> -----Original Message----- > From: James Elliott [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, March 12, 2010 11:02 AM > To: OOo Users > Subject: [users] Spell Check anomaly.? > > A friend sent me her university assignment to read and I noticed that > all the underlined 'mistakes' were, in fact, correct but not spelt in > the American way ... she is a very good speller, so I was quite > surprised to see so many red underlines, and not surprised at > all to see > she was right and the spell checker was wrong. > > She sent me a Word doc so my first thought was that somehow > the M$ Word > doc had reset my spell checker to US-English, but when I went > to Tools > > Options > Writing aids and Tools > Options > Language settings > everything was set up for Australian English. > > So, why is my Australian English spell checker behaving like and > American English spell checker? > > I would appreciate your advice and comment.
No advice from me, but my comment is that I've had little weirdnesses come and go, over the years, with respect to spell checkers and dictionaries and OOo. With me, it's usually French. I am a technical writer working in Canada, for an American company, so I write docs in American English. But every once in a while, I'll open a doc and it will be awash in red, and all the "suggested spellings" will be French. Now, Canada does have two official languages - the other being French - and the one being our peculiar blend of English (some Brit-like usage and some American-like), but other than supplying my location when registering, I've never deliberately chosen any except a Brit dictionary, or more usually just gone with the default, which is American. Also, it's not consistent. I might go weeks without seeing OOo insist that 5 out of every 6 words is bad French (I'm writing in English), and then suddenly there it'll be... a sea of red. I just ignore it now. After a few days (sometimes after a reboot) it'll just stop happening...... for a while. Still happens with OOo 3.2. Only once so far and lasted about a day. I'm using Windows XP Pro X64 here at work. On my Linux and Mac boxes, I don't notice the problem, but I use OOo a lot less on those. - Kevin PS: Please forgive the following crud. The server adds it automatically. I have it on good authority that even the server is slightly ashamed of serving up this stuff - as pointless AND badly written as it is, but lawyers will be lawyers. The information contained in this electronic mail transmission may be privileged and confidential, and therefore, protected from disclosure. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to this message and deleting it from your computer without copying or disclosing it. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
