On Fri, 2006-08-04 at 19:25 +0100, Andy Pepperdine wrote: > On Friday 04 August 2006 18:16, Tiberio Feliz Murias wrote: > > Dear all > > > > - I have 4 languages to spell (French, English, Spanish, and Portuguese) > > - I am writing a text in Spanish. > > - Al the options are selected with Spanish. > > - The correct Spanish words have no problem. > > - But, when there is a mistake in a Spanish word, Writer selects the > > English dictionary. > > - So the list of words that it offers is in English. > > - So I have to change the language at each time. > > - But next time, in the next error, it repeats the same problem. > > > > Who could help me? > > > > Tiberio Feliz, UNED, Spain > > I haven't seen your problem, but the following may help you check that you > have set things up right for each paragraph and piece of text. > > 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. >
All of the above and then one more step. Make your styles language neutral by setting the font language to <None> This will check in all your installed languages, if I remember correctly. You can double-check that you have the settings outlined in Help > Contents > Index > Search term > spellcheck;activating for all languages -- PLEASE KEEP MESSAGES ON THE LIST. OpenOffice.org Documentation Co-Lead http://documentation.openoffice.org/
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