about this problem here. This problem is fixed under Windows 10 as of December 2020, you just need to select the 'Lingua latina' language input in the Windows 10 keyboard settings.
- It could be useful to uninstall old versions of COL from the Control Panel before installing a new one. We have seen cases where old files were not correctly replaced.
- 'SmartScreen' filters: even if the binaries are signed, you may have to confirm the SmartScreen warnings:
Click on « Informations complémentaires » or « More Info » to confirm the installation.
Download the software
Verba
- Download COL 2016 (Verba) - for Microsoft Office 2016 & 2019 - 64-bit
- Download COL 2013 (Verba) - for Microsoft Office 2013 - 64-bit
- Download COL 2010 (Verba) - for Microsoft Office 2010 - 64-bit
- Download COL 2016 (Verba) - for Microsoft Office 2016 & 2019 - 32-bit
- Download COL 2013 (Verba) - for Microsoft Office 2013 - 32-bit
- Download COL 2010 (Verba) - for Microsoft Office 2010 - 32-bit
- Download COL 5.0 (Verba) - for Microsoft Word 2002 (XP), 2003 2007
For Microsoft Office 2011 and 2016 (MacOSX)
- See development web pages
History of the program
Since version COL 2.1.x, it is possible to choose between different spelling options for Latin words. The way Latin words are written depends indeed on local habits, choices made for a particular project, or the scholar's field of study. For instance, in medieval Latin, diphtongues of classical Latin (æ, œ) are replaced with a simple « e », but sometimes they are rendered by two distinct letters (« ae », « oe »). Likewise, some conventions impose to keep the letters j and v, whereas others impose to transcribe them as, respectively, i and u. See the corresponding dialogue box here.
Since version 2.1, an hyphenator suggests how to cut the words at the end of the lines.
Mandatory: it is important that you set/create a user dictionary dedicated for Latin. Use the Microsoft Word interface to do so. Here is a snapshot of a good configuration. The WebEx demonstrations also show how to setup the user dictionary. You will have to run at the command line setLa2K.exe (or LatinConfig.exe /InstallLa /InstallLa2000) if you like to use this new version under Microsoft Office 2000. You can have a look to the messages on our dedicated forum [en] in case of trouble.
May you have any question, please contact us at: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. (important, put [COL2.x] in your message subject). You can use this file as a test to get in touch with the spell checker, or another one here.
WebEx demonstrations
The WebEx demo: to watch a demonstration about how to setup the spell checker under Microsoft Office,
- Download and install WebEx Recorder and Player here (light and free of charge).
- Download the demonstration file (XP + Office 2003 French) here , then double-click on it to launch the demo.
- Download the demonstration file (Vista + Office 2007 French) here, then double-click on it to launch the demo.
- Download the demonstration file (Vista + Office 2010 French) here, then double-click on it to launch the demo.
Version history
- COL Version 5.0 - Bug fixing (user dictionary).
- COL Version 4.0 - MacOS X first support (beta version).
- COL Version 3.1.1 - Latest stable version. Better handling of enclitics.
- COL Version 3.1 - Improved handling of V uppercase.
- COL Version 3.0 - Verba+ word list base integration.
- COL Version 2.6 - Latest stable version. Handled -ve enclitic.
- COL Version 2.5.2 - Fixed problem with first uppercase on some words (ex. Latina) followed by -que enclitic.
- COL Version 2.5.1 - Improved speed of program.
- COL Version 2.5.0 - Handled -ne enclitic.
- COL Version 2.4.2 - Prevent potential crash and file corruption provoked by misformatted user dictionaries.
- COL Version 2.4.1 - Fixed problem with words containing uppercase(s) followed by -que enclitic.
- COL Version 2.4 - Improved support of medieval Latin variations.
- COL Version 2.3.2 - Fixed second problem with user dictionary under Word 2007, accept Arabic and Roman numerals (from I to MMMCMXCIX).
- COL Version 2.3.1 - Fixed problem with user dictionary under Word 2007.
- COL Version 2.3 - Added ability to filter accented vowels (acute accents).
- COL Version 2.2.2 - Fixed problem with words that include several uppercases (ex. LatinA).
- COL Version 2.2.1 - Fixed problem with first uppercase on some words (ex. Latina).
- COL Version 2.2 - Latest stable version.
- COL Version 2.1.6 - Fixed little problem with the hyphenator and installation problem under Office 2000.
- COL Version 2.1.5 - Fixed issue with option loading under Windows Vista.
- COL Version 2.1.4 - Speed up dictionary load again and bug fixing.
- COL Version 2.1.3 - Speed up dictionary load.
- COL Version 2.1.2 - Fixed issue when used simultaneously with other spell checkers (problem was there since version 2.0).
- COL Version 2.1.1 - Fixed potential crash with the user dictionary (problem was there since version 2.0).
- COL Version 2.1 - Added first version of hyphenator.
- COL Version 2.0.1 - Added ability to filter accented vowels.
- COL Version 2.0 - 12 variant dictionaries supported.
