[plug] Spellchecking in OpenOffice

[Jonathan Young]

On 5/30/2007, "Gavin Chester" <sales at ecosolutions.com.au> wrote:

>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.

That's me!

>Changing to UK English (which I installed with my distro) fixed the problem >instantly.

Excellent.  I'll got take a look tonight.

>You can use your package manager to get the different dictionaries, I think.
>

I wish. ;) Windows XP here.  But I know what the equivalent procedure
will be.

>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.

That sounds handy.  Though mostly my grammar is be pretty good.  (That's
a joke y'all.)

Thanks for the tips.

>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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>> >>