On Saturday 29 July 2006 19:23, Henry Till wrote: > To whom it may concern / > I am not able to make the auto spell checker nor use the spell checker. > I am using Windows XP sp2, Open Office v2 and if I am not using OO word > 2000. > > I have checked English as primary language,, unchecked both ELS boxes, in > writing aids I have English checked, but nothing seems to have any effect. > > If I highlight any miss spelled words and use the spell checker, the spell > checker opens and tells me it is finished with a small window within the > spell checker window. The small window closes everything. > > I have checked out all the information I could find on your web site in the > FAQ's but nothing seems to make any difference after having tried to change > things. > > Any help you could give me here would be very much appreciated. > > Henry Till
Which version of English do you want to use? US, British, Australian, etc. all have different dictionaries. 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. -- 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]
