Re: apache document

2017-01-28 Thread Brian Barker 
Some of this is sufficiently bad advice (given in public) that it 
needs to be critiqued.


At 14:45 28/01/2017 +, Ninja U. Glace wrote:

You need to change your default language setting back to English.


o The questioner has problems with a current document or documents. 
Changing his default language will not affect this. The default 
language applies only to new documents and in the absence of other settings.


o Default language is set at Tools | Options... | Language Settings | 
Languages | Default languages for documents, and not as described here.



From the Format menu at the top of the window, select the "Character" option.


o Modifying local character formatting does not affect the default language.

o Modifying the text language in local character formatting affects 
only the language at the cursor position - so it applies only to new 
text typed immediately after the change is made - not to any existing 
text. It doesn't even apply to new text at the current cursor 
position if another action intervenes. Again, this won't help with 
any existing text.


o Better advice would be not to use local formatting but always a 
combination of default settings and either character styles or 
paragraph styles.



Select English, and click OK. Now your Autocorrect should function normally.


o The questioner says all words are marked as misspelled. This could 
be caused by an inappropriate language setting only if two conditions 
are satisfied:
1. He has inadvertently set the language to something other than the 
language in which he is typing - possible.

*and*
2. He has successfully installed a spelling dictionary for that 
other, rogue language - surely very unlikely? (In the absence of 
that, nothing would be marked as misspelled.) That sounds a 
remarkable coincidence. (Even then, some English words might even 
"pass" in the other language, so that it would not be true that all 
words were marked as misspelled.)


o Oh, and AutoCorrect is something else: it is all about automatic 
corrections made as you type - nothing to do with the marking of 
misspelled words ("AutoSpellCheck"), which the questioner is asking about.


What is probable is that he has suffered corruption of (some part of) 
his OpenOffice user profile - a well-known cause of this problem.


Brian Barker  



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Re: apache document

2017-01-28 Thread ninja_glace 
Mike, 

You need to change your default language setting back to English. 

Here's how to do it: 

1)  From the Format menu at the top of the window, select the
"Character" option. 

2)  From the Character window, click on the "Language" dropdown menu. 

3)  Select English, and click OK.  Now your Autocorrect should function
normally. 

On 2017-01-27 14:42, sniknej...@gmail.com wrote:

> For some reason, the red wriggly lines which indicate a spelling or grammar 
> error,
> now appear under EVERY word I write !!  Must have clicked on something in 
> error. 
> Have gone thro the task bar at the top of the page to try to find an answer. 
> Have used 'Help'
> But don't know what the red lines are called.  Can you tell me how to get rid 
> of them??
> 
> Mike Jenkins sniknej...@gmail.com
> 
> Sent from Mail for Windows 10

Re: apache document

2017-01-28 Thread Rory O'Farrell 
On Sat, 28 Jan 2017 11:42:01 +0100
Hagar Delest  wrote:

> Resent with full ink: 
> https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=74=12426#p58403
> 
> Hagar

Thanks, Hagar.  I hadn't noticed the damaged link.

Rory

> 
> 
> Le 27/01/2017 à 16:06, Rory O'Farrell a écrit :
> > On Fri, 27 Jan 2017 14:42:01 +
> >  wrote:
> >
> >> For some reason, the red wriggly lines which indicate a spelling or 
> >> grammar error,
> >> now appear under EVERY word I write !!  Must have clicked on something in 
> >> error.
> >> Have gone thro the task bar at the top of the page to try to find an 
> >> answer. Have used ‘Help’
> >> But don’t know what the red lines are called.  Can you tell me how to get 
> >> rid of them??
> >>
> >> Mike Jenkins sniknej...@gmail.com
> > The quick cure for this is to delete (if a new install) or rename (if you 
> > have been using OpenOffice for some time and have customisation, such as 
> > user dictionaries, the OpenOffice user profile.
> >
> > Details of the User Profile for various operating systems
> > are given in
> >
> > https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/v ... 74=12426
> >
> > If you are using Windows close OpenOffice and the Quickstarter. Open File
> > Explorer. Copy and paste %appdata%\OpenOffice\4 in the File Explorer
> > Address Bar and press Enter. Rename the "user" folder - "user.old" is a
> > good choice. Start OpenOffice.
> >
> > This cures most spellcheck problems
> >
> > It can sometimes happen that an installation produces a faulty user
> > profile "out of the box". The above fix works in the vast majority of cases.
> > To prevent this happening again, be leisurely in your closing down of the 
> > computer after properly closing your OO file and OO. Use the formal 
> > computer closedown procedure and wait for a few seconds to be certain all 
> > disk activity has ceased - damage to the spellchecker often occurs if the 
> > computer is powered down before the hardware/software write buffers have 
> > flushed. The few extra seconds will be less than the time needed to correct 
> > the problem, or, more likely, to rebuild a damaged file which can also 
> > occur through such over-hasty shutdown.
> >
> 
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Re: apache document

