At 08:29 13/10/2008 +0100, Jonathan Allen wrote:
I have this really strange issue with the spell-checker. Without me
being aware of pressing any keys to request this, the spell-checker
seems to break longer documents up into several sections where the
spell-checker is either on or off. In an 'off' section, I can't
find a way to turn it back on, and the icon up on the command bar
always shows 'on'; clicking it several times makes no difference.
Clicking the AutoSpellcheck button in the Standard toolbar "several
times" may not be a useful test: an even number of clicks should
produce no difference! A better test is to click it once.
Does anyone else see this behaviour and how can I stop it
happening. If it is some kind of strange design feature, how do I
get the spell-checker turned back on again in an 'off' section?
I think the button should toggle between on and off whatever the
condition of the text. Do you mean that the button will not become
highlighted when you click it, or just that the expected wavy red
underlines do not appear? If the latter, then you simply have the
language of sections of your text set wrongly.
Put the cursor into the text at a relevant point (or select some
text). The set language is shown in the centre of the Status Bar at
the foot of the window. Setting the language to "[None]" suppresses
spell-checking. Spell-checking also cannot happen if you have the
language set to one for which you do not have the appropriate
dictionary installed.
Language can be a character property, a character style property, and
a paragraph style property (but not a paragraph property, although an
entire paragraph can be given a language setting using the character
property, of course). You may have to change any of these to correct
your problem. Note that character-level language choice can be
carried over if you paste text from another source: could that be how
it got set? (Use Paste Special... | Unformatted text to avoid this.)
I trust this helps.
Brian Barker
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