Spell checking a document with multiple languages

[formosaman]

Using Word (Mac) 2001

I have a document (80,000 words) that is written in both English an
Italian (mainly English), and I want to be able to spellcheck in bot
languages.*

Because the English and Italian are intermixed it would be impossible t
go through and select the appropriate dictionary language setting fo
each. So I had the idea of setting everything to English but then addin
the Italian dictionary as the custom dictionary. However, when I try t
select the Italian dictionary (Applications/Microsoft Offic
2011/Office/Shared Applications/Proofing Tools/Italia
Speller.proofingtool) in the preferences it won't let me. Is that th
correct file or what else can I do?

Thanks very much for your help

 

[Peter T. Daniels]

It seems reasonable to me that if no text is marked "Italian," then
Word won't make available the Italian proofing tools.

It wouldn't be "impossible" to mark all the Italian passages Italian.
It might be tedious, though.

 

[Stefan Blom]

To learn about custom dictionaries, take a look at
http://wordfaqs.mvps.org/MasterSpellCheck.htm#CustomDicProbs.