[libreoffice-users] spell check does not "ignore all"

2024-05-28 Thread Thomas Blasejewicz
And again (sorry!) Windows 10, Libreoffice 7.6.6.3 I have had this problem for as long as I am using Libreoffice. But spell checking a 240-page book makes things worse. During the spell check, the checker comes across words not in the dictionary and I tell it, to "ignore all". But the spell ch

Re: [libreoffice-users] Spell Check

2024-05-20 Thread Steve Edmonds
For me this often happens if my document switches to English US when my dictionary is English UK. Check the document language displayed in the bottom bar of writer and the dictionaries you have. On 20/05/2024 03:27, D V wrote: My spell check is no longer working! I don't believe I made any cha

[libreoffice-users] Spell Check

2024-05-19 Thread D V
My spell check is no longer working! I don't believe I made any changes to the settings but I may be mistaken. I've checked online for reasons that may be causing this to happen but none have solved my situation. Effectively, each time I select text to be checked the spell check pop up window indic

[libreoffice-users] Spell Check

2024-03-25 Thread Chris Undy
Hello, I am sorting out a new mac laptop and would like to run Libre for my word processing. I did download it and using the address of chris.u...@gmail.com I'm writing from a different address due to a couple of hiccups. Whilst testing the libreoffice word processor on my first document its sp

[libreoffice-users] Spell check broken in 7.3.2

2022-04-05 Thread MR ZenWiz
I have some documents that contain certain special wods (I write epic fantasy novels and create words that I use in the books), and I tried to do a number of things with these regarding the spell-checker: 1) I tried to delete my old 'stanard.dic', but it keeps coming bak on its own as if I never s

[libreoffice-users] Spell check anomaly in Calc

2016-11-17 Thread John R. Sowden
Had an interesting anomaly this morning in Calc, version 5.x using Ubuntu 16.04. In a 'general' formatted field (default), I entered "April" without the quotes. By mistake, I hit the CAPS key. About 10 lines down, entered "aP", starting to type April with the caps on. Calc saw the April a

[libreoffice-users] spell check

2015-12-08 Thread Pedro
Hi people :) I'm coming here today to ask the community about one situation in my calc. I have a ods file that I use every day, today I installed a spell-check dictionary to check the ods file, but the functionality doesn't work, now the "funny", if i create a new ods file, the spell-check work

Re: [libreoffice-users] Spell Check Dictionary

2014-05-21 Thread Mark LaPierre
On 05/21/14 00:26, Jean-Francois Nifenecker wrote: > Mark, > > you didn't acknowledge my answer to your previous similar question in > this mailing list (05/18). > > Le 21/05/2014 01:55, Mark LaPierre a écrit : >> >> Is there a setting somewhere that I've missed that will allow the use of >> a lo

Re: [libreoffice-users] Spell Check Dictionary

2014-05-21 Thread Kracked_P_P---webmaster
Jean-Francois, it looks like "almost" the same post of the original question, if I remember it correctly. I assume he presses "Add to Dictionary" as well as making sure he checks "Standard [All}". I have asked that question before and it seems half of the people I asked did not since they

Re: [libreoffice-users] Spell Check Dictionary

2014-05-20 Thread Jean-Francois Nifenecker
Mark, you didn't acknowledge my answer to your previous similar question in this mailing list (05/18). Le 21/05/2014 01:55, Mark LaPierre a écrit : > > Is there a setting somewhere that I've missed that will allow the use of > a local dictionary? Is this a known bug? > Here's what I suggested

[libreoffice-users] Spell Check Dictionary

2014-05-20 Thread Mark LaPierre
Hey All, I've noticed that LibreOffice does not remember the words that I add to my dictionary when I open a new document that contains the same words I just added in the previous document. Every new document does not recognize the spelling of words that I have added when editing earlier document

Re: [libreoffice-users] Spell Check Dictionary

2014-05-17 Thread Jean-Francois Nifenecker
Hi Mark, Le 18/05/2014 06:04, Mark LaPierre a écrit : > [...] > If I open the same document again, the next day of example, the words > that I added to the dictionary previously when editing that same > document are not marked as misspelled, but if I open a new document the > words are not recogni

[libreoffice-users] Spell Check Dictionary

2014-05-17 Thread Mark LaPierre
Hey All, I've noticed that LibreOffice does not remember the words that I add to my dictionary when I open a new document that contains the same words I just added in the previous document. Every new document does not recognize the spelling of words that I have added when editing earlier document

