Greg Knight wrote:
> I have been using Open Office writer for only a short period of time and
enjoy using it, but there were a few issues I thought were minor but still
important to me. The first is the spell/ grammatical check. I know there is
a spell check, but is there a grammatical check due out for writer?
There is no official grammar checking yet . However a third party add-on
is available at http://www.danielnaber.de/languagetool .
Is there
a place for spell checker updates?
Open Writer and select Files -> Wizards -> Install New Dictionaries...
to install (or reinstall_ the most up-to-date versions of any
dictionaries you want.
I know when I type hell4o, it doesn't
show it as a misspelled word.
Check Tools -> Options -> Language Settings -> Writing Aids. In the
Options selection list you will find "Check words with numbers" which
defaults to be unselected which what is generally wanted. Words
containing numbers are generally special codes, acronyms and so forth.
You can set this on if you want.
My second thought was if I were to migrate 40
users to Open Office from Word, (wash my mouth for even suggesting this) is
there a way to dumb down Writer to match the inferior quality of Word so
that people can transparently save their documents as Word docs without
risking formatting issues? I thought of this since there are so many people
in the world who have taken on Word and not Open Office... yet.
Exact translation between OpenOffice and MS-Word, either way, often
results in formatting differences.
This is also true between Word Perfect and MS Word, Word Perfect and
Open Office Writer, Quark Express and Adobe InDesign and so forth,
including difference between various versions of MS Word. Whether
particular conversions between various formats is mostly good enough
depends on the uses to which the documents are being put (and the
tolerance of those creating them and using them).
And lastly,
is there a way that I can make that pesky mouse disappear when I am typing?
It tends to get in the way of me reading the screen.
OpenOffice.org currently does not respect the "Hide pointer while
typing" selection in the Windows control panel. This is presumably a
bug. See http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=54005 for a
requested fix.
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