Forwarding your mail to users@openoffice.org where lots of experts hang out, since I haven't actually gotten OOo210 installed on Windows. nor Linxu either. :( For some reason, it doesn't want to install on my Debian Sid installation. It's probably a personal problem and I'll work it out after the holidays.
In the meantime, some ideas, inline, below: 1. My experience, for what it's worth, is that remove completely and reinstall sometimes resolves this sort of thing. It shouldn't happen but sometimes it does, especially if there were hidden issues with your old install. On Wednesday, 20 December 2006 00:00, you wrote: > I was advised you are very well knowledgeable on OpenOffice, and you can > assist me if you have time. As well, I registered at OOoForum.org Forum, but > I can get on today. Please help or refer me to someone who can (forward). I > am Buzz at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Good idea. Also a good idea to subscribe to the "users" list: http://support.openoffice.org/index.html and check here: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Dictionaries (it is down for me right now, but should be up quickly.) > I removed OO 2.0 and installed OO 2.1 yesterday. As a result, the spellcheck in WRITER does not work. > > I took a document previously composed with OO 2.0 and corrupted several > words to test spellcheck. TOOLS>SPELLCHECK 2 windows opened. Larger > window was "Spell check: ()" Smaller window was "Continue checking at > beginning of document?" I clicked "next". Then, response in small window > was "The spellcheck is complete" --- Didn't find misspelled words. Remember: All characters have Language property. Highlight some text. Right-click > Character > Font > Language Choose a language that has a check mark, which means that there is a dictionary installed in dictionary.lst. If no dict is installed, it won't check. On the off-chance that your en_US dict got wiped, check here: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Dictionaries (it is down for me right now, but should be up quickly.) > I did as suggested by forum > > Tools>Options>Languages Settings > Languages A number of languages checked > with abc (including Latvian and English-UK), but not English-USA THEN Unusual, to say the least. The English US seems to come with OOo before all else. But maybe something happened in your install? > File>Wizards>Install new dictionaries. Chose English-USA for spellcheck, > thesaurus, and hyphenating. Spell Check still did not work. English-USA > still had no check mark beside it when this (Tools>Options>Languages > Settings > Languages) done again. Thesaurus is okay. > > I have done all I can, but can't get spell check to work or to get > English-USA with check abc > > Can you help me solve this problem yourself? If not, can you forward my > email to someone who is an expert? > > Thanks in advance! Hope that helps. Keep trying and it will get fixed. There are no insurmountable problems with hardware and software, just difficult ones. saludos, [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
