[plug] Spellchecking in OpenOffice

[Jonathan Young]

On 5/30/2007, "Arie Hol" <arie99 at ozemail.com.au> wrote:

>On 30 May 2007 at 1:01, Jonathan Young wrote:
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>> 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.
>>
>
>If your spell checker is missing words like the examples you quoted - I
>would say that there are spelling errors in your dictionary file - maybe
>someone has inadvertently "added" the misspelt words to your dictionary.
>
>I would suggest that you try an "edit" of your dictionary file to
>remove/correct the misspelt words.

Actually, it's not correcting anything at all so I will have to check
what dictionary is installed.  I certainly haven't added any misspelled
words to the dictionary - and don't intend to!  I'll have a look at it
tonight.

Thanks


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