Hi,

  I work on open office 2.2.
I have installed a french dictionnary and have apparently set up according
to the set up rules in order to use it (options/ ... linguistic...
However, open writer does not seem to recognise the dictionnary (it does not
appear on the correction window, and the program immediatly scan the text
without any correction of the obvious mispelling) and therefore does not
correct mispelling. How can I solve the problem?    Thank you for the
information


Check out this info collected from previous threads:

(1) Tutorial for Spell check and Language configuration
http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=50862

(2) [Tuto] Correcteur d'orthographe
http://www.forum-openoffice.org/forum/ftopic2831.html

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
**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
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