Fw: [libreoffice-users] Re: Auto and Manual Spell do not work _ _

-----Original Message----- 
From: VA
Sent: Monday, October 15, 2012 9:55 AM
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Auto and Manual Spell do not work _ _

Dear Lost Soul,

I may regret trying to be helpful, but let me share a similar experience I
recently had with Apache OpenOffice.

I have been using OpenOffice since version 1.0 and StarOffice before that.
In December, 2010, I got a Sony Win7 laptop. I never had a problem with
OpenOffice on my Win7 machine.

Then came the great Oracle/TDF schism and LibreOffice was born. I downloaded
LibreOffice and began using it, again without any problems with my Win7
machine.

About a year later, Apache finally came out with its version of OpenOffice.
I downloaded it to my Win7 computer, and that's when my spelling problems
began. Now, remember that I had had previous versions of OpenOffice on my
computer and, when I downloaded the new Apache OpenOffice, I hadn't made any
changes to my user profile. It was the same user profile that dated back to
OpenOffice 3.0.

My spelling problem was different than yours, but I think they might have a
similar cause (but, remember, I'm not a geek, just a user). In my case,
Apache OpenOffice simply refused to recognize the English(USA) dictionary.
It reported every word as being misspelled. It also refused to hyphenate any
word. The program said that the dictionary was in place; it just refused to
apply it.

I tried downloading new English(USA) dictionary files and that didn't work.
So finally, I cursed the Apache folks for offering a defective product, and
uninstalled the program.

Now, when a program is uninstalled, Windows does NOT uninstall local
configuration files. So every time you uninstall/reinstall or upgrade to a
newer version, the new program will simply load on top of the old user
configuration files.

So, as a last ditch attempt, after uninstalling Apache OpenOffice, I decided
to completely delete my configuration folder. On my computer, the OpenOffice
configuration folder was found in:
c:\users\<username>\appdata\roaming\openoffice.org\3\. (The files for
LibreOffice would be in a similar folder named
c:\users\<username>\appdata\roaming\libreoffice\3\.

I completely deleted the folder at the "openoffice.org" level. This meant
the computer deleted the openoffice.org folder, along with the subfolder "3"
and all subfolders below that.

I then reinstalled Apache OpenOffice and, since then, I haven't had a
problem with the spell checker. It works just fine.

Now, I run both Apache OpenOffice and LibreOffice. I figure that, over time,
one of the programs will clearly outshine the other in terms of the features
I prefer and then I can use only one. But, for now, I bounce back and forth
between the two. (Sometimes, I'll even use Lotus Symphony, another fork of
OpenOffice. I really like its tabbed interface, and I can't understand why
neither Apache nor Libre have adopted it.)

So, Lost Soul, or anyone else with similar problems, don't forget the user
configuration folders. For me, it worked to delete them entirely and start
over. There may be better solutions; for me, I lost all my templates and
styles, etc., but since I use similar templates and styles in Libre, I was
able to recreate everything fairly easily.

Virgil

-----Original Message----- 
From: Felmon Davis
Sent: Sunday, October 14, 2012 6:35 AM
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Auto and Manual Spell do not work _ _

On Sun, 14 Oct 2012, Lostsoul wrote:

>       Ok why have i never had a word problem with vista but since i have 
> had win 7 64 bit for 2 months now on a lap top; Asus to be exact i can t 
> get any word programs spell / grammer check to work for me yet ?  ?
>
>        Seems like spell check works with one word then a second word but 
> can t find four or five mis spelled words in a doc that i close then i 
> open some days later and sees no mis spelled words ? ?
>
>   I wonder if spell grammer checkers that come with word programs for win 
> 7 can t do both that is underline a mis spelled word as you type and 
> correct or underline then the user manually corrects it and then i assume 
> it should correct mis spelled words after i reopen a saved doc;  i always 
> though it could do both but on win 7 can t figure out how to get that to 
> happen.
> It works both ways on vista but can t get it to work both ways on win 7 
> yet; hum wonder if word programs need that red underline for any spell 
> checking; and the lines aren t saving for win 7 so that leaves spell check 
> clueless on a saved doc?
>
>  How was that a serious question;  Ok  -  Later

no, not at all a serious question; for one thing, you already know you
are over-generalizing since you know not everyone has your problem. I
certainly have no idea how frequent your problem (or problems) are and
you don't seem to know either.

but sorry I brought up the 'serious question' issue. can we have a
sense of where things actually stand? in particular I wonder when you
downloaded a _legitimate_ copy of LO, the spell-checker didn't work;
so did you follow-through and install the extension?

you were given instructions on how to install extensions. did you
follow those instructions? there were so many emails and so many
topics, I lost track and I bet some of your potential helpers may have
lost track too. if you did, was there an error message? what was the
result?

not that it's worth much but I remembered I have a netbook here I can
boot to Windows, some version of Windows 7. I installed LO on it,
opened a document and ran spell-check. one swallow (=bird) does not a
spring make, as Aristotle said, but I didn't see any problems (opened
a document on a usb drive). I conclude word programs don't always hate
Windows 7.

good luck with all of this. other folks here know LO better than I do.

F.

> --- On Sun, 10/14/12, Felmon Davis [via Document Foundation Mail Archive] 
> <ml-node+s969070n4013196h95@n3.nabble.com> wrote:
>
>
> From: Felmon Davis [via Document Foundation Mail Archive] 
> <ml-node+s969070n4013196h95@n3.nabble.com>
> Subject: Re: Auto and Manual Spell do not work x
> To: "Lostsoul" <joyseyhere@yahoo.com>
> Date: Sunday, October 14, 2012, 4:56 AM
>
>
> On Sun, 14 Oct 2012, Lostsoul wrote:
> >      Haha very funny that know one can tell me why word problems hate 
> > windows 7
>
> I think people have explained that 'word problems', that is, 
> word-processors, do not hate Windows 7. unless I'm misremembering, several 
> have indicated they are running Libreoffice in particular on Windows 7 
> without any issues. and a couple have had issues like yourself.
> this is par for the course - some have problems, some don't.
> why _you_ in particular are having trouble may relate in part to Andreas's 
> suggestion that you do a 'crash course' (he wrote 'crash curse' but maybe 
> that's freudian <g>).
> but if you want a serious answer, you need to follow normal etiquette and 
> protocol and ask a serious question.
> and note that it's sometimes a lot harder to pose a serious question about 
> computers than it is to answer it. sometimes your question has to provide 
> a careful understandable description of the problem (and best one problem 
> at a time).
> > never had any word programs hate vista so explain if you dare; you'd be 
> > the first why the word programs hate win 7 and why no one but no one has 
> > a fix; this i got to hear.   How do i turn off file extensions in windows 
> > 7 64 bit
>
> that's easy to google. remember this forum is about Libreoffice? just look 
> it up on google, you don't need to fuss with the '64 bit' part.
> for that matter, if you are having trouble with abiword, you also should 
> google or find a forum addressing that. (I don't use abiword but I assume 
> you do a 'save as' or 'export to' to get a Word document out of it but 
> best look it up and not rely on someone's guess.)
> I strongly back Andreas's idea that you get some help from someone nearby 
> or take a curse or something like that.
>     -  later . .
> F.
>
> > --- On Sun, 10/14/12, Andreas Säger [via Document Foundation Mail 
> > Archive] <[hidden email]> wrote: From: Andreas Säger [via Document 
> > Foundation Mail Archive] <[hidden email]> Subject: Re: Auto and Manual 
> > Spell do not work x To: "Lostsoul" <[hidden email]> Date: Sunday, October 
> > 14, 2012, 4:28 AM Am 14.10.2012 10:10, Lostsoul wrote:
> > >      Ok now what the crap; why are abiword documents being saved as 
> > > adobi docs how do i fix that can t get anything right crap .   -  later
> >
> > I strongly recommend some computer crash curse. File name associations 
> > are free.  There is nothing hard wired to the system. You can open any 
> > file with any program you want. You can tell your desktop environment 
> > which programs can open which types of files and which single program is 
> > the preferred one to be used on double-click. First of all, any user who 
> > is forced to use MS Windows should turn off the option to hide known file 
> > name extensions. Since Windows '95 this is the major obstacle which 
> > prevents people from understanding their system. -- 
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