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I think there is some other issues going on with this user and Ubuntu will not fix the problem. The person will be a Windows user and not a Linux user in the foreseeable future.
Where is he getting a 28MB or a 108 MB version of LO is my concern. I do not remember Windows LO being that small.
Then there is the comment of being a use for 3 years. LO 3.3.0 came out in the beginning of last year, so it has not be out for 3 years yet.
If the person installed a version of LO that is not the proper file size, then there will be trouble.
I think the best thing to do is a complete uninstall of LO and then download a fresh copy from the web site and make sure what is downloaded matches the file size of the package. 




On 10/12/2012 11:34 AM, Tom Davies wrote:

Hi :)
I think what i would be tempted to do at this stage, since you have
put so much time&effort in is to resize the Win7 partition to around
  30-50Gb and then get an Ubuntu Cd and install Ubuntu on however much
space you have left (assuming you have over 15Gb to spare).  Ubuntu
comes with tons of programs already installed so it very usable right
from the start.
http://www.ubuntu.com/
The download button is halfway down the left side, just under the title "Rock Solid".


Windows is a Pita to install.  I think probably a lot of people on this list share your pain as 
there are probably a lot us here that have had to try it too.  With hindsight i think it's usually 
best to stick with whatever is already on the machine but just shrink the partition as small as 
reasonably possible and then use the rest of the space for the new install of whatever.

Win7 is great once it's installed and got all the programs but it sounds like yours has something 
wrong with it, or with the LO install or something.  Like i say it is a total pain to install.


Not that once you have created the Ubuntu Cd you can boot-up straight from the Cd without even installing it so 
you can test-drive the look&feel of Ubuntu.  We call it a "Live Cd session".  You can make a Usb 
one which is a lot faster but people often still call it LiveCd even if it's Usb.
Regards from
Tom :)








________________________________
From: Lostsoul <joyseyhere@yahoo.com>
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Sent: Friday, 12 October 2012, 16:10
Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: Auto and Manual Spell do not work . .

OHHH my to much to do wonder if its worth it i miss vista everything worked like a charm first must 
re install the newest biggest version; so much bloody crap to install - and i openned not saved  -  
later  . . .

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From: krackedpress [via Document Foundation Mail Archive] <ml-node+s969070n4012932h11@n3.nabble.com>
Subject: Re: Auto and Manual Spell do not work . .
To: "Lostsoul" <joyseyhere@yahoo.com>
Date: Friday, October 12, 2012, 11:03 AM



Did you try to open the file in the browser or download it? Right-Click
and do a "save link as".

Once you download a ".oxt" extension file, dictionary or other, then you
open LibreOffice.  Go to "Tools" and then "extension manager".  Use the
"Add" option.

My American, British, and Canadian dictionaries are listed in the
Extension Center, but hosted externally.

The quickest way to get them is go directly to my current dictionary
page on the NA-DVD web site.

http://libreoffice-na.us/English-3.5-installs/dictionary.html#english

My dictionaries start with "kpp".

This is a direct link to my largest American English dictionary and
thesaurus - 773,407 spelling words in its word list.  The British and
Canadian versions are at about 639,000 words.

http://libreoffice-na.us/English-3.5-installs/add-on-dictionaries-large-list/kpp-american-english-dictionary-plus-tech-words-773407-words.oxt
<http://libreoffice-na.us/English-3.5-installs/dictionary.html#english>
I use LO 3.5.6 right now, but there should be no issues with the .oxt
extensions, dictionary or other types, with the 3.6.x line.


On 10/12/2012 08:02 AM, Lostsoul wrote:


Just wonderful tryed the first link and all i get is and i quote -  " OTX file not supported "
I must ask have you ever used windows 7 and libre ? ? 

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From: Tom [via Document Foundation Mail Archive] <[hidden email]>
Subject: Re: Auto and Manual Spell do not work . .
To: "Lostsoul" <[hidden email]>
Date: Friday, October 12, 2012, 7:05 AM


Hi :)
I think it's one of the Extensions on this page
http://extensions.libreoffice.org/extension-center/american-british-canadian-spelling-hyphen-thesaurus-dictionaries

Extensions are probably best known as Add-ons or Plug-ins in other projects.  Extensions is the 
older word and really needs to be modernised and upgraded to one of the newer names that people do 
tend to recognise because it's just confusing now.  The word has been used to mean other things 
that we often need to talk about in LO.  The main page is
http://extensions.libreoffice.org/extension-center
but often other 3rd party Extensions can be found in all sorts of odd places and OpenOffice 
Extensions probably also still work.  Some won't though and as the projects diverge less of the AOO 
or old OOo ones will be compatible.

I just stumbled on this article by the Unixmen mag
http://www.unixmen.com/ten-nice-extensions-for-libreoffice/
I've never used any of them but spotted one i really liked the look of so i've downloaded it and 
double-clicked it to see if it "does what it says on the tin"

Regards from
Tom :)








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From: Lostsoul <[hidden email]>
To: [hidden email]
Sent: Friday, 12 October 2012, 11:41
Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: Auto and Manual Spell do not work . .

beats me how do i try that /

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From: Tom [via Document Foundation Mail Archive] <[hidden email]>
Subject: Re: Auto and Manual Spell do not work . .
To: "Lostsoul" <[hidden email]>
Date: Friday, October 12, 2012, 4:10 AM


Hi :)
I thought most people that had trouble with spell-checkers fixed it by just downloading and 
installing one of the dictionaries from the NA (North American) Dvd Project?  I think they are 
oxt's so just downloading and then double-clicking on the downloaded file.

Ubuntu is another operating system.  Win7 is an operating system.  Xp was/is.  OS X is.  Each has 
it's own advantages and disadvantages.

Regards form
Tom :)


--- On Fri, 12/10/12, Lostsoul <[hidden email]> wrote:

From: Lostsoul <[hidden email]>
Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: Auto and Manual Spell do not work . .
To: [hidden email]
Date: Friday, 12 October, 2012, 2:44

       Ok  what is Ubuntu i have no idea; never used it so whats the 411 on it; hows it work and 
whats the checking system you use maybe i should try it hum; might help me nail and fix the no 
spell check   -  later  .  .  .

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From: krackedpress [via Document Foundation Mail Archive] <[hidden email]>
Subject: Re: Auto and Manual Spell do not work . .
To: "Lostsoul" <[hidden email]>
Date: Thursday, October 11, 2012, 9:16 PM



I know many users that have Win7 and their LO package works fine.

I know of users that have this spelling issue with Vista and XP.

It is not an issue that can be easily replicated, since only a few
people seem to have trouble with the spell checking system.  If the
issue cannot be easy replicated, it becomes very hard to find what code
or combination of code is causing the problem on only certain systems.
It could be something as weird as some problem in the Win7 registry that
is corrupted that could be causing the problem.  I have to run a
checking system every so ofter to fix the registry errors that happen on
my various XP and Vista systems I deal with from time to time [mine and
others].

Oh well, that is why I have been running Ubuntu since 2009 on my main
desktop and on various servers and laptops before then.


On 10/11/2012 08:11 PM, Robert Burns wrote:



        Hummm thinking wonder if i could copy and paste a doc to Libre then follow you ideas or do 
i have to invent;  type up a new doc and tryed out Open Office and I B M  lotus and they both hate 
both windows 7 amazing that can t get fixed so far;  looking at other office programs maybe they 
all don t hate win 7 -  theirs a bunch of free ones its amazing - later .

--- On Thu, 10/11/12, Tom Davies <[hidden email]> wrote:


From: Tom Davies <[hidden email]>
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Auto and Manual Spell do not work . .
To: "Lostsoul" <[hidden email]>, "[hidden email]" <[hidden email]>
Date: Thursday, October 11, 2012, 8:14 AM




Hi :)
I think just try exactly what you have described.
1.  Just save the file
2.  close the file
3.  double-click to open it
4.  click on the spell-check button

If step 3 opens the file in anything other than LibreOffice then
1.  close the file again
2.  right-click on the file's icon, a menu should appear
3.  in that right-click menu choose "Open with ..."
4.  Hopefully LibreOffice Writer should be in there.  If not then at the bottom there is usually something 
like "more programs".  LibreOffice's various programs/modules (Writer, Calc etc) should be in there.

If that doesn't work or starts looking far too complicated then
1.  Open LibreOffice but do
File - Close
to get back to the LO splash-screen that offers a choice of which module to open.
2.  Instead of opening a module just drag the file's icon into the LO window

Probably the 1st set of 4 steps will do the trick.  The rest is just in case it's being awkward.  I 
have forgotten which OS you are using but they are all pretty much the same except Mac.  However, there 
are slight differences so please let us know which OS you are using to get better detail.  Windows?  
Xp, Win7?  Ubuntu, Mageia, Fedora openSUSE or some other flavour of Gnu&Linux?  OS X or other Mac?  
It seems unlikely you are using a BSD (unless you count Mac) but if you are there might still be 
someone on this list using it although i think they tend to go off to the devs list fairly quickly or 
use their own down-stream forums/lists.
Regards from
Tom :)












From: Lostsoul <[hidden email]>
To: [hidden email]
Sent: Thursday, 11 October 2012, 12:41
Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: Auto and Manual Spell do not work . .

        Can i save a document then re open it in Libre that re open in Libre are have it spelled 
checked to fix a mis spelled word that was missed earlyier and if so how?

--- On Thu, 10/11/12, Jean-Francois Nifenecker [via Document Foundation Mail Archive] <[hidden 
email]> wrote:


From: Jean-Francois Nifenecker [via Document Foundation Mail Archive] <[hidden email]>
Subject: Re: Auto and Manual Spell do not work . .
To: "Lostsoul" <[hidden email]>
Date: Thursday, October 11, 2012, 2:05 AM


Hello,

Le 11/10/2012 02:22, Lostsoul a écrit :

Ok using Libre version 3.6.2.2 and my auto spell doesn t and even worse when
i click on manual spell check all i get is the stupid question do i want to
start at the top; i click yes

I think that question is not stupid. Some people just want to start
spellchecking at the current location. YMMV.


but then i get the boot telling me its all
finished and it isn t ! ?

So whats that crap all about and how do i fix it  ? ?   H E L P  waiting . .


Check that in Format / Characters the language is defined as you wish.
If it is defined as [none] no wonder you get the behaviour you're meeting.

The best way to fix the undefined language is to set the underlying
paragraph style:
(the paragraph being selected or the insertion point being in the faulty
paragraph)
1. F11 (or Format / Styles and formatting). A new toolbar shows up.
2. Make sure the Paragraph styles list is selected (first toolbutton
from the left)
2. Right-Click the selected style name
3. Select Change
4. In the Font page, go to Language list. Set the language to the
desired value.
5. Validate

And you're set!

Note: I'm using an FR interface. The menus and options names above are
freely translated.

HTH,

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