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mihel
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 Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 7:55 am Post subject: Auto language select? |
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Hi
What I miss in OO compared to MS Word is automatic language select.
That is when I type in English Word would set English for what I type.
It's pretty weird for OO to spell check non-English words using English dictionary, isn't it?
Especially when OO can easily get the info on the language I'm using to type.
Or am I missing something? I've searched the Help and Forum - couldn't find anything...  |
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jrkrideau
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| Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 8:10 am Post subject: Re: Auto language select? |
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| mihel wrote: | Hi
What I miss in OO compared to MS Word is automatic language select.
That is when I type in English Word would set English for what I type.
It's pretty weird for OO to spell check non-English words using English dictionary, isn't it?
Especially when OO can easily get the info on the language I'm using to type.
Or am I missing something? I've searched the Help and Forum - couldn't find anything... |
I don't think so. As far as I know the only way to seperately apply different spell checkers within a document is to explicitly set the paragraph or charater style to the desired language and apply that style.
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Hagar Delest
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| Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 11:46 am Post subject: |
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If you right click on a word underlined, OOo will ask you if the word and paragraph are in the language detected. It's not automatic but there is some detection. You can also activate the spell checking in all languages (Tools>Options>Language Settings>Writing Aids>...).
But in this case, don't forget to desactivate all the dictionaries you don't need.
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esperantisto
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| Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 5:26 am Post subject: |
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Word's autodetection of language is buggy and shitty, posing more problems that it solves. So I don't miss it and appreciate OOo's way.
Use styles (search forum and other sources on this issue)! |
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mihel
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| Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 8:00 am Post subject: |
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| esperantisto wrote: | | Word's autodetection of language is buggy and shitty, posing more problems that it solves. So I don't miss it and appreciate OOo's way. |
Computers were created to help people automating things that were usually done manually, this is given, and language selection is not an exception.
Language autodetection is definitely going to be implemented in OO b/c it dramatically improves it's usability, the only question here is when, not whether.
Or am I missing something? 
(btw I haven't met any problems with Word's autodetection, at least Word 2003 one) |
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Hagar Delest
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dwiedenfeld
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| Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 5:48 pm Post subject: |
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I'm with Esperantisto:
| Quote: | Word's autodetection of language is buggy and shitty, posing more problems that it solves. So I don't miss it and appreciate OOo's way.
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It's one of the things I hated about Word. I turned it off (like the grammar checker) immediately. I sure hope OOo implements it better.
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stefankalte
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| Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 3:22 am Post subject: |
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the issue was closed yesterday, mybe in next version it will work better
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stefankalte
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Issue #: 39992
Status: CLOSED
Resolution: DUPLICATE
Target milestone: OOo 2.3
so openoffice 2.2 just exist somewhere ))))
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Hagar Delest
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No. It may be 2.3 because the features list to be considered has been frozen for 2.2.
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