Spell Check for two languages

[Matthias_Hobi]

Hi,

Following problem: I have several large powerpoint presentations. Text
is written in Englisch and German, on the slides as well as in the
notes. The default language is German, but Englisch (U.S.) Keyboard is
installed, too. The writers of these presentations obviously did not
spell check the documents, so this is to be done now.
The problem is: the writers also did not specify directly what language
in what textbox is used, so Powerpoint checks according to the given
language, which is German. When changing the spell check to English,
German text is marked as wrongly spelled.

I'd like to know, whether there is a way to spell check the whole
document (slides and notes) using English and German at the same time
without manually setting each textboxes language. So basically I would
like a spell check as in MS Word: if the spell checker finds German
text, it is checked with the German rules, if the spell checker finds
English text, it checks with English rules (no matter what language id
or whatever it finds for the checkbox) - on the slides as well as in
the notes.

Anybody have a good idea?
Thanks
Matt

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

document (slides and notes) using English and German at the same time
without manually setting each textboxes language. So basically I would
like a spell check as in MS Word: if the spell checker finds German
text, it is checked with the German rules, if the spell checker finds
English text, it checks with English rules (no matter what language id
or whatever it finds for the checkbox) - on the slides as well as in
the notes.

If I remember right, Word looks at the text itself and tries to work out what
language it's written in. PowerPoint doesn't do this.

If all the text is in placeholders, you could save it from PPT as an outline
and open it in Word for spellchecking, perhaps.