On Friday, December 22, 2006 5:12 PM [GMT+1=CET], Hillary Hiner
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello, my name is Hillary Hiner. My brother installed open office on
my new laptop (Dell Inspiron E1505) in the States, and I am having a
lot of problems with installing the Spanish spellcheck. I live in
Santiago, Chile and almost everything I write is in Spanish (for my
university and job). I have downloaded many times the Spanish
dictionaries with the wizard and from the open office web page where
I registered as a user, but the same thing keeps happening. I get
the dictionary (for Chile or Spain) in the Languages section of the
Options (Tools) section but it doesn't have a spellcheck. The
installation directions for the dictionaries are hard to understand
and I'm not sure if it is a problem with the programs on my computer
reading the files (I downloaded Java in case but it didn't seem to
solve the problem) or if it is a problem with the files I'm
downloading. This is driving me insane!!!! Please help!!! Thank you
Hillary
First guess. Exit Quickstarter (System Tray, grey icon with 3 flying
birds, right click it and choose Exit) *before* installing the
dictionary. Once the dictionary is installed, exit OpenOffice
completely. Now, hopefully, when you re-start OpenOffice, the dictionary
should have the "abc" and its tick which means it's available for spell
checking.
If that doesn't work, please let us know and we'll have another go :-)
Harold Fuchs
London, England
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