Thanks for that but I have checked all the language settings and have never been able to find anything unusual in the affected file which was originally created in OO and has been edited with LO, I agree it is a brute force technique but in the end it seemed easier than solving the basic problem, the amount of formatting involved was very small. It was in a file first created nearly 20 years ago and which I update very occasionally it has been bugging me for years and I finally got round to my solution only this week
On Thu, 10 Nov 2022, at 16:38, Brian Barker wrote: > At 16:15 10/11/2022 +0000, Robin Lord wrote: >>Does the spell checker work with other files, i have had a single >>file that did not spell check. ... the only solution i could find >>was to cut and paste all the text into notepad and grin there cut >>and paste it back into a new document in OO ... > > That's almost certainly a brute-force technique for a problem which > could have been solved more simply - and without damaging the > existing formatting, all of which you would lose using your method. > > What's likely here is that your text was either marked as being in > some language (or language variant) for which you did not have a > spelling dictionary installed or marked "None (Do not check > spelling)". You can resolve the problem simply by correcting the > language setting appropriately. Your journey into and out of Notepad, > which does not recognise attributes such as language, will have > removed the setting, and the text will have assumed the default > language of your new document. > > Note that this problem can be caused by pasting material in from > another source, where the language property (or the "None" setting) > may be carried over. You can avoid this by using Edit | Paste > Special.. (or Ctrl+Shift+V) instead of ordinary Paste and choosing > "Unformatted text" in the Paste Special dialogue. That way, the > pasted material inherits the language property of surrounding text. > > I trust this helps. > > Brian Barker > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org -- Best Regards Robin --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
