Open Office Writer
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Open Office Writer
For the last few months I have been using Open Office 4.1.1, as I lost MS Word etc when my old hard drive waas replaced. I was pleased to find Open Office Writer can produce perfectly good .doc documents. All was well, until the weekend. No idea what caused it to change, but....
On Saturday I tried opening a .doc file, only to find that every single word was underlined with a red wiggly line as if it was incorrectly spelt. A bit more investigation showed that only single capital letters or numbers were not underlined this way.
Today, I have download dict-en.oxt, open the Writer and gone to Tools ==> Extension Manager ==>Add and tried adding it, but it still does the same. Tried Restart - nothing. Tried uninstalling Open Office and then Reinstalling it. It STILL does the same.
Arggh!
I would not care if I could get the spellchecker to find spelling mistakes, but it thinks everything (except capital letters and numbers) is wrong.
Any ideas? Am I missing something obvious?
On Saturday I tried opening a .doc file, only to find that every single word was underlined with a red wiggly line as if it was incorrectly spelt. A bit more investigation showed that only single capital letters or numbers were not underlined this way.
Today, I have download dict-en.oxt, open the Writer and gone to Tools ==> Extension Manager ==>Add and tried adding it, but it still does the same. Tried Restart - nothing. Tried uninstalling Open Office and then Reinstalling it. It STILL does the same.
Arggh!
I would not care if I could get the spellchecker to find spelling mistakes, but it thinks everything (except capital letters and numbers) is wrong.
Any ideas? Am I missing something obvious?
Last edited by WE Branch Fanatic; 19th Dec 2014 at 17:17. Reason: BTW This old PC still has XP.
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It seems to me that OO thinks the documents are in a language other than what you have it set to. Not having OO open in front of me right now, can you look in 'preferences' and see if you might not have accidentally set it to some other language as the default?
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Gone to Spelling which identifies the text langauge as English (UK), but then highlights the word 'Title' as incorrect. The Langauge settings appear to be for English (UK) as well.
