On Sun, 2006-02-26 at 15:34 -0500, Jallan wrote: > 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 . >
There are actually seven from http://lingucomponent.openoffice.org/grammar.html Please do not confuse the OP. > > 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. Is this not what I wrote? I think it was. > > > 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. > > Please send comments only to the mailing list at [email protected] . > > Jallan > > cc to [EMAIL PROTECTED] as apparently not subscribed to this list. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PLEASE KEEP MESSAGES ON THE LIST. OpenOffice.org Documentation Co-Lead http://documentation.openoffice.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
