How can I change the spell check and auto-correction language of IE10/Windows8?

Question

Is there any way I can change the spell-check and auto-correct Language of IE10/Windows8? It seems to want me to write Norwegian, but I usually write English...

Solution 1

Check the Control Panel. Which languages do you have installed? If you have only Norwegian, try adding English as well:

You can then switch languages from the language icon in the taskbar.

You can also press ⊞ Win+C to bring up the Charms bar, select Settings / Change PC settings / General and modify the Spelling and Language options as required:

BTW, here's a complete list of supported spellchecking dictionaries and language/locales in IE 10.

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Update: How do you type and spell-check in one language, but use the keyboard layout of another?

The problem with switching the input language is that normally the keyboard layout also changes, which is irritating. Here's what you can do. Say you have a German keyboard layout but normally type in English (input language), and want English spell-check (proofing language) as well.

Add English to the language list and make it your primary language by moving it to the top. Now click the Options link:

Here under Input method you can Add an input method:

So now you can have English as the input/proofing language but German as the input method/keyboard layout. You can subsequently press ⊞ Win+Space to switch between available combinations:

Solution 2

The answer above is missing the most important part: how do you SWITCH languages in IE. After you have installed multiple languages, when you want to switch languages you use either the language bar or the language icon in the taskbar, right by the clock. You just click it and select the right language. All you type after that will be spell checked in the new language.

Comments

[Svish]

Yeah... problem is that switching language also switching keyboard language, unless I've missed something. Which is very annoying, since although I want to write English, I still have a Norwegian keyboard...

[Svish]

The thing is, I really don't want to change the input method. I have one keyboard, a Norwegian one. I just want to change the input language, so that the dumb spell-checker could actually be a bit of use. Change the method gives me a completely different keyboard layout which means most of the keys are not what the label says anymore, which makes it more or less impossible to type. Unless you have memorized the various layouts, which I most certainly have not and will not :p

[thomthom]

Not answering the question. I have a Norwegian keyboard - I want/need Norwegian input. But I want to swap between Norwegian and English spell checking when I write. That language list only swaps UI language and input language.

[thomthom]

Ditto - I have exactly the same problem. The language list just swps UI or input language. None of which is a good solution when you often need to swap between spell checking languages.

[thomthom]

Surely there must be a way to change the language of teh spell checker without changing the input language? Swapping input language just for the spellchecker is just awkward - so is typing anything at length with the on-screen keyboard.

[Karan]

@thomthom: Would you care to review the update and if it helps, take back your downvote?

[thomthom]

Ah! There! Finally! Thank you very very much! It was driving me insane. That was not an intuitive way of setting it up. UX failure I'd say. And I'll off course up vote! :)

[Karan]

@thomthom: Thanks, and yes, they certainly could have made it much more obvious. I don't think this is that uncommon a requirement.

[Chagai Friedlander]

hi, 2020 I can not find these settings anymore, anyone no something about this?