Steve Gwynne wrote:
Everytime I use spellchecker it always defaults to Eng-USA despite changing all the setting in tools>options>language and writing aids to Eng-UK. Whilst using spellchecker I can change to Eng-UK but it changes back to ENG-USA everytime I go to a new word. Also Eng-Uk is ticked so dictionary is installed. How frustrating and otherwise the software is great.
The list box under Tools -> Options -> Language Settings -> Writing Aids -> Edit is a key to the large window below, allowing you to see modules and sub-modules available for the language selected in the list box and to turn those modules and sub-modules on or off. The only reason English (USA) always appears here when you enter this dialog box is because it happens to be the first language in the list in the list box, not because this dialog box is setting the language.
Language in an OOo document is set as part of styles in OpenOffice.org. You are probably attempting to spell check in documents where the Default paragraph style and some or all other styles have the language attribute of "English (USA)" rather than "English (UK)".
Press F11 to bring up the StyleList. Select "Default" from the list, right-click it, select "Modify", select the "Font" tab, and change the language setting for that style to "English (UK)". This should mostly cascade down to other styles. (You can check for any other styles you are using.)
If you have been doing direct formatting, you may also have to select your entire document (via CTRL-A), select Format -> Character -> Font and set the language to English (UK) here also.
To set things up properly, create a new blank document, set the language to "English (UK)" under Tools -> Options -> Language Settings -> Languages, and then set the Default paragraph style as outlined above, if it is not already so set. Also check the character styles in the Stylelist under the A icon in the Stylelist, then do File -> Templates -> Save, giving it suitable name for your normal template, such as Normal-Writer or Default-Writer or some such.
Next go to File -> Templates -> Organize, find your template under "My Templates", select it, right-click, and choose "Set As Default Template". All new documents will now be created from that template with any style settings you have saved to it, including language settings.
Of course documents not created by yourself may have different language attributes assigned to text or documents you have previously created by have other language attributes assigned to some or all of the text.
Please send any response or further questions you might have only to the mailing list [email protected]
As you seem not be subscribed to this mailing list, a copy of this post is also being sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Jallan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
