On Tuesday 07 March 2006 20:33, Johnny Andersson wrote: > Someone sent me a MS Word file (doc), which originally was a pdf. Don't ask > me how he converted it to MS Word format, I don't know. > > I use the Swedish version of OOo 1.1.5 and everything I write is in > Swedish, so I have the Swedish spell checker installed and so on. > > Now, after opening the word file, I noticed that almost every word was > marked as wrong spelled, and I also noticed that when I reight clicked > them, English words were suggested. So I clicked Tools - Options - Language > and changed the document language setting from English to Swedish. However, > this didn't help. Those words were still marked as wrong spelled and > English words were still suggested when right clicking. I also tried to > restart OOo, but it didn't help. Where ever I look (Options - Language....) > everything is set to Swedish, but STILL it seems like it spell checks in > English. Obviously I missed something, but WHAT??? > > I also converted the MS Word file to a OOo Writer file (sxw) but that > didn't help at all. Still English spell checker. > > I also opened another document (sxw), which I created (in Swedish) earlier > today. This document was still spell checked in Swedish, just like it > should be, so obviously there is no global setting that have changed or > anything.
Your problem will be because the paragraph styles still say the paragraph is for English. It is important to remember that language is an attribute of the text of a document, and can be set differently in different parts of the same document. This allows foreign language quotes to be separately checked against the appropriate dictionary. To set the default for a document that is different from the default setting for all other documents, when you have opened the document (or started a new one) go to the Default style and change it there. F11 (or Format -> Styles and Formatting) brings up the style list. Right click on Default (or the root style for your document) go to Modify -> Font tab where you can set the language for this style and will be carried down to other styles derived from it unless otherwise changed. To change the language for a piece of text, highlight the text and go to Format -> Character -> Font tab (or right click -> Character -> Font) where you can set the language for just that portion of text. -- Andy Pepperdine On this mailing list help is provided by volunteers. Please subscribe to the mailing list to see all the replies to a query, and reply only to the mailing list at [EMAIL PROTECTED] For FAQ, userguide, see: http://documentation.openoffice.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
