At 10:29 17/05/2007 +0900, Iain W wrote:
I was wondering if anyone here can assist me with an issue I am facing.
I am using openoffice vs 2.03. I have been using OO for about 2.5 years
now.
About a month ago I installed the Indonesian language spell checker
module. Everything seemed to work ok. Then about 2 weeks ago I noted
that my documents were not being spell checked. I thought that perhaps
I had accidentally set the wrong language so I went back to options. BUT
I found that Indonesian as a language has vanished and no MATTER what I
set for a language OO spell checks in Czech - but since I do not have
that module installed it doesn´t spell check at all!
In desperation I unistalled and reinstalled but nothing changed. Would
I need to edit the registry? How can I do a complete clean uninstall?
Or is there another solution?
IW
When you look in the options, does the Indonesian
option have the ABC-and-tick icon beside it (as,
for example, English (USA) will have)? If so,
OpenOffice thinks it has the dictionary
installed; if not, it doesn't. If it doesn't,
then try reinstalling the dictionary.
If the spelling icon is present for Indonesian,
the problem is presumably just that the change
you are trying to make from Czech to Indonesian
doesn't stick. In this case, do you have the
Quickstarter running? If so, try temporarily
closing the Quickstarter and then making the
change. Will the change then work and
stick? (The Quickstarter sometimes keeps
relevant files open and prevents OpenOffice changing them.)
I don't think relevant settings are in the
registry. But there are configuration files
which were presumably responsible for carrying
the problem across your reinstallation. You
don't say what platform you are using. In
Windows, these files will be in C:\Documents and
Settings\<username>\Application
Data\OpenOffice.org2.0.3 (or similar). So to do
a clean reinstall, you need (1) to uninstall the
application in the normal way, (2) to delete or
to move this folder (and those for any other
users?), and (3) to reinstall the
application. That's what I would do if all else
fails, but it is some of these files that
Quickstarter seems to hang on to and prevent
modification of, so you might try the trick of closing that first.
Oh, and there's another possibility. Language is
a property of paragraph styles, so it may be that
whatever style you are using (Default?) has
somehow picked up Czech as its language. That
will override the default selection in the
options. Right-click in a suitable paragraph and
select Edit Paragraph Style... from the context
menu. The paragraph style's language is on the
Font tab. Does that say "Czech"? If so, that's your problem.
I trust this helps.
Brian Barker
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