Re: [libreoffice-users] language in an impress doc

Hi :)
Oops, accidentally sent an email before finishing it.

Problem is that MS Office sets language within each different style.  So
when someone applies a style to a paragraph they set the language of that
paragraph/chunk to be different from whatever the rest of the document is
set at.

Most of the MS Office styles are set to English (US) by default even if the
language settings of the OS are to some other form of English.

So in the original-posters case it's probably flicking back into English US
every time the document has a different style applied.  Chances are that
the person who created the document has no idea this is happening.

So the question is how to remove all styles, defined by MS Office, from
within the document.


LibreOffice styles inherit, or pass on, such settings so that changing the
language of 1 style would ripple through all subsequent style so the styles
would all be in the same language by default.

Regards from
Tom :)



On 1 June 2014 21:47, Tim Lloyd <tim.lloyd@gmx.com> wrote:

> Hi Tom,
>
> I was told that you can modify the language settings via "styles &
> formatting" - F11. Problem solved :)
>
> Cheers
>
> On 30/05/14 23:02, Tom Davies wrote:
>
> > Hi :)
> > My kludgy way = Can you
> > File - "Save As .." - ODF (specifically odp in this case)
> > select all text
> > Ctrl A
> > and then
> > Format - "Remove direct formatting"
> > to get rid of all the stray styles and formatting imposed by MS Office and
> > save again in the odp format.
> >
> > Hopefully that should let the spell-check run properly but it will make
> > the
> > slides look messy, assuming all the text on all the slides really did get
> > selected.
> > Regards from
> > Tom :)
> >
> >
> >
> > On 30 May 2014 00:45, Tim Lloyd <tim.lloyd@gmx.com> wrote:
> >
> >  Hi,
> > > I was asked to review a pptx document for a student here in Sydney. I am
> > > having difficulty using Australian English for the spell check.
> > >
> > > My LO settings are:
> > >
> > >   * User Interface - US English (the only option available)
> > >   * Locale setting - English Aus
> > >   * Def language for docs - English Aus
> > >
> > > I am not all that well versed in Impress but when I received the
> > > student's
> > > document I could see it was applying US English as the spell check
> > > language. When I check the settings (tools->language) they are the same
> > > as
> > > my defaults. I click on F7 for a spell check and the text language is
> > > English US. I change this to English Aus, skip a suggestion and the
> > > language reverts to English US.
> > >
> > > I have encountered this problem back in the dim, distant past and I
> > > really
> > > can't remember how I solved it before. Any suggestions?
> > >
> > > Cheers
> > >
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