2007/5/19, Howard Coles Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
On Friday 18 May 2007 01:47:00 pm you wrote: > sir please forgive me for emailing you directly but i'm just about ready to > give up with open office writer. please find below a posting from a month > or two ago and your responce. i've been trying to solve this prob. for some > time as well but with no positive results. i use usa english and if were to > intentionally misspell a word ( ie. hme instead of home) i dont get the red > squigglyline below the misspelled word. Does OO has a builtin dictionary? > if not, this may be my problem. i use ms vista home. incidentally,windows > mail, the new email program for windows vista, has a spell checker. vista > does not come with outlook express etc.I would appreciate any help you can > give. BTW I did the tools>options>languages etc. advice and no luck. I even > deletedand reinstalled OO and still no luck. any other advice can you give > me will be greatly appreciated. God bless... Ok, generally speaking it is better to keep your responses & questions on the list, because the audience is larger. That means the number of folks who know more than me is therefore increased. :-D It sounds like "auto spell check" is not enabled. OOo does have or use a built in dictionary, I believe. However, I can be corrected there. Ok. Try this first: misspell a few words and click on, "Tools" -> (this symbol means next or then) "Spellcheck" (it will have an "F7" to the far right. You should get messages that you have misspelled words. If so, we're good on the spelling side. If that worked, Click on "Tools" -> "Options" In the "Options" dialog box, click on the "+" sign beside "Language Settings" then click on "Writing Aids". There will be three sections, and the bottom section is titled "Options" as well. At the top there should be an option labeled like "Check spelling as you type". Make sure there is a check mark in the box to the left of this option. If not click on the empty box once, and one should appear. Then click the "OK" button at the bottom of the Dialog box. This should turn on your auto spell checking. There is also a button on the tool bar that looks like "ABC" with a squigly line under it. If you click that button it turns on Auto spell checking for you. -- See Ya' Howard Coles Jr.
Take a look at these infos taken from previous threads: (1) Tutorial for Spell check and Language configuration http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=50862 <http://www.forum-openoffice.org/forum/ftopic2831.html> (2) 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. If you set up your styles for a language in an empty document and then save it as a template (File -> Templates -> Save), then you can select the appropriate one to start a new document with File -> New -> Templates and Documents -- Andy Pepperdine (3) **additional remark: you may need to close/reopen Quickstart before changes will work if your system uses QS...** -- Guy using dutch OOo 2.2 RC 4 on a iMac Intel DualCore Tiger and dutch OOo 2.2 RC 4 on a G4 PPC Powerbook Tiger -- please reply only to [email protected] -- Dodoes can't afford to have headaches
