Proofing tools available in Office for Mac

Depending on which language you are using, proofing tools can check spelling or grammar, hyphenate text, and look up words in the thesaurus. You can switch between proofing tools by selecting a different language for your document. See how to check spelling and grammar in a different language.

Office for Mac comes pre-installed with proofing tools

1. To see if proofing tool for your language is available, on the Tools menu, click Language.

   

   Note: Proofing tools in Office for Mac are pre-installed. There are no additional downloads available.

2. See the status next to your language.

   

Here's a complete list of all the languages with the available proofing tool.

Language	Proofing Tools
Afrikaans	Spelling
Arabic	Spelling, Grammar, Thesaurus
Basque	Spelling
Bosnian (Latin)	Spelling
Bulgarian	Spelling
Catalan	Spelling, Thesaurus, Hyphenator
Croatian	Spelling
Czech	Spelling, Thesaurus, Hyphenator
Danish	Spelling, Thesaurus, Hyphenator
Dutch	Spelling, Thesaurus, Hyphenator
English (Australia)	Spelling, Grammar, Thesaurus, Hyphenator
English (Canada)	Spelling, Grammar, Thesaurus, Hyphenator
English (Ireland)	Spelling, Grammar, Thesaurus, Hyphenator
English (United Kingdom)	Spelling, Grammar, Thesaurus, Hyphenator
English (United States)	Spelling, Grammar, Thesaurus, Hyphenator
Estonian	Spelling
Finnish	Spelling
French	Spelling, Thesaurus, Hyphenator
French (Canada)	Spelling, Thesaurus, Hyphenator
Galician	Spelling
German	Spelling, Thesaurus, Hyphenator
German (Austria)	Spelling, Thesaurus, Hyphenator
German (Switzerland)	Spelling, Thesaurus, Hyphenator
Greek	Spelling
Gujarati	Spelling
Hebrew	Spelling, Thesaurus
Hungarian	Spelling
Indonesian	Spelling
isiXhosa	Spelling
isiZulu	Spelling
Italian	Spelling, Thesaurus, Hyphenator
Japanese	Spelling
Kannada	Spelling
Kazakh	Spelling
Kiswahili	Spelling
Latvian	Spelling
Lithuanian	Spelling
Macedonian	Spelling
Malay (Malaysia)	Spelling
Marathi	Spelling
Norwegian (Bokmål)	Spelling, Thesaurus, Hyphenator
Norwegian (Nynorsk)	Spelling, Thesaurus, Hyphenator
Persian	Spelling
Polish	Spelling, Thesaurus, Hyphenator
Portuguese	Spelling, Thesaurus, Hyphenator
Portuguese (Brazil)	Spelling, Thesaurus, Hyphenator
Romanian	Spelling
Russian	Spelling, Thesaurus, Hyphenator
Serbian (Cyrillic)	Spelling
Serbian (Latin)	Spelling
Sesotho sa Leboa	Spelling
Setswana	Spelling
Slovak	Spelling
Spanish	Spelling, Thesaurus, Hyphenator
Swedish	Spelling, Thesaurus, Hyphenator
Tamil	Spelling
Turkish	Spelling, Thesaurus, Hyphenator
Ukrainian	Spelling