[plug] Spellchecking in OpenOffice

[Mark Saxon]

Jonathan Young wrote:
> Hi All,
>

Johnathan,

Not sure how much help this will be but my OO v2.03 of Writer nails both 
your miss spellings in less than a second.
I simply cut and paste then from your post and they were corrected 
instantly even though they were in italics.

Thunderbird does not auto correct in italics ..or at least my setup does 
not.

Mark
> 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.ocuments 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
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