Need foreign language dictionaries

Question

In Appleworks there are foreign dictionaries. I cant find these in Pages. Is there a way of using or importing a foreign language dictionary?
I often have to do some work in Spanish or French and would like to have these dictionaries available.
Pages vs. 3.01 was installed when I installed Leopard. I purchased my license via email. Is there something missing when you purchase iwork this way - like dictionaries?
judy

Answer 1

If you want all new documents to use spell checking of another language, you have to go through the following steps, for each template you intend to use.
1. Open a new document with the template you want to use.
2. Open the Styles Drawer (View > Show Styles Drawer).
3. Select the first style in the list. (This is often "Free Form".)
4. Change the language in the inspector as described above.
5. Click on the red triangle to the right of the style name in the Style Drawer, and in the menu that pops up, choose "Redefine Style from Selection".
6. Repeat steps 3-5 for every Paragraph Style in the Style Drawer.
7. Go to File > Save as Template, and choose a good name of the template.
8. If you have only one template you always want to use, you can choose it in Pages > Preferences > General > For New Documents, where you select "Use template:..." and then click on Choose... and choose the template.
Note that you can have several styles in the same document for different languages. You can for example have one style called "French body" and another called "Italian body". You can even associate shortcuts to the styles, in the Styles drawer, so you quickly can change between one language and another.