Re: [libreoffice-users] LO dictionaries

At 23:45 17/10/2019 +0200, Pat Brown wrote:
> I have changed my settings to use only the English UK dictionary ...

I don't think you have! Language is a property of various parts of 
text within a document, not some setting in the product.

> ... but when I open a document it shows the English USA dictionary 
> at the bottom of the page.

No, it shows that this is the language set for text at the insertion 
point, nothing about dictionaries.

> How can I change this so that it never uses the USA dictionary?

I hope you cannot. If I send you a document in which I have 
appropriately chosen to mark some or all of its text as "English 
(USA)" (unlikely, in fact, but possible), your installation of the 
program needs to respect that. What you *can* do is two things:

o Set the default language for *new* documents that you create to 
"English (UK)", if that is what you desire.

o Change the language marked for all or part of the text within a 
particular document to whatever is appropriate. Note that language is 
a character property, so you can apply language as local - direct - 
formatting, but it is better to learn about styles and apply language 
settings using character styles or paragraph styles.

> In fact, how can I delete the USA dictionary so that it is not even available?

It's never a good idea to go about tinkering with software and 
deleting files, of course, but rather to use the product properly. 
But even if you could do this, it would not - and should not - 
prevent any text in any document being marked as "English (USA)". It 
would simply mean that any such text could not have its spelling 
checked: it would not somehow be magically checked using a dictionary 
for another language. That would require the program to read your 
mind: Finnish, Latvian, Esperanto? Oh, English (UK), eh?

I trust this helps.

Brian Barker


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