At 23:35 11/02/2008 +0900, James Elliott - WA Rural Computers wrote:
I was helping my wife type up a wedding ceremony and found that the spell checker would not work. ... it was a recent but pre-existing document we were working on ... not a new one. I went into Tools > Options > Language settings > etc and found that English(Australian) was selected, ... What I did in the end was to Select, Copy, and Paste the entire document into a new, blank, OOo Text document and spell checked it there - the spell checker worked in the new document, ... Have any of you any idea why my spell checker would not check the older document?
Yes. The setting in Tools is the *default* language setting, so that will apply to your new document - which is why that works properly. But language is also a property of paragraph style as well as of character formatting. So your original document either had its paragraph style or styles set to another language, or else had another language set at the character level. (Perhaps you created it before you set up your default language correctly?) Had you not overwritten the file, you could go to right-click | Edit Paragraph Style... | Font to see the first; and select text, then right-click | Character... | Font to see the second.
If you set a language for which you do not have an installed dictionary, Writer will find no errors and suggest everything is hunky-dory - just as you describe.
I trust this helps. Brian Barker --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
