On Tuesday 29 March 2005 16:26, + ROD STOKES wrote: > Hi, > I've just updated from openoffice 1.12 to 1.14 and the installation went > smoothly, with no errors, and the write program seems to be working. > However, spell checking didn't appear to be working under the previous > version, and I can only get spell checking working under U.S. english. The > options on the tools menu show that the english G.B. option has no 'ABC > check mark'. I have altered the lines in dictionary.1st to: > > DICT en GB en_GB > HYPH en GB hyph_en_GB > THES en GB th_en_GB > > However, the speel checking is still only available for U.S. english. If I > select check all langauges it only spell checks in U.S. english. Is this > correct or can you recommend a sloution please?
As you are not subscribed you may not have seen that: On Wednesday 30 March 2005 21:34, Shez wrote: > > Does the dictionary directory contain the corresponding GB files, i.e. > en_GB.dic, hyph_en_GB.dic and th_en_GB.dat? If not you need to get > those. > > I don't think there is a GB thesaurus though, only a US one, so I would > change the last line to > THES en GB th_en_US > so that the US thesaurus is made available for GB use, which is better > than nothing. (I doubt this problem would stop the GB spellchecking from > working though.) > > If you have the dictionary files already, the only other thing I can > suggest is that you check that the default document language is set to > UK English, and that any documents you've already made that you need to > spellcheck are also set to UK English. (If necessary you can do a > "Select All" and then change just the language in the font settings > dialogue without disturbing the other font settings.) Please reply to [email protected] only. -- CPH : openoffice.org contributor Maybe your question has been answered already? http://user-faq.openoffice.org/#FAQ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
