Auto Spell Check

[Feral Hassan <fe...@hotmail.co.uk>]

Dear Sir / Madam,
Yesterday I opened a document that I have been working on for some time now and found that, for some reason, every single word (in UK English) has been underlined in red by the Auto Spell Check. I have gone through the help instructions and ensured that all settings are set to English (UK), so this cannot be the problem. I can of course turn the Auto Spell Check off, but then I won't know if I've spelt anything incorrectly.  I even tried opening a new document to see if it would do the same on that, and it did. I also tried downloading the latest version of your product, same again.Any ideas why it is doing this all of a sudden when the day before, having saved my document, it was fine? It's almost as if it's suddenly basing everything on a foreign language dictionary.Any assistance for would be much appreciated.
Many thanks,Feral Hassan
 		 	   		  

Re: Auto Spell Check

[Robert Funnell <ro...@mcgill.ca>]

A Google search for 'open office spell check highlights every word' 
led me to this forum thread from 2012:
https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=56074

It points to a trouble-shooting procedure:
https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?t=16512

The bottom line in that user's case was to reset the user profile. If 
you don't know how to do that, there are explicit instructions toward 
the end of the thread.

Does this help in your case?

On Wed, 17 Sep 2014, Feral Hassan wrote:

> Dear Sir / Madam,
> Yesterday I opened a document that I have been working on for some time now and found that, for some reason, every single word (in UK English) has been underlined in red by the Auto Spell Check. I have gone through the help instructions and ensured that all settings are set to English (UK), so this cannot be the problem. I can of course turn the Auto Spell Check off, but then I won't know if I've spelt anything incorrectly.  I even tried opening a new document to see if it would do the same on that, and it did. I also tried downloading the latest version of your product, same again.Any ideas why it is doing this all of a sudden when the day before, having saved my document, it was fine? It's almost as if it's suddenly basing everything on a foreign language dictionary.Any assistance for would be much appreciated.
> Many thanks,Feral Hassan
>

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Re: Auto Spell Check--it's how you create, open, or access your file

["Anthony J. Rudgers" <an...@att.net>]

Greetings,

Back when I was attempting to get some useful results using OpenOffice 
Writer, I had a number of experiences similar to your present one. 
Sometimes the OOo "spellcheck" worked just fine for American English.  Other 
times it didn't work at all, failing to "redline" obvious misspellings that 
I'd purposely introduced.  Then other times the spellcheck became 
overzealous, so to speak, & indicated that every word in a document was 
misspelled!  I was quite frustrated w/ the way Writer was working, but I 
figured out what was going on.  How Writer applies its spellcheck, depends 
upon how you open, or initiate, your document!  This appears to be a 
persistent long-standing bug ("feature"?) in Writer.

I now use MS Windows 7 on my computer, but when I was having the problem 
(before I gave up on OpenOffice software) I was using Windows Vista.  You 
know that, in both Windows 7 & in Windows Vista, you can access a particular 
WP document in various ways, &, if you're creating a new document, there are 
several options for starting out.  I found that Writer doesn't work the same 
way in every option, no matter how you set it up when you have a particular 
document open.  For example, when I was suddenly getting every word in a 
document redlined, I  traced this to the fact that the Writer software was 
applying a German-language dictionary to my document!  Sure, everything was 
misspelled, since I was writing a document in English!   When I changed the 
way I opened Writer documents in Vista, the option I chose had, as I 
learned, used a spelling dictionary (German) other than the one I had 
previously selected (American English, or at least I THOUGHT I had selected 
my native language).  Another symptom of this dependence of spelling 
dictionary on document creation &/or access procedure was the observation 
that often particular words, names, & terms that I added to my English 
dictionary, suddenly were flagged as misspelled in other documents. 
Apparently, when you set your spelling (& other!) defaults, after evoking 
the Writer word processor in one way, you can get something entirely 
different, if you get to Writer by some other option on your computer.

I hope this report of my personal experience w/ OpenOffice Writer helps you 
resolve your problem.

Best wishes,

Anthony J. Rudgers
Orlando, FL
Sept. 17, 2014; 8:42 pm



-----Original Message----- 
From: Feral Hassan
Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2014 5:44 AM
To: users@openoffice.apache.org
Subject: Auto Spell Check

Dear Sir / Madam,
Yesterday I opened a document that I have been working on for some time now 
and found that, for some reason, every single word (in UK English) has been 
underlined in red by the Auto Spell Check. I have gone through the help 
instructions and ensured that all settings are set to English (UK), so this 
cannot be the problem. I can of course turn the Auto Spell Check off, but 
then I won't know if I've spelt anything incorrectly.  I even tried opening 
a new document to see if it would do the same on that, and it did. I also 
tried downloading the latest version of your product, same again.Any ideas 
why it is doing this all of a sudden when the day before, having saved my 
document, it was fine? It's almost as if it's suddenly basing everything on 
a foreign language dictionary.Any assistance for would be much appreciated.
Many thanks,Feral Hassan
 


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