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
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.
See the status next to your language.
Proofreading Programs For Mac
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, Grammar, Thesaurus, Hyphenator |
Dutch | Spelling, Grammar, 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, Grammar, Thesaurus, Hyphenator |
French | Spelling, Grammar, Thesaurus, Hyphenator |
French (Canada) | Spelling, Grammar, Thesaurus, Hyphenator |
Galician | Spelling |
German | Spelling, Grammar, Thesaurus, Hyphenator |
German (Austria) | Spelling, Grammar, Thesaurus, Hyphenator |
German (Switzerland) | Spelling, Grammar, Thesaurus, Hyphenator |
Greek | Spelling |
Gujarati | Spelling |
Hebrew | Spelling, Thesaurus |
Hungarian | Spelling |
Indonesian | Spelling |
isiXhosa | Spelling |
isiZulu | Spelling |
Italian | Spelling, Grammar, Thesaurus, Hyphenator |
Japanese | Grammar |
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, Grammar, Thesaurus, Hyphenator |
Portuguese (Brazil) | Spelling, Grammar, Thesaurus, Hyphenator |
Romanian | Spelling |
Russian | Spelling, Thesaurus, Hyphenator |
Serbian (Cyrillic) | Spelling |
Serbian (Latin) | Spelling |
Sesotho sa Leboa | Spelling |
Setswana | Spelling |
Slovak | Spelling |
Spanish | Spelling, Grammar, Thesaurus, Hyphenator |
Swedish | Spelling, Grammar, Thesaurus, Hyphenator |
Tamil | Spelling |
Turkish | Spelling, Thesaurus, Hyphenator |
Ukrainian | Spelling |
Proofreading Software
Proofreading software is the best alternative for the manual proof-readers who might have least accuracy and consume more time as well. Well, the proofreading tools are way much cheaper than their price tags and some are even available for free of cost. Grammarly is an automated proofreading and grammar checking tool. Grammarly uses world's most accurate grammar checking technology to find mistakes in your writing and then provides straight-to-the-point explanations and suggestions for improvement.