Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 47108
spellcheck does not work or its use is not intuitive at all
Last modified: 2014-12-11 20:21:23 UTC
I used dictionary wizard and downloaded french dictionary with it. changed default language to default then to french typed in writer some french word with errors, neither was corrected. ooo191 crashed with "microsoft c++ inexistent function call " or something similar. In msword, use spellcheck is a lot of easier. I can change language in menu and not only in tools->options->language. if I change language in msword, the words are subligned, but not in oooo.
it seems working now
yesterday, spell checking worked for french language, but today, I am unable to use the spellchecker. I in toos->options->language setting I set the current document setting to french, and trying to set the writing aids->spell checker to french and ok, it becames always english and impossible to set it to french. btw, this is my biggest problem with ooo, it is unusable in matter of spellchecking (i use normally multiple languages and switch spellchecker is a big big pain if not impossible)
I think I identified the problem: if I start a blank new document from the start bar in windows, I could use the spellcheck function with the desired language, but *if I start editing a Msword document with ooo (both 2.0 beta & 1.1.4) and save or not as swx, spellcheck does not work.* I think this is a bug. btw, it would be better a simpler language interface, eg. tools->language list of languages .... .... []current document only []selected text only []current paragraph only etc. (i am not an interface designer, but it would be more simple, at least for me)
*** Issue 48975 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
It would be really good to have a good spellcheck option in ooo. For example, in place of the obscurous altlinuxhyph, myspell etc thing it would be more adequat fewer options. For example: language: french, and that is all, and the spellchecking were working. Fewer is sometimes more, I think. I am a bit deceved now, because, once again, I wanted to change the language of a document originally msword, and it did not work. If it is hardly formatted with headers and footers, it is impossible to copy and paste to a new document that would allow really to change language. keep the good work.
I just wanted to use the standard American English dictionary, but whenever I turn spell check on, it gives me a red squiggly underline under every word unless I personally add it to the standard dictionary. I must be doing something wrong, but I can't figure out what it is. henry@farkasonline.com
Open the %APPDATA%\OpenOffice\4\user folder, and remove the 'extensions' folder found there. If you are too stingy to pay for the normal software, you should not complain when you have to get your hands dirty from time to time.