It’ll be words with missing letters that couldn’t possibly be correct, but spell check never flags them even while other words are getting flagged. for those of you who use open office, with a dictionary that is doing spell check, have you ever had an issue where words that are clearly misspelled are STILL not getting flagged? Most of my typos are getting flagged, but not all of them. I suggest if you have these settings with the box unchecked and old files are still not working right open each document, and apply the check box and it should work properly. If you leave it unchecked it will apply to all documents. If you tick off the box next to “For the current document only” it will apply those languages to just that document. Under “Default Languages for Documents – Western” select the same working language/dictionary. Under “Language of – User Interface” select the new language/dictionary (the one that’s working for spell check) To fix this problem in your older documents open them in Open Office, then under the “tools” menu select: Options / Language Settings / Languages
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Start writer -> file ->wizards -> install new dictionaries -> english -> start dicOOo button -> English -> next -> retrieve the list -> English (Australia) -> (repeat for hyphenation dictionaries and thesaurus dictionaries -> next (to start the download) -> finish -> restart OOo Start writer -> tools -> options -> Language Settings -> Languages -> Default languages for documents -> western -> pick either english (UK) or english (USA) -> OK -> restart openoffice.Ī more “correct” way of doing it is to install the correct dictionary by: The easiest fix is to use either USA english or UK english by: The problem will happen with any of the following english variants: I open a new office document, make some deliberate mis-spellings, but OOowriter doesn’t flag any of them… WTF?Īfter some research, I find that openoffice only installs the spell checker for US and UK English. Once installed, I open an existing word document, and I see it does the usual spell check, with the wavy red line under suspect words.Īnd running the spell check finds some spelling mishtakes. So I figure OpenOffice is the quickest solution. Check if your spell checker works after applying this fix.
I transfer the data across to a slightly newer XP system… I can edit & print documents, so my job is done.īut I get called back the next day, as wordpad doesn’t have a “page counter”, nor a spell checker (which was on the old PC… I eventually figure out he was using MS word.Ĭustomer doesn’t have any install media (his son set it up a while ago). Here, make sure that the 'Do not check spelling or grammar' box is unchecked. It was a very old IBM, and it would get stuck at startup, displaying B4 in the top corner (probably a motherboard failure).
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I had a customer that urgently needed to get his old win98 PC fixed. Note: if you just want a quick answer to the subject of this post (with no background story), then go to the end.