On Monday, October 02, 2006 7:11 PM [GMT+1=CET], Dan Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> On Monday 02 October 2006 04:47 am, peter fahy wrote:
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: peter fahy
>> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 4:28 PM
>> Subject: writer
>>
>>
>> I use open office 2.0. Normally, I write in English. I want to
>> write in Portuguese. I have the Portuguese spell check installed,
>> but I cannot make it work. What am i doing wrong?
>>
>> thanks Peter Fahy
>
> You must create a paragraph style for which Portuguese is the
> language. Then apply it to all the paragraphs you write in
> Portuguese. The spell check should then work.
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If I want to write a document *totally* in, say, Portuguese, do I have to
create Heading styles, normal styles, etc. etc.? My installation (2.0.3 on Win
XP Pro/SP2) *came with* 20 paragraph styles. Also, if I make my own style I'd
have to remember to make a version for each language I need. Ugh.
Isn't there some way to create a "Portuguese" template? Than I could create a
document from that and *automatically* everything would be in Portuguese.
Of course, I'd need a template for each language but that's a lot easier than
having to create 20 styles for each language. Presumably my "default" template
doesn't get overwritten so I wouldn't need one for my "main" language - the one
I originally installed.
Obviously this wouldn't work for mixed language documents. In this case it
seems I'd have to create multiple new styles - Heading 1, Heading 2 etc. This
strikes me as unnecessarily cumbersome.
Isn't there some way to select a whole set of (possibly differently styled)
paragraphs and say "check this lot in Portuguese, please". In MS Word I can do
exactly that (assuming, of course, I have the relevant dictionary properly
installed). I can't find the equivalent option in Writer. At least I think I
found where the option *should* be but ...
If, in Writer, I select some text, go to Tools>Spellcheck and select a
different language, it seems to have no effect whatsoever. For example, I have
UK English as my langauge so "color" is highlighted as an error. If I select
the word (or paragraph containing it) and then go to Tools>Spellcheck and
select US English, the error message "not in dictionary" persists, the
suggested corrections ("colour" in this case) disappear and, when I close the
Spellchecker, the word is still highlighted as an error. Have I found a bug? Or
just a serious shortcoming in OO?
Selecting "Check in all languages" is entirley counterproductive because then a
Portuguese word accidently inserted in an English paragraph would not be
highlighted as an error.
Help! Please.
Harold Fuchs
London, England
