On Fri, 27 Jan 2017 14:42:01 +0000 <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
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&t=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. -- Rory O'Farrell <ofarr...@iol.ie> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org