On Monday 03 April 2006 00:30, Michael Pott wrote: > Hello: > > I have recently installed open office 2.0.2 and found that I was unable > to implement the spellcheck or thesaurus function. When the icon is > activated to check a word it simply comes up and the dialog box says > "Spellcheck Complete". All boxes in the dialog box show up as empty. > Following the Tools>Options>WritersAids settings makes no difference. > As well all the required dictionaries are installed. It works fine in > scalc.
Languages in OpenOffice To obtain the relevant dictionaries, go to File -> Wizards -> Install new dictionaries and download the ones you want. To set the default language for your installation, go to Tools -> Options -> Language Settings / Languages and set the default for all your documents. If there is a dictionary for your selection, there will be a tick mark against it. 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. > > In addition I have not been able to change the default date format from > say 4/2/06 to April 2, 2006. I have however written a macro that will > do so but as far as I can tell that should not have been necessary. MS > Office allows you to select the default format from a relatively lengthy > list of options. Insert -> Fields -> Other -> Document tab -> Date will give you a set of options for date formats. I don't know how a default for an installation can be set, and I use different templates with dates pre-set in different formats depending on what the documents are for. -- 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]
