2010/3/12 Larry Gusaas <[email protected]> > On 2010/03/12 10:02 AM James Elliott wrote: > >> 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. >> >> Many thanks, James >> > > Every document has its own setting for language. My copy of OO.o is set to > use Canadian English for spell checking but I often receive documents > written in US English. > > The menu at the bottom of the OO.o window has a box that indicates the > language used for that document. To change to a different language for > spellchecking, highlight all the text in the document, then right click on > that box indicating the language of the document and select the language you > want. > > -- > Larry I. Gusaas >
Thanks for pointing this out, Larry ! I've always been looking for a way to get this feature into the toolbars at the top of the page, which rendered me blind and unable to see that it was already there in the menu at the bottom of the page ! A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.... Henri
