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Hi All,<br>
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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.<br>
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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?<br>
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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.<br>
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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?<br>
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Thanks in advance. If I manage to solve this myself I will be sure and
post the answer as a reply.<br>
<br>
Meantime... what do we know?<br>
<br>
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