Spell Check & Thesaurus

[anna hall <ba...@wavecable.com>]

I have two recurring issues with Writer 4.1.11 (latest version)
1) The spell-checker doesn't work correctly (in English)
        - I can't choose just one word to check. When I select a word, the entire sentence appears in the "Not in dictionary" box.
          Within the sentence, one word (eg: "scalp" which was spelled correctly!) is highlighted in red, but the suggestion box is empty.
          In another result (again the entire sentence) "in" is highlighted in red, and in the suggestion box: "sun"
- The thesaurus doesn't work at all - no results!

I can find no troubleshooting or help topics which pertain to these issues. Suggestions? AH

Re: Spell Check & Thesaurus

[Brian Barker <b....@btinternet.com.INVALID>]

At 23:05 09/11/2021 +0000, Hugo Costa wrote:
>On Saturday, November 6, 2021, 02:25:15 PM GMT-3, Anna Hall wrote:
>>I have two recurring issues with Writer 4.1.11 (latest version)
>>1) The spell-checker doesn't work correctly (in English)
>>- I can't choose just one word to check. When I select a word, the 
>>entire sentence appears in the "Not in dictionary" box.
>>Within the sentence, one word (eg: "scalp" which was spelled 
>>correctly!) is highlighted in red, but the suggestion box is empty.
>>In another result (again the entire sentence) "in" is highlighted 
>>in red, and in the suggestion box: "sun"
>>- The thesaurus doesn't work at all - no results!
>
>Do you UPGRADE the version of open office lately ? if yes, THAT is 
>the problem. Because there is a bug every time you change your version.

There is no bug in the enquirer's declared behaviour. The spelling 
checking acts as it should for her. The problem with "scalp " is not 
reproducible: I'm guessing that the word may have a capital eye in 
place of the required lower case ell, which might be easy to miss in 
a sans serif font. The problem with "in" is similarly not 
reproducible. It would be useful to see a sample document showing the 
problems. And she needs to enable the thesaurus, or perhaps to 
recognise that misspelled or (in particular) long words may have no 
synonyms in the thesaurus.

Again, if you are seeing problems after upgrading, there is something 
wrong with how you are attempting this.

Brian Barker  


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Re: Spell Check & Thesaurus

[Hugo Costa <hu...@yahoo.com.INVALID>]

 
Do you UPGRADE the version of open office lately ? 
 if yes, THAT is the problem.  Because there is a bug every time you change your version.
    On Saturday, November 6, 2021, 02:25:15 PM GMT-3, anna hall <ba...@wavecable.com> wrote:  
 
 I have two recurring issues with Writer 4.1.11 (latest version)
1) The spell-checker doesn't work correctly (in English)
        - I can't choose just one word to check. When I select a word, the entire sentence appears in the "Not in dictionary" box.
          Within the sentence, one word (eg: "scalp" which was spelled correctly!) is highlighted in red, but the suggestion box is empty.
          In another result (again the entire sentence) "in" is highlighted in red, and in the suggestion box: "sun"
- The thesaurus doesn't work at all - no results!

I can find no troubleshooting or help topics which pertain to these issues. Suggestions? AH