Thank you! On Fri, 18 Oct 2019, 05:18 Brian Barker, <[email protected]> wrote:
> At 23:45 17/10/2019 +0200, Pat Brown wrote: > >I have changed my settings to use only the English UK dictionary ... > > I don't think you have! Language is a property of various parts of > text within a document, not some setting in the product. > > >... but when I open a document it shows the English USA dictionary > >at the bottom of the page. > > No, it shows that this is the language set for text at the insertion > point, nothing about dictionaries. > > >How can I change this so that it never uses the USA dictionary? > > I hope you cannot. If I send you a document in which I have > appropriately chosen to mark some or all of its text as "English > (USA)" (unlikely, in fact, but possible), your installation of the > program needs to respect that. What you *can* do is two things: > > o Set the default language for *new* documents that you create to > "English (UK)", if that is what you desire. > > o Change the language marked for all or part of the text within a > particular document to whatever is appropriate. Note that language is > a character property, so you can apply language as local - direct - > formatting, but it is better to learn about styles and apply language > settings using character styles or paragraph styles. > > >In fact, how can I delete the USA dictionary so that it is not even > available? > > It's never a good idea to go about tinkering with software and > deleting files, of course, but rather to use the product properly. > But even if you could do this, it would not - and should not - > prevent any text in any document being marked as "English (USA)". It > would simply mean that any such text could not have its spelling > checked: it would not somehow be magically checked using a dictionary > for another language. That would require the program to read your > mind: Finnish, Latvian, Esperanto? Oh, English (UK), eh? > > I trust this helps. > > Brian Barker > > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
