LanguageTool on LibreOffice: Quick guide for its configuration
If you are a person who constantly writes or drafts documents or any kind of writing (personal, educational or work) about any local or online office tool, surely you make use of some native or third-party functions to maintain your spelling and writing as correct and understandable as possible.
In the case of local tools like LibreOffice spell checker extensions, dictionaries and more are often used. While, in Web Browsers and Online Applications we usually use our own and third-party plug-ins. Being, an emblematic in this area Language Tool, which by the way, recently can be implemented on some desktop office Suites. Therefore, today we will quickly and concisely address how to configure and use "LanguageTool on LibreOffice".
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What is LanguageTool?
For those who don't know or don't use it yet, Language Tool, it is worth noting that it is according to its own Official website following:
It is a plugin for web browsers that works as an efficient and fast spelling, grammar and style checker, both for Spanish/Castilian, Catalan/Valencian, English and 30 other languages. In addition, its basic functions are open source.
How to configure and use LanguageTool on top of LibreOffice?
For our particular case, that is, to use LanguageTool on LibreOffice free of charge, quickly and easily, we have carried out the following steps that we will show below following your official integration guide between the two and without the need to register on your platform and subscribe to any paid service:
- We run our application LibreOffice 7.4.X or higher.
- In the “Tools” options menu we select the “Options” option.
- Next, in the new pop-up screen, locate and click on "Language Settings / LanguageTool Server". Then, we press the checkbox called “Activate LanguageTool” for its activation.
- Once this step is done, we copy and paste the following URL “https://api.languagetool.org/v2” on the “Base URL” field. Then click on the "OK" button.
- Next, we return to the LibreOffice Tool Options screen, but on the “Writing help” option and in the options box called “Available language modules” we select the new available option called “LanguageTool remote grammar checker”. Then click on the "OK" button.
- Finally, we go back to the Tools Menu, and we validate that the "Automatic spell check" option is active, and if it is not, we must activate it. At this point, we recommend closing and opening LibreOffice again and testing that our worked text or document is already checked and corrected by LanguageTool.
Note: Implementing LanguageTool on top of LibreOffice is just a connection between the remote LanguageTool server and the local LibreOffice application. That is why, a stable and fast Internet connection is needed for it to work optimally. Also, LibreOffice is required to be a version equal to and higher than 7.4.X.
Summary
In short, we believe that "LanguageTool on LibreOffice" It is a great combination to allow us to write more and better, quickly and easily. However, whether you are already a user of LanguageTool on Web Browsers or already have it running on LibreOffice, OpenOffice, MS Word or Google Docs, we invite you to tell us about your experience with it or both, via comments for everyone's knowledge.
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