Issue 128259 - The Spell Checker no longer recognises any words in Writer or Calc
Summary: The Spell Checker no longer recognises any words in Writer or Calc
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of issue 121930
Alias: None
Product: General
Classification: Code
Component: spell checking (show other issues)
Version: 4.1.7
Hardware: PC Windows 10
: P5 (lowest) Normal (vote)
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Reported: 2020-01-07 15:42 UTC by Kathy
Modified: 2020-01-07 20:57 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Issue Type: DEFECT
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2020-01-07 15:42 UTC, Kathy 		no flags Details
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Description Kathy 2020-01-07 15:42:29 UTC 
Created attachment 86807 [details]
Document with a screen shot of the problem

Without warning Open Office stopped recognising any words.  I changed the spell checker to a different language and back again but it still doesn't work.  I checked and found that I was using version 4.1.6 so I installed 4.1.7 but it still doesn't work.  Every word is underlined in red and if I go to the spell checker in the menu it stops at every word.  I have attached a sample screen print
Comment 1 oooforum (fr) 2020-01-07 19:19:48 UTC 
Already reported so many times.
Next time, please make a search before posting.

*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of issue 121930 ***
Comment 2 Keith N. McKenna 2020-01-07 19:48:57 UTC 
There is a work around involving a script. The instructions and script can be found at the following:
https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=74&t=85529
Comment 3 Kathy 2020-01-07 20:57:14 UTC 
Thank you.  I copied %AppData% to the Windows search bar.  In the list of folders I renamed Open Office to Open Office.old.  Restarted Open Office and it created a new folder with defaults and the problem has gone!
Comment 4 Kathy 2020-01-07 20:57:44 UTC 
(In reply to oooforum (fr) from comment #1)
> Already reported so many times.
> Next time, please make a search before posting.
> 
> *** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of issue 121930 ***

I did search and couldn't find this exact same problem