Andrea, I have to take it all back. I'm having the same results you are, so, either it got fixed at some point and I missed it, or there is a special set of circumstances required to cause the problem. Either way, I thank you for your efforts and apologize for wasting your time.
Steve Follow Howell Davidson's Adventures at stevenRculver.com >________________________________ > From: Andrea Pescetti <pesce...@apache.org> >To: qa@openoffice.apache.org >Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2013 6:35 PM >Subject: Re: Introducing Steve Culver > >On 14/01/2013 Steve Culver wrote: >> Thanks for giving that a try Andrea. Now the mystery is even deeper. >> I'm using Windows 7. Might that be the difference? > >If you repeat exactly the three steps I listed below, where does the behavior >of your version of OpenOffice differ? The spellchecker will highlight the >wrong word in red (in the spellchecker window, I mean); does the highlighting >include the period? > >Regards, > Andrea. > >> 1) New Writer document, language set to English >> >> 2) I type "This text contains a wrong worrd. Testing." >> >> 3) I run the spellchecker (F7), it suggests to replace "worrd" with "word", >> I click "Change" and the period is preserved. > > > >