[libreoffice-users] Spell check in input field not working in Writer template

2013-12-04 Thread Karen DInse
Windows XP, SP 3, LO 4.0.5.2 I've created a Writer template which has numerous input fields. When the user opens the template, they are prompted for input. The problem is, spell check doesn't work on the input fields. I've tried renaming my profile, but that didn't help. test.ott

Re: [libreoffice-users] Spell check not working on 3x5 flash cards

2013-07-01 Thread Al Vesper
Brian Barker suggested that my text language selection (Tools/Language) was not properly set, and indeed I found that it was set to None (which disables the spell check). I set it to English and now all works properly. Thank you Brian! -- Al Vesper -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Spell check not working on 3x5 flash cards

2013-07-01 Thread Dave Liesse
When I had this problem, there was no dictionary associated with the spell check. Don't remember the exact fix, and no explanation for why this would suddenly become an issue; just something to consider. Dave On 07/01/2013 10:49 AM, Al Vesper wrote: I have a file with lots of pages of rather

Re: [libreoffice-users] Spell check not working on 3x5 flash cards

2013-07-01 Thread Kracked_P_P---webmaster
On 07/01/2013 10:49 AM, Al Vesper wrote: I have a file with lots of pages of rather ordinary text formatted for printing on 3x5 cards, and ran the spell checker in writer before printing the cards. Spell check said (almost instantly) that it had completed successfully and would I like to start a

[libreoffice-users] Spell check not working on 3x5 flash cards

2013-07-01 Thread Al Vesper
I have a file with lots of pages of rather ordinary text formatted for printing on 3x5 cards, and ran the spell checker in writer before printing the cards. Spell check said (almost instantly) that it had completed successfully and would I like to start again at the beginning. I said yes and it s

[libreoffice-users] Spell check as I type enabled but no spell checking

2013-02-08 Thread sun shine
Hello list Using LibO 3.6.2.2 on Linux Mint: I have enabled the check spelling as you type option under Tools/ Options/ Writing Aids but I can type complete gibberish and the spell checker doesn't recognise this (i.e. no red underlines). How do I fix this please? Thanks -- For unsubscribe

Re: [libreoffice-users] Spell check problem on LO 3.5.4.2

2012-06-07 Thread Jonathon Waterman
You may also want to consider installing the After The Deadline extension. It does well with both spelling and grammar checking. On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 9:40 AM, webmaster-Kracked_P_P wrote: > On 06/07/2012 09:17 AM, Ryno Labuschagne wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I have a bit of a problem on my machine,

Re: [libreoffice-users] Spell check problem on LO 3.5.4.2

2012-06-07 Thread webmaster-Kracked_P_P
On 06/07/2012 09:17 AM, Ryno Labuschagne wrote: Hi, I have a bit of a problem on my machine, I downloaded the latest and installed it, now I dont get any spell checking. Even if I use F7 then it only comes back with an empty spell checker even though I know I have done some crazy spelling. How

Re: [libreoffice-users] Spell check problem on LO 3.5.4.2

2012-06-07 Thread Manfred J. Krause
Hi Ryno, On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 3:17 PM, Ryno Labuschagne wrote: > Hi, > > I have a bit of a problem on my machine, I downloaded the latest and > installed it, now I dont get any spell checking. > Even if I use F7 then it only comes back with an empty spell checker even > though I know I have done

[libreoffice-users] Spell check problem on LO 3.5.4.2

2012-06-07 Thread Ryno Labuschagne
Hi, I have a bit of a problem on my machine, I downloaded the latest and installed it, now I dont get any spell checking. Even if I use F7 then it only comes back with an empty spell checker even though I know I have done some crazy spelling. How can I solve this? Regards Ryno -- For unsubscri

Re: [libreoffice-users] Spell check problems

2012-03-06 Thread Edwin Matheson
On 3/6/2012 2:12 PM, Cliff Scott wrote: ** Reply to message from Edwin Matheson on Tue, 06 Mar 2012 09:16:25 -0500 I want to thank everyone for trying to help me with my spell check problem. However, I still have the problem. Spell check tells me that every word in my doc. is spelled wrong.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Spell check problems

2012-03-06 Thread Cliff Scott
** Reply to message from Edwin Matheson on Tue, 06 Mar 2012 09:16:25 -0500 > I want to thank everyone for trying to help me with my spell check > problem. However, I still have the problem. Spell check tells me that > every word in my doc. is spelled wrong. I still have OpenOffice on my > c

