On Wednesday 08 November 2006 11:52, Milan Berta wrote: > Hi folks, > > Having trouble with managing dictionaries in Writer (and not finding any > topics at www.openoffice.org FAQ) I decided to write to the list. > > My Spellcheck is forcing me to Spellcheck using "English (USA)" > dictionary. Literally, after hitting F7 I have "English (USA)" in the > Spellcheck window, even Options -> Language Settings -> Languages have > Czech or Slovakian or Hungarian (I didn't try more languages, but > I think this list suppose to be enough for reporting a problem :o)
Do you have the right dictionaries installed? Here's a brief guide: Languages in OpenOffice To obtain the relevant dictionaries, go to File -> Wizards -> Install new dictionaries and download the ones you want. To set the default language for your installation, go to Tools -> Options -> Language Settings / Languages and set the default for all your documents. If there is a dictionary for your selection, there will be a tick mark against it. It is important to remember that language is an attribute of the text of a document, and can be set differently in different parts of the same document. This allows foreign language quotes to be separately checked against the appropriate dictionary. To set the default for a document that is different from the default setting for all other documents, when you have opened the document (or started a new one) go to the Default style and change it there. F11 (or Format -> Styles and Formatting) brings up the style list. Right click on Default (or the root style for your document) go to Modify -> Font tab where you can set the language for this style and will be carried down to other styles derived from it unless otherwise changed. To change the language for a piece of text, highlight the text and go to Format -> Character -> Font tab (or right click -> Character -> Font) where you can set the language for just that portion of text. If you set up your styles for a language in an empty document and then save it as a template (File -> Templates -> Save), then you can select the appropriate one to start a new document with File -> New -> Templates and Documents > > Changing Dictionary language (in the Spellcheck dialogue box) to > anything else (Czech/Slovakian/Hungarian) changes the name of the window > from "Spellcheck (English(USA))" to "Spellcheck ()", and no suggestion > comes from any mentioned dictionary. > > Further settings: > - User interface: Default (using English WinXP SP2, important?) > - Locale settings: Czech > > And I have to say English (USA) Spellcheck works fine. > > This behaviour didn't change even after reinstallation of OO SW, and > deleting "C:\Program Files\OpenOffice.org 2.0\share\dict\ooo\" directory > and downloading the newest dictionaries. > > It looks that the OO doesn't recognise the mentioned dictionaries, but > I don't understand why. Can be this fail caused by another SW I've > installed on my PC before? How can I repair the Spellcheck to behave > correctly? > > With many thanks, > Milan > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Andy Pepperdine On this mailing list help is provided by volunteers. Please subscribe to the mailing list to see all the replies to a query, and reply only to the mailing list. For FAQ, userguide, see: http://documentation.openoffice.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]