I'm able to make F7 work with these instructions, but when i
rightclick a US spelling, it still says "Word is English (USA)" (which
could be a feature instead of a bug if "is" means "is" and not "its
language setting is") and even "Paragraph is English (USA)".
Dispplying that "Word is English (USA)" is a feature hinting if the
language attribute of the word would be set to that language it would
be considered correct. This message is only shown when it was found
incorrect in the language it was being checked with.
So i guessed correctly that this is a (badly worded) feature, not a bug.
This is such an impressive feature that it should be mentioned in a list
of advantages over MS Word. Is there even such a list?
(skip down a few paragraphs if you're not interested in marketing)
It's a crying shame that the main page www.openoffice.org is so dreary,
stark, and uninformative. If it at least had a line like "Click here to
read about its great features."! Only very few users will think of
clicking the link at the words "office suite" which takes one to
www.openoffice.org/product/index.html , which is bit better but still
not anywhere near the kind of layout and reduced text content that would
be suitable for 90% of the population.
When one sees the dreariness and amateurism of the press kit page
http://www.openoffice.org/press/2.0/index.html it becomes obvious that
they need some major help in marketing. The strange thing is that
OpenOffice is proud to have a bigger marketing project than other open
source projects do. In fact, they naively think they're unique:
http://about.openoffice.org/index.html#marketing
The marketing project's own page http://marketing.openoffice.org/ is
almost user friendly, but it seems they're not aloud to redesign the
horrible main page www.openoffice.org
If you see "Word is English (USA)" and "Paragraph is English (USA)"
being displayed and you click one of them the word or the whole
paragraph will get the language attribute English USA set.
To be user friendly, these should definitely be reworded, e.g.
"Set word to English (USA)"
"Set paragraph to English (USA)"
If you want to know what a language attribute a specific word has
(because that will be the language it is going to be spellchecked with)
just select the word and open the "Format/Character" dialog. There is a
tab-page named "Font" and the language being used is the one you will
find there.
Thanks. However, this is very unintuitive and very bad UI. It should
obviously be where almost all users will look for it, and not only
because it's there in MS Word: tools > language.
Also if you use the spellcheck dialog by pressing F7 it always displays
in the titlebar the language for the word currently being checked.
Yes, i noticed that.
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