[libreoffice-users] Spell check problems

2012-03-06 Thread Edwin Matheson
I want to thank everyone for trying to help me with my spell check problem. However, I still have the problem. Spell check tells me that every word in my doc. is spelled wrong. I still have OpenOffice on my computer and I was able to get into the system (it usually crashes) I pulled down eve

[libreoffice-users] Spell check problem

2012-03-04 Thread Edwin Matheson
Brian Thanks for the reply. I used OpenOffice for several years but for the past several days it crashed every few seconds. As a result I loaded Libreoffice. I opened one of my OpenOffice docs in Libreoffice and almost every word is underlined. When I look at the status bar it says English

RE: [libreoffice-users] Spell check for 3.4.5 on Win7 not working

2012-02-17 Thread V Stuart Foote
ary 17, 2012 9:05 AM To: users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: RE: [libreoffice-users] Spell check for 3.4.5 on Win7 not working Hi :) I know LibreOffice 3.5.0 can use java 1.7 but i doubt that has been back-ported to all other releases that people are using out there.  Java is going to be a problem

RE: [libreoffice-users] Spell check for 3.4.5 on Win7 not working

2012-02-17 Thread Tom Davies
thing that isn't broken and vulnerable before Oracle release it.  Regards from Tom :) --- On Fri, 17/2/12, V Stuart Foote wrote: From: V Stuart Foote Subject: RE: [libreoffice-users] Spell check for 3.4.5 on Win7 not working To: users@global.libreoffice.org Date: Friday, 17 February, 2012,

Re: [libreoffice-users] Spell check for 3.4.5 on Win7 not working

2012-02-17 Thread webmaster for Kracked Press Productions
t: Re: [libreoffice-users] Spell check for 3.4.5 on Win7 not working To: users@global.libreoffice.org Date: Friday, 17 February, 2012, 0:20 Her laptop is faster than my quad. It is a desktop replacement. There is hardly any space used on the drive itself. She has not had time to place anything on it. I w

RE: [libreoffice-users] Spell check for 3.4.5 on Win7 not working

2012-02-16 Thread V Stuart Foote
-users] Spell check for 3.4.5 on Win7 not working Hi :) Hmm, weird.  Perhaps it's too high a version of java?  Is it using a more recent version than 6u21? Regards from Tom :) -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.or

Re: [libreoffice-users] Spell check for 3.4.5 on Win7 not working

2012-02-16 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Hmm, weird.  Perhaps it's too high a version of java?  Is it using a more recent version than 6u21? Regards from Tom :) --- On Fri, 17/2/12, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote: From: webmaster for Kracked Press Productions Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Spell chec

Re: [libreoffice-users] Spell check for 3.4.5 on Win7 not working

2012-02-16 Thread webmaster for Kracked Press Productions
:) --- On Thu, 16/2/12, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote: From: webmaster for Kracked Press Productions Subject: [libreoffice-users] Spell check for 3.4.5 on Win7 not working To: "LibreO - Users Global" Date: Thursday, 16 February, 2012, 12:36 I loaded 3.4.5 onto a Win7

Re: [libreoffice-users] Spell check for 3.4.5 on Win7 not working

2012-02-16 Thread Tom Davies
(or at least the bits i know how to do myself, such as defrags, updates and antivirus-scans) and then try to remember to do maintenance tasks at a time to suit myself.    Regards from Tom :) --- On Thu, 16/2/12, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote: From: webmaster for Kracked Press

[libreoffice-users] Spell check for 3.4.5 on Win7 not working

2012-02-16 Thread webmaster for Kracked Press Productions
I loaded 3.4.5 onto a Win7 [64-bit] laptop yesterday at a meeting for a lady. She wanted to use LO to type up the notes of the meeting right there. But after she saved the document, she clicked on the spell check icon and the windows came up empty with a "not responding" text in the "pop up w

Re: [libreoffice-users] Spell check not working, no Available language modules.

2011-11-04 Thread Manfred J. Krause
Hi, On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 8:27 PM, Thomas wrote: > Hi, > > I have installed LibreOffice 3.4 and help pack Swedish and English, but have > no spell check. Under tools options language settings writing aids there is > no available modules to choose from. How do I get the spell check to work? Maybe

[libreoffice-users] Spell check not working, no Available language modules.