2017-01-28 Thread Hagar Delest 

Resent with full ink: 
https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=74=12426#p58403

Hagar


Le 27/01/2017 à 16:06, Rory O'Farrell a écrit :

On Fri, 27 Jan 2017 14:42:01 +
 wrote:


For some reason, the red wriggly lines which indicate a spelling or grammar 
error,
now appear under EVERY word I write !!  Must have clicked on something in error.
Have gone thro the task bar at the top of the page to try to find an answer. 
Have used ‘Help’
But don’t know what the red lines are called.  Can you tell me how to get rid 
of them??

Mike Jenkins sniknej...@gmail.com

The quick cure for this is to delete (if a new install) or rename (if you have 
been using OpenOffice for some time and have customisation, such as user 
dictionaries, the OpenOffice user profile.

Details of the User Profile for various operating systems
are given in

https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/v ... 74=12426

If you are using Windows close OpenOffice and the Quickstarter. Open File
Explorer. Copy and paste %appdata%\OpenOffice\4 in the File Explorer
Address Bar and press Enter. Rename the "user" folder - "user.old" is a
good choice. Start OpenOffice.

This cures most spellcheck problems

It can sometimes happen that an installation produces a faulty user
profile "out of the box". The above fix works in the vast majority of cases.
To prevent this happening again, be leisurely in your closing down of the 
computer after properly closing your OO file and OO. Use the formal computer 
closedown procedure and wait for a few seconds to be certain all disk activity 
has ceased - damage to the spellchecker often occurs if the computer is powered 
down before the hardware/software write buffers have flushed. The few extra 
seconds will be less than the time needed to correct the problem, or, more 
likely, to rebuild a damaged file which can also occur through such over-hasty 
shutdown.




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Re: apache document

2017-01-27 Thread Pieter Schim van der Loeff 
Probably you have selected a funny language.
Op 27 jan. 2017 15:48 schreef  het volgende:

> For some reason, the red wriggly lines which indicate a spelling or
> grammar error,
> now appear under EVERY word I write !!  Must have clicked on something in
> error.
> Have gone thro the task bar at the top of the page to try to find an
> answer. Have used ‘Help’
> But don’t know what the red lines are called.  Can you tell me how to get
> rid of them??
>
> Mike Jenkins sniknej...@gmail.com
>
>
> Sent from Mail for Windows 10
>
>

Re: apache document

2017-01-27 Thread Rory O'Farrell 
On Fri, 27 Jan 2017 14:42:01 +
 wrote:

> For some reason, the red wriggly lines which indicate a spelling or grammar 
> error,
> now appear under EVERY word I write !!  Must have clicked on something in 
> error. 
> Have gone thro the task bar at the top of the page to try to find an answer. 
> Have used ‘Help’
> But don’t know what the red lines are called.  Can you tell me how to get rid 
> of them??
> 
> Mike Jenkins sniknej...@gmail.com

The quick cure for this is to delete (if a new install) or rename (if you have 
been using OpenOffice for some time and have customisation, such as user 
dictionaries, the OpenOffice user profile.

Details of the User Profile for various operating systems
are given in

https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/v ... 74=12426

If you are using Windows close OpenOffice and the Quickstarter. Open File
Explorer. Copy and paste %appdata%\OpenOffice\4 in the File Explorer
Address Bar and press Enter. Rename the "user" folder - "user.old" is a
good choice. Start OpenOffice.

This cures most spellcheck problems

It can sometimes happen that an installation produces a faulty user
profile "out of the box". The above fix works in the vast majority of cases.
To prevent this happening again, be leisurely in your closing down of the 
computer after properly closing your OO file and OO. Use the formal computer 
closedown procedure and wait for a few seconds to be certain all disk activity 
has ceased - damage to the spellchecker often occurs if the computer is powered 
down before the hardware/software write buffers have flushed. The few extra 
seconds will be less than the time needed to correct the problem, or, more 
likely, to rebuild a damaged file which can also occur through such over-hasty 
shutdown.

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Rory O'Farrell 

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