Spelling, AutoCorrect, and Reference Tools: Setting Proofing Language for Text in PowerPoint

Created: Tuesday, January 4, 2022, posted by Geetesh at 12:13 pm

Updated: Thursday, September 8, 2022 at 11:58 am

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Do you have a presentation that contains text that needs to be spell-checked in more than one language? Or do you and your client or colleague work with different localized versions of Microsoft PowerPoint? It may be that you use English (US) and color is a perfectly valid spelling, but someone else in another part of the world uses English (UK) and their spell checker suggests that the word color be changed to colour.

To learn more, choose your version of PowerPoint. If we do not have a tutorial for your version of PowerPoint, explore the version closest to the one you use.

Microsoft Windows

Setting Proofing Language for Text in PowerPoint 365

Setting Proofing Language for Text in PowerPoint 2013

Setting Proofing Language for Text in PowerPoint 2010

Apple Mac

Setting Proofing Language for Text in PowerPoint 2011

Setting Proofing Language for Text in PowerPoint

Tutorial Code: 05 08 19
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