2011-11-04 Thread Thomas
Hi, I have installed LibreOffice 3.4 and help pack Swedish and English, but have no spell check. Under tools options language settings writing aids there is no available modules to choose from. How do I get the spell check to work? Regards // Thomas -- View this message in context: http://nabbl

Re: [libreoffice-users] Spell check

2011-10-30 Thread Manfred J. Krause
Hi, please have a look at → 'Spell check not working' http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Spell-check-not-working-td3368874.html#none Workaround: → 'spell checking not working in LBO 3.4.3 ' http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/spell-checking-not-working-in-LBO-3-4-3-tt3299202.html#a3302339 Tha

[libreoffice-users] Spell check

2011-10-30 Thread GAC
I have replaced OOo with LibreOffice by downloading and installing: LibO_3.4.3_Win_x86_install_multi.exe LibO_3.4.3_Win_x86_helppack_en-GB.exe Initially LibreOffice did not appear to be recognised by Windows, I could not associate it with any files. When I right clicked on a document and selected

Re: [libreoffice-users] Spell check not working

2011-09-27 Thread Leon Stringer
Thanks all who replied. On 26 September 2011 18:05, Manfred J. Krause wrote: > > please have a look at the bug report (only 91 comments) ... ;) > Yes, you're quite correct it's https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37195. I should have looked further. In my case copying: %PROGRAMFILES%\

Re: [libreoffice-users] Spell check not working

2011-09-26 Thread Spencer Graves
I had this problem and fixed it after someone on this list directed me to something like ">> spell checking not working in LBO 3.4.3 >> >> http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/spell-checking-not-working-in-LBO-3-4-3-tt3299202.html#a3302339";. Specifically, I found "path: ...\LibreOff

Re: [libreoffice-users] Spell check not working

2011-09-26 Thread Manfred J. Krause
Hi, please have a look at the bug report (only 91 comments) ... ;) I think it's principally a Windows bug, especially Win7. Registering/synchronizing the bundled dictionary extensions is broken, the user profile (of a previous LibO installation) doesn't get the new values of the upgraded LibO ver

Re: [libreoffice-users] Spell check not working

2011-09-26 Thread webmaster for Kracked Press Productions
For what OS and what conditions does this "bug" happen? I did not get this when I downloaded/installed LO 3.4.3 yesterday on a "clean install" Compaq Win XP system. But I also add Language Tool and Linguist, plus other default extension before I start using LO. So that may help the issue.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Spell check not working

2011-09-26 Thread Manfred J. Krause
Hi, On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 12:26 PM, STRINGER LEON wrote: > Hi, > > I installed LO 3.4.3 (OOO340m1 Build 302) a few weeks ago and I've > just noticed that the spell check (both AutoSpellCheck and > Tools->Spelling and Grammar...) don't work. > > For AutoSpellCheck, mispelled words are not underli

Re: [libreoffice-users] Spell check not working

2011-09-26 Thread webmaster for Kracked Press Productions
Just for the sake of trying it to see if this helps; Have you installed the Language Tool or Linguist extensions? I use these as my defaults. [http://libreoffice-na.us/English/extensions.html] I have these installed on an old Compaq Win XP system that I just installed 3.4.3 on it. [It did n

[libreoffice-users] Spell check not working

2011-09-26 Thread STRINGER LEON
Hi, I installed LO 3.4.3 (OOO340m1 Build 302) a few weeks ago and I've just noticed that the spell check (both AutoSpellCheck and Tools->Spelling and Grammar...) don't work. For AutoSpellCheck, mispelled words are not underlined. For Spelling and Grammar I just immediately get a message saying "

Re: [libreoffice-users] Spell check can't spell?

2011-03-01 Thread Leslie D. Martin
Oops. Sorry about the breach of etiquette, folks. I'm not used to using email for this sort of thing. I'm used to forums. I think Cliff hit the nail on the head about selecting a default language. This seems different than OpenOffice, where the default language seemed to be active upon installatio

Re: [libreoffice-users] Spell check can't spell?

2011-03-01 Thread Cliff Scott
** Reply to message from "Leslie D. Martin" on Tue, 1 Mar 2011 19:03:57 -0800 > Using US english dictionary spell checker misses misspelled words. I can > have a document with multiple confirmed spelling errors and LO doesn't seem > to find a single one of them when I run spell check after the fa

[libreoffice-users] Spell check can't spell?

2011-03-01 Thread Leslie D. Martin
Using US english dictionary spell checker misses misspelled words. I can have a document with multiple confirmed spelling errors and LO doesn't seem to find a single one of them when I run spell check after the fact (for example, an imported or "cut and paste" document). It does seem to work fine i

Re: [libreoffice-users] Spell check

2011-02-27 Thread webmaster for Kracked Press Productions
On 02/27/2011 06:47 AM, Richard Hainsworth wrote: I cant get the spell check to work. I am using Ubuntu 10.10. Added repositories for ppa. Purged openoffice. Then installed libreoffice and gnome additions. Then installed en-gb help and language modules. No spell checking at all. Not US not G

[Solved] Re: [libreoffice-users] Spell check

2011-02-27 Thread Richard Hainsworth
From LibreOfficeForums. The problem arises in Ubuntu a) to get rid of all OpenOffice dependencies, purge is recommended. b) this kills bits of the spellchecker. So. Click on System/Administration/Language Support, which tells you bits are missing. Reinstall and spell works. On 27/02/11 15:15,

Re: [libreoffice-users] Spell check

2011-02-27 Thread Don Myers
I've installed LibreOffice on 5 machines running Ubuntu 10.10 using the official download from the LibreOffice site. I extracted the download, and the used the terminal to remove OpenOffice and to do the LibreOffice install. Spell checker has worked perfectly on all 5 systems. On several instal

Re: [libreoffice-users] Spell check

2011-02-27 Thread Tom Davies
m Tom :) From: Richard Hainsworth To: users@libreoffice.org Sent: Sun, 27 February, 2011 12:15:26 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Spell check Further reading in libreoffice archives shows that this occurs. Maybe the problem is in the ubuntu ppa repo. Also when purging OpenO

Re: [libreoffice-users] Spell check

2011-02-27 Thread Richard Hainsworth
Further reading in libreoffice archives shows that this occurs. Maybe the problem is in the ubuntu ppa repo. Also when purging OpenOffice, hunspell was deleted too. Is Libreoffice dependent on hunspell? On 02/27/11 14:47, Richard Hainsworth wrote: I cant get the spell check to work. I am usi

[libreoffice-users] Spell check

2011-02-27 Thread Richard Hainsworth
I cant get the spell check to work. I am using Ubuntu 10.10. Added repositories for ppa. Purged openoffice. Then installed libreoffice and gnome additions. Then installed en-gb help and language modules. No spell checking at all. Not US not GB. What to do? -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mai

Re: [libreoffice-users] spell check, grammar check, dictionary system - my answer/solution given to OOo thread.

2011-02-04 Thread toki
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/04/2011 03:50 AM, T. R. Valentine wrote: > But in a language with homophones, homographs, heteronyms, and heterographs, > I can't even begin to imagine how one could code for all the possibilities ( First you check for word order. Then you che

Re: [libreoffice-users] spell check, grammar check, dictionary system - my answer/solution given to OOo thread.

2011-02-03 Thread T. R. Valentine
On 3 February 2011 21:13, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote: > There is a need for someone to work on a good content/context > checker for spelling and grammar. Add a mini-dictionary function > to a spell checker would help with people, like me, who may not > know what the correct sp

Re: [libreoffice-users] spell check, grammar check, dictionary system - my answer/solution given to OOo thread.

2011-02-03 Thread webmaster for Kracked Press Productions
On 02/03/2011 07:01 PM, Tom Browder wrote: On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 16:17, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote: This was on the OOo list. I decided that it may be something that could be looked at from LibreOffice's point of view. My answer is something that I really would like to see

Re: [libreoffice-users] spell check, grammar check, dictionary system - my answer/solution given to OOo thread.

2011-02-03 Thread Tom Browder
On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 16:17, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote: > > This was on the OOo list. > I decided that it may be something that could be > looked at from LibreOffice's point of view.  My answer > is something that I really would like to see as an add on > for OOo, LibreOffice,

[libreoffice-users] spell check, grammar check, dictionary system - my answer/solution given to OOo thread.

2011-02-03 Thread webmaster for Kracked Press Productions
This was on the OOo list. I decided that it may be something that could be looked at from LibreOffice's point of view. My answer is something that I really would like to see as an add on for OOo, LibreOffice, and all of its forked lines of suites. As someone with Dyslexia, the "solution" is in