Greetings,
Back when I was attempting to get some useful results using OpenOffice
Writer, I had a number of experiences similar to your present one.
Sometimes the OOo "spellcheck" worked just fine for American English. Other
times it didn't work at all, failing to "redline" obvious misspellings that
I'd purposely introduced. Then other times the spellcheck became
overzealous, so to speak, & indicated that every word in a document was
misspelled! I was quite frustrated w/ the way Writer was working, but I
figured out what was going on. How Writer applies its spellcheck, depends
upon how you open, or initiate, your document! This appears to be a
persistent long-standing bug ("feature"?) in Writer.
I now use MS Windows 7 on my computer, but when I was having the problem
(before I gave up on OpenOffice software) I was using Windows Vista. You
know that, in both Windows 7 & in Windows Vista, you can access a particular
WP document in various ways, &, if you're creating a new document, there are
several options for starting out. I found that Writer doesn't work the same
way in every option, no matter how you set it up when you have a particular
document open. For example, when I was suddenly getting every word in a
document redlined, I traced this to the fact that the Writer software was
applying a German-language dictionary to my document! Sure, everything was
misspelled, since I was writing a document in English! When I changed the
way I opened Writer documents in Vista, the option I chose had, as I
learned, used a spelling dictionary (German) other than the one I had
previously selected (American English, or at least I THOUGHT I had selected
my native language). Another symptom of this dependence of spelling
dictionary on document creation &/or access procedure was the observation
that often particular words, names, & terms that I added to my English
dictionary, suddenly were flagged as misspelled in other documents.
Apparently, when you set your spelling (& other!) defaults, after evoking
the Writer word processor in one way, you can get something entirely
different, if you get to Writer by some other option on your computer.
I hope this report of my personal experience w/ OpenOffice Writer helps you
resolve your problem.
Best wishes,
Anthony J. Rudgers
Orlando, FL
Sept. 17, 2014; 8:42 pm
-----Original Message-----
From: Feral Hassan
Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2014 5:44 AM
To: users@openoffice.apache.org
Subject: Auto Spell Check
Dear Sir / Madam,
Yesterday I opened a document that I have been working on for some time now
and found that, for some reason, every single word (in UK English) has been
underlined in red by the Auto Spell Check. I have gone through the help
instructions and ensured that all settings are set to English (UK), so this
cannot be the problem. I can of course turn the Auto Spell Check off, but
then I won't know if I've spelt anything incorrectly. I even tried opening
a new document to see if it would do the same on that, and it did. I also
tried downloading the latest version of your product, same again.Any ideas
why it is doing this all of a sudden when the day before, having saved my
document, it was fine? It's almost as if it's suddenly basing everything on
a foreign language dictionary.Any assistance for would be much appreciated.
Many thanks,Feral Hassan
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