Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 43292
Explorer context menu: Spellcheck quits working
Last modified: 2005-02-22 07:52:15 UTC
Explorer context menu created files: Spellcheck quits working after first session. I searched a few different ways, and didn't find this one. Odd, it's been broken like this for the last few versions. I'm probably just an oddball with the way I use my machine. Verified on two different systems. 1. Right click on the desktop (or any explorer folder) pick 'New', make a 'New OpenOffice 1.1.4 Text Document'. 3. Open it. Type some bogus text into it (Spellchecker works) 4. Save & quit. 5. Open it again. After step 5, Spellcheck doesn't work, and will never work again on this file. Even if you "save as" using this file, Spellcheck and AutoSpellcheck don't work. Work around: If you create and save a NEW document from the OpenOffice application menu File->New, then copy/paste the text from the bent file where Spellcheck doesn't work into it, Spellcheck works again, and continues to work forever in the new file. What I've noticed is a 3K length file is created by OpenOffice wherever you right-clicked and used the shell context menu to make a file. I suspect that the file the shell context menu handler writes here has a problem in it, and that this issue could be fixed by replacing that default file in future installs.
Problem is, that no document language is set, when creatig a document via Explorer or Desktop. See issue 29485. As a workaround in this case, edit the "Default" paragraph style and assign a language manually on the "Font" tabpage. *** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 29485 ***
Closed.