Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 24462
Spell Checker Problems - Documentation
Last modified: 2013-02-24 20:43:14 UTC
I recently began working in Germany again and took some old english documents as a template. I wondered why the spell checker did not work, although everything in the Options was correctly set. It came out that each paragraph can also be assigned to a language and this was the problem. Once I switches the paragraph styles to the correct language, everything was fine. I noticed that many users do have this problem and I think a notice in the Options / Language Settings Menu woould totally solve this problem. In general, I like the idea of having the possibility to assign each paragraph another language.
Created attachment 25839 [details] This document does not get spell checked properly...see comment commited by hellboi64
I have found this to be true in OpenOffice 2.0 Beta 680. I had to go into Edit Paragraph Style... -> Font and change the language to English. I have no idea why it does this, I only speak English and I do not have any other languages installed on my computer. I have attached the document in its corruptive form...I don't know if it will help or not.
I have a similar problem with German and English. I have an English installation and installed the German dictionary on top. I opened a document of german and tried to spell check it as German. However, while the spellchecker shows (English(UK)) when English(UK) is selected, it shows () when German(Germany) is select and no spellcheck is possible. If all the text is selected, then Format... Character... and the text changed to German(Germany), the spellcheck works OK. As far as I can tell this only affects the German dictionary, others, e.g. Italian, seem to work OK.