On 9/21/2010 at 5:30 PM Brian Barker wrote: |At 12:04 21/09/2010 -0400, Mike Noname wrote: |>I like to have spell check enabled in word-processing documents, and |>disabled in spreadsheets. Is there a way to configure Open Office |>such that spell check is |>enabled when I open a new Writer document and disabled when I open a |>new Calc document? | |Yes, there is. | |o Set OpenOffice to check by default in your preferred |language. That will take care of text (Writer) documents. |o Open a new spreadsheet. |o Click in the top left corner, where the row and column headers |meet, in order to select the entire sheet. |o Go to Format | Cells... | Font | Language (or right-click | Format |Cells... | Font | Language) and select [None] from the drop-down list. |o Repeat for Sheet2 and Sheet3 if desired. |o Go to File | Templates > | Save..., give the template a name, and |save it somewhere - probably in My Templates. |o Go to File | Templates > | Organize..., browse to and select the |template, and then click Commands | Set As Default Template. | |This template will now be used when you create a new spreadsheet |(Calc) document, with the language set everywhere to None and |therefore no spelling checking. | |>Related to the above, is there a way to enable or disable spell |>check on a per-document basis, and have that spell check status be |>saved with the document file? | |Yes. For text (Writer) documents, go to Tools | Language > | For all |Text > | None (Do not check spelling). For spreadsheets, use Format || Cells... as above. | |I trust this helps. =============
Yes, those work-arounds do indeed provide the results I need. What else is affected by the language settings, besides spell-check? --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
