On Friday 22 November 2002 22:05, Malcolm Candlish wrote: > I think we have cracked it! On the Mandrake 9.0 installation disk > are some 'myspell' files which when installed enable the Spell > Checker. > > 1.Go to Mandrake Control Centre and click on Add Software. > 2.Click Workstation and then openoffice. You will see myspell for > different languages, I chose myspell-en_GB. > 3.Click install Software and close Mandrake Control Centre. > 4.Open openoffice writer. Click Tools> options> Language Setting> > Writing Aids> Select Language Edit> tick myspell spelling, then > ok.
I have myspell and several languages loaded, but no amount of tinkering with the options will get the spellcheck to work - it just flashes through the document and gives me a dialog box saying that all is OK. Oh well, one more reason to boot back into windows :-(
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