[plug] Spellchecking in OpenOffice

[Gavin Chester]

On Wed, 2007-05-30 at 08:28 +0800, Jonathan Young wrote:
> Without sounding too stupid (hopefully) what should I be looking for to
> confirm that it is installed and active?

I can't directly answer that, but know that Daniel hit nail on the head.
I had the same problem with my version of OO.o (2.0.x). I checked and
rechecked that all settings were correct and the "check spelling while
you type" box was ticked, etc, etc. Then one day I saw that even though
I could have the Aussie English as my system-wide option it couldn't
find any dictionary ... so no spell checking. Changing to UK English
(which I installed with my distro) fixed the problem instantly. You can
use your package manager to get the different dictionaries, I think.

BTW: there is a new java app that works as a plugin to do grammar
checking for OO.o. Read about it in Linux Mag.com. Can't remember the
url but google will help. Mixed effectiveness, apparently.

Gavin 

> On 5/29/2007, "Daniel Pearson (Flashware Solutions)"
> <daniel at flashware.net> wrote:
> 
> >Have you got the right dictionary installed? (just a thought, have to
> >start simple!)
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> >Jonathan Young wrote:
> >> Alex Polglaze wrote:
> >>> Mark Saxon wrote:
> >>>> Jonathan Young wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> 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.
> >>> My set-up did too.
> >>>
> >>> What I have noticed, however, is that if you let an error go through
> >>> inadvertently, it seems to remember that as an alternative until at
> >>> least the next re-boot.
> >>>
> >>> Alex
> >> Interesting.  Definitely not the case here and so far no solution from
> >> my end.  I should mention (and banish myself to off-topic in the
> >> process) that this on my Windows XP installation.
> >>
> >> However, it is a default installation OO and I wouldn't have expected
> >> the problem to be platform specific necessarily.  It is doing very
> >> little spell check at all right now...
> >>
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