Applies to Office 2004 and Office 2008
Microsoft lists supported languages in Word Help for Office 2008 (topic: 'About proofing tools', online help must be active) and Office 2004 (topic: 'About Microsoft proofing tools'). All versions of Office should come with the same assortment of languages, whether retail standard, retail home and student, or a volume license. Note: Office does not support right-to-left languages. In addition, you cannot change the user interface (UI) language of menus, etc, in Office.
If the language you need is listed as supported, see Check Spelling in a Different Language for instructions on installing and using the proofing tools.
- Office 2008 Languages (external link to Word Online Help) [Lene Fredborg, 11-Feb-2018: Removed outdated link to http://www.microsoft.com/Mac/help.mspx?clr=99-4-0&srcid=987fc20a-b6bd-49db-8ba1-6a263a924b411033&ep=9&target=6474a4a6-9d3e-4bde-a255-fb9286ef5d101033&CTT=RelatedLink&usid=1947081e-0474-4df5-9aab-daca1f30c55f
- Office 2004 Languages (unofficial list below)
Note that 'Dictionary' is used in Office 2004 as a generic term for a proofing file. Spelling is the most basic form of proofing, so the languages listed here can all be spellchecked. Grammar checking is very limited—you will only see grammar files for a few languages. MacOffice will only offer actual definitions for English; if you want definitions for any other language, you will need a third-party tool. Word 2004 includes proofing tools for more languages than Word X did, most notably Portuguese and Brazilian Portuguese.
My Language Isn't Supported! What Now?
One possible, partial, fix: if you can download a dictionary from Aspell (or elsewhere), you may be able to load it as a custom dictionary into Word. See Word Help on creating a custom dictionary and follow it exactly. Copy the words from the Aspell dictionary into a Word custom dictionary. In this case, you probably want to set the language for the custom dictionary. Then when you tag your text as, say, Polish, Word should use the Polish custom dictionary. This approach also works well for scientific/medical dictionaries, or other specialized lexicons.
NOTE: Reports on this would be appreciated, preferably on the newsgroup. Using custom dictionaries to support additional languages is currently untested—the main issue is that the custom dictionary may be too large for Word to handle. You can create multiple custom dictionaries with different names to address this issue. If you begin to see problems, quitting Word and trashing the custom dictionary should fix them.
Otherwise, you will need to go to third-party tools. If it isn't on the installation CD, MS doesn't offer it for the Mac. SpellCatcher X is a well-known program that will integrate with Word (offering many features beyond just proofing), but not the only one. CocoAspell can be used to extend the OS language capabilities, but that route would require you to do your spell-checking in TextEdit or another word processor that leans on the OS features.
Search the archives of the microsoft.public.mac.office.word [Lene Fredborg, 11-Feb-2018: Removed outdated link to http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.mac.office.word] newsgroup to see what others have suggested for various languages. Also, look for webpages, newsgroups, listservs, or online forums specific to Mac users who speak the language you want—those people are likely to know the best workarounds and alternatives.
Be sure to let MS know that you want a language supported by using Help | Send Feedback in Word (or visit the feedback website [Lene Fredborg, 11-Feb-2018: Removed outdated link to http://www.microsoft.com/Mac/suggestions.mspx]). Offer all information that might let the MacBU understand what market is going to buy Word because it supports a particular language—such decisions are made on the basis of cost versus expected profit, so try to convince them supporting a language will earn them more money.
Unicode, Right-to-left, etc
Slovenian Language Spell Checker Word For Mac 2011 To Excel Mail Merge
Language support involves two dimensions—being able to type in a language, and being able to proof a language (that is, check spelling and grammar for it, like proofreading). This article concentrates on proofing. However, you should be aware that although Office is mostly Unicode-compliant so that you can type a great range of characters and diacritical marks, OFFICE DOES NOT SUPPORT RIGHT-TO-LEFT LANGUAGES such as Arabic, Hebrew, etc . Please search the archives of the microsoft.public.mac.office.word newsgroup for more information on entering characters and diacritical marks for various languages, and for alternatives that do support right-to-left languages. Mellel and Nisus Writer are the most frequently mentioned alternatives.
Be sure to let MS know that you want a language supported by using Help | Send Feedback in Word (or visit the feedback website [Lene Fredborg, 11-Feb-2018: Removed outdated link to http://www.microsoft.com/Mac/suggestions.mspx]). Offer all information that might let the MacBU understand what market is going to buy Word because it supports a particular language—such decisions are made on the basis of cost versus expected profit, so try to convince them supporting a language will earn them more money.
Proofing Tools Shipped with Office 2004
The information here is an unofficial list based on one person's experience doing a custom installation that included all available proofing tools. Minor variations on this list have been reported, but it seems to be substantially accurate.
These are the proofing files that were installed in Applications/Microsoft Office 2004/Shared Applications/Proofing Tools/.
- Aus English Hyph Dictionary
- Australian Spelling Dictionary
- Bokmal Spelling
- Brazilian Hyph Dictionary
- Brazilian Hyphenation
- Brazilian Spelling
- Brazilian Spelling Dictionary
- Brazilian Thesaurus
- Brazilian Thesaurus Dictionary
- Danish Dictionary
- Danish Hyphenation
- Danish Hyphenation Dictionary
- Danish Spelling
- Danish Thesaurus Dictionary
- Danish Thesaurus3
- Dutch Hyphenation Dictionary
- Dutch Spelling Dictionary
- Dutch Thesaurus Dictionary
- English (US) Word Forms
- English Grammar
- English Grammar Dictionary
- English Hyphenation
- English Spelling
- English Thesaurus
- Finnish Dictionary
- Finnish Hyphenation
- Finnish Hyphenation Dictionary
- Finnish Spelling
- Finnish Thesaurus Dictionary
- Finnish Thesaurus3
- French Dictionary1
- French Dictionary2
- French Grammar
- French Grammar Dictionary1
- French Grammar Dictionary2
- French Grammar Help
- French Grammar Parameter
- French Grammar Reference
- French Hyphen Dictionary
- French Hyphenation
- French Spelling
- French Thesaurus
- French Thesaurus Dictionary
- German Dictionary (post-reform)
- German Dictionary (pre-reform)
- German Grammar
- German Grammar Dictionary
- German Hyph Dict (post-reform)
- German Hyph Dict (pre-reform)
- German Hyphenation
- German Spelling
- German Thes Dict (post-reform)
- German Thes Dict (pre-reform)
- German Thesaurus
- Italian Grammar
- Italian Grammar Dict
- Italian Hyphenation
- Italian Hyphenation Dict
- Italian Spelling Dict
- Italian Spelling3
- Italian Thesaurus
- Italian Thesaurus Dict
- Japanese Proofing
- Japanese Proofing Dictionary
- NL Hyphenation Carbon
- NL Spelling Carbon
- NL Thesaurus Carbon
- Norwegian BOK Dictionary
- Norwegian BOK Hyph Dictionary
- Norwegian BOK Hyphenation
- Norwegian BOK Thes Dict
- Norwegian BOK Thesaurus3
- Norwegian NYN Dictionary
- Norwegian NYN Hyph Dictionary
- Norwegian NYN Hyphenation
- Nynorsk Spelling
- Portuguese Hyphation Dictionary
- Portuguese Hyphenation
- Portuguese Spelling
- Portuguese Spelling Dictionary
- Portuguese Thesaurus
- Portuguese Thesaurus Dictionary
- Spanish Dictionary
- Spanish Hyphen Dictionary
- Spanish Hyphenation
- Spanish Spelling3
- Spanish Thesaurus
- Spanish Thesaurus Dict
- Spanish Thesaurus Dict 2
- Swedish Dictionary
- Swedish Grammar
- Swedish Grammar Dictionary
- Swedish Hyphenation
- Swedish Hyphenation Dictionary
- Swedish Spelling3
- Swedish Thesaurus Dictionary
- Swedish Thesaurus3
- UK English Thesaurus
- US English Hyph Dictionary
- US English Spelling Dictionary
- US English Thesaurus
Proofing Tools Shipped with Office 2008
Word For Mac 2011 Reviews
These are the proofing files that were installed in Applications/Microsoft Office 2008/Office/Shared Applications/Proofing Tools (note the change of location from Office 2004).
- BokmalHyphenation.proofingtool
- BokmalSpeller.proofingtool
- BokmalThesaurus.proofingtool
- BrazilianHyphenation.proofingtool
- BrazilianSpeller.proofingtool
- BrazilianThesaurus.proofingtool
- DanishHyphenation.proofingtool
- DanishSpeller.proofingtool
- DanishThesaurus.proofingtool
- DutchHyphenation.proofingtool
- DutchSpeller.proofingtool
- DutchThesaurus.proofingtool
- EnglishGrammar.proofingtool
- EnglishHyphenation.proofingtool
- EnglishSpeller.proofingtool
- EnglishThesaurus.proofingtool
- EnglishWordForms.lexicon
- FinnishHyphenation.proofingtool
- FinnishSpeller.proofingtool
- FinnishThesaurus.proofingtool
- FrenchGrammar.proofingtool
- FrenchHyphenation.proofingtool
- FrenchSpeller.proofingtool
- FrenchThesaurus.proofingtool
- GermanGrammar.proofingtool
- GermanHyphenation.proofingtool
- GermanSpeller.proofingtool
- GermanThesaurus.proofingtool
- ItalianGrammar.proofingtool
- ItalianHyphenation.proofingtool
- ItalianSpeller.proofingtool
- ItalianThesaurus.proofingtool
- JapaneseProofing.proofingtool
- NynorskHyphenation.proofingtool
- NynorskSpeller.proofingtool
- PortugueseHyphenation.proofingtool
- PortugueseSpeller.proofingtool
- PortugueseThesaurus.proofingtool
- SpanishHyphenation.proofingtool
- SpanishSpeller.proofingtool
- SpanishThesaurus.proofingtool
- SwedishGrammar.proofingtool
- SwedishHyphenation.proofingtool
- SwedishSpeller.proofingtool
- SwedishThesaurus.proofingtool