[plug] Spellchecking in OpenOffice

[Jonathan Young]

Hi All,

At home I use OpenOffice.org 2.0 as an affordable alternative to 
Microsoft's Office Suite.  It does the job quite nicely and as an IT 
professional it is great to have experience in both suites to pass on to 
my clients.  I take documents home sometimes, work on them from there 
and email them back to work.  The compatibility OpenOffice provides is 
excellent and the interface, as most can attest, is almost identical.

However, I have to say that Word consistently does a better job of 
correcting my spelling than Writer does.  What gives?  I am generally 
pretty good in the grammar and spelling departments so it doesn't worry 
me too much.  I also proof read my work - which helps!  I would really 
like to improve Writers spell checking ability though.  Is it a matter 
of turning on some extra options that are off by default or is there 
more to it than that?

My quick work around is to cut and paste a section of text into 
Thunderbird, correct it and then drop it back into my document, but 
seriously... shouldn't Writer be able to handle this.  We're talking 
about really basic misspellings.  For instance, Writer will let me get 
away with "experence" and "instuctions" while Thunderbird is flagging 
those two instances already.  Apart from the real basics, it just 
doesn't seem to be paying attention.  I have the Australian English 
language options selected.

I have checked through the help and options, but I am yet to search 
online.  Admittedly I am looking for the quick fix, but I have better 
things to do (like writing documents and checking the actual content!) 
than go hunting for the solution online.  Anyone else come across this 
problem or the solution?

Thanks in advance.  If I manage to solve this myself I will be sure and 
post the answer as a reply.

Meantime... what do we know?

-- 
Jonathan Young
Director of PC-PHIX
jonathan at pcphix.com

Phone: 0410 455 674
Web: http://www.pcphix.com/

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