--- On Sun, 5/1/11, Jean-Francois Nifenecker <jean-francois.nifenec...@laposte.net> wrote:
> *this* is strange. Are you sure you have set the correct > dictionary? Is it listed in the extensions thingy (Tools > /Extensions manager)? If not, you've won the right for a > reinstall... :) The top entry in the extension manager is "English spelling and hyphenation dictionaries and thesaurus 2010.03.16". > This is the auto-complete process at work (Tools / > Autocomplete menu), not the language tool. OK. > What is the language displayed in Format / Character, > Font thumbnail, Language? A-HA! On the working machine (mine), it is "English (USA)". On one of the non-working machines (can't check the other one right now), it is "English (New Zealand)" (notably with no "ABC" and the check mark to the left of it). You are a genius. :) That does lead me to ask a couple of (probably stupid) questions. In Format / Character, what is the difference (meaning in the format of the characters that go into the document) between English (New Zealand) and say English (Australia) (two countries quite close culturally with few if any differences in language use and spelling)? Obviously, there are some differences between the U.S. spelling of certain words, and spelling of the same words in other (English language countries), though I really don't know anything about the differences between Canada spelling and U.K. spelling and South Africa spelling and Australia spelling. So what should I tell the other users to do? 1. Just set the language to English (Australia), which they won't like, but that's too bad? :) 2. Is there actually a New Zealand dictionary for them to download and install? 3. Is there some way of telling the spell checker to use English (Australia) with the document language set to English (New Zealand)? Any one of those will at least get spell check working. Thank you again for your help. Nuzhna -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted