Highlight Style for Spell Checker... Can it be Changed?

[GeoffreyTransom]

Hello all.

I've been using OO for some time, and like Word and pretty much very other app, I get infuriated by this idea that inline spell checking just plonks an almost-invisible red wavy line under the misspelled word.

I would like misspelled words to, say, have their background colour changed to dark blue, font colour changed to white and have their point size increased by 5pt... sure it would make printed output look blecch, but who wants to print stuff with spelling errors in it anyway?

For example, as I type this I notice that your machine thinks I should spell 'colour' like an American (i.e., wrongly). I get notified of this by an almost-imperceptible red dotted underline. it is a little bit too subtle for one such as me.

I would dearly love - fat fingered blind old git that I am - to be made much more aware of my typos as I type, by rendering them absolutely unmissable to the naked (aged, and rather decrepit) eye. A siren of some sort might even be appropriate, and a small electric shock through the keyboard as aversion therapy perhaps. But a red underline - it's a bit like a someone trying to interrupt a fist fight with a gentle cough.

Is there something that will enable this in the .. ahem... 'accessibility' settings? (what pathetic wimps we are with our euphemisms... it's not like cripples, gimps, lame-os, retards and the blind can gang up on us).

I have looked all over teh interwebs (note - both of those are real words now) but to no avail.

Thanks in advance.
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[floris_v]

From what I've seen at a quick glace you can't even change the colour of that curly line.
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[foxcole]

I've searched the IssueTracker but haven't found any request like this (so far... doesn't mean there isn't one ). You might want to register and submit a request.

I agree it would be nice to be able to configure the appearances of such flags (although the more configurable the software is, the less likely two people are going to be looking at the same thing when questions