Some of this is sufficiently bad advice (given in public) that it
needs to be critiqued.
At 14:45 28/01/2017 +0000, 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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