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RE: [libreoffice-users] Re: Auto and Manual Spell do not work . .

"Dan Hall" <dihall -AT- myfairpoint.net>
Mon, 15 Oct 2012 11:53:18 -0400

Re. Tom Davies > "To "get back to factory defaults" and 'switch off' all
Extensions just rename your User Profile." <

I did this (renamed my User Profile) and now spell check works for me in
LibreOffice (Writer) 3.5.4.2 on Windows 7.

-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Hall [mailto:dihall@myfairpoint.net] 
Sent: Saturday, October 13, 2012 2:53 PM
To: 'Dan Hall'; 'Lostsoul'; users@global.libreoffice.org
Subject: RE: [libreoffice-users] Re: Auto and Manual Spell do not work . .

I posted here only to answer Lostsoul's question, i.e. "does anyone out
their use libre with win 7".  I do not need help per se.  I bought a new
desktop computer in May 2012 and it came with LibreOffice installed.  The
spell checker in LibreOffice did (does) not work so I purchased and
installed MS Office 2003, which I now use.

Note:  I signed on to the LibreOffice-users mailing list back then to see if
I could find any mention of spell checker problems.

-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Hall [mailto:dihall@myfairpoint.net] 
Sent: Saturday, October 13, 2012 10:03 AM
To: 'Lostsoul'; users@global.libreoffice.org
Subject: RE: [libreoffice-users] Re: Auto and Manual Spell do not work . .

I have LibreOffice 3.5.4.2 on Windows 7 and in Writer the spell check does
not work for spelling errors... it does however correct beginning of
sentence capitalization (automatically) and manual spell check complains of
extra spaces when they exist.

-----Original Message-----
From: Lostsoul [mailto:joyseyhere@yahoo.com] 
Sent: Friday, October 12, 2012 9:54 PM
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: Auto and Manual Spell do not work . .

     Not thinking of using ubanta was just asking about it ; and does anyone
out their use libre with win 7 so far i would guess its a  huge no and your
throwing out ramdom guess s as fixs.

And libre comes in three sizes on various freeware sites; not their home
page 28 mb and 120 mb and their web site has it at 210 mb and 10 mb for
help;  wonder what that is all about will get the biggy next hopefully that
works with win 7 the way it should  -  later   

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From: krackedpress [via Document Foundation Mail Archive]
<ml-node+s969070n4012954h93@n3.nabble.com>
Subject: Re: Auto and Manual Spell do not work . .
To: "Lostsoul" <joyseyhere@yahoo.com>
Date: Friday, October 12, 2012, 12:34 PM

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 <[hidden email]> 
To: [hidden email] 
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] <[hidden

email]>

Subject: Re: Auto and Manual Spell do not work . . 
To: "Lostsoul" <[hidden email]> 
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 :)

________________________________ 
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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Archive] <[hidden email]> wrote:



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

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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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