2007/5/10, Donna Von Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
I cannot get the spell checker to work on my Open Office.Org 2.1. Even if I type in gibberish it says that the spell check is complete. The help file has not been of any help. Can you advise me on what to do? Sincerely, Donna Von Stein
Hello Donna, Take a look at these infos from previous threads: (1) Tutorial for Spell check and Language configuration http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=50862 (2) 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 -- Andy Pepperdine (3)**additional remark: you may need to close/reopen Quickstart before changes will work if your system uses QS...** HTH -- Guy using dutch OOo 2.2 RC 4 on a iMac Intel DualCore Tiger and dutch OOo 2.2 RC 4 on a G4 PPC Powerbook Tiger -- please reply only to users@openoffice.org -- Dodoes can't afford to have headaches
