https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=125545
Issue ID: 125545
Issue Type: DEFECT
Summary: Issues Importing Text from MS Word Docs & Emails
Product: Writer
Version: 4.1.1
Hardware: PC
OS: Windows, all
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: minor
Priority: P3
Component: editing
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
This may be more of a request than a bug report, but the 'I have a problem'
pages need editing.
Having been in publishing for many years, I am quite familiar that almost
always text formatting (paragraph formats, spacing, page formats, etc.) are
lost when importing text from secondary sources.
Recently, my spell checker stopped working. The solutions listed at the site
did not quite solve the issue (it did lead me in the general vicinity). It
appears that when bringing in text or opening a new document, a language must
be specified for that individual document in order for the dictionary to work.
OPTION FOUND UNDER: TOOLS - LANGUAGE - FOR ALL TEXT - ENGLISH (in my case).
This solution was not listed as a fix among the solutions for a spell checker
not working.
In addition, my question to the developers is why should this be a necessary
step considering that a default language was chosen. Those companies/users
interested in multiple language dictionaries would be quite familiar with this
extra step, while most users would just be floundering out there wondering why
has their spell checker stopped working. I attempted to copy and paste the
text into a new document to bypass the issue but found that for some reason a
NO DESIGNATION for the language was attached to the copied text.
I will also tell you that having been in the publishing industry, I truly
appreciated the software of Apple computers. It was the one O/S that had THE
best text importing capabilities. I could import database and text files from
PCs, Rainbow's, NBI's, Wangs, Mainframes, and the list goes on of file types
imported using that little work horse. It was my handiest tool in the
publishing industry, and then later when I worked creating databases from a
variety of file formats. Maybe this could be a signature feature of OpenOffice
that would catapult you past that obnoxiously proprietary M/S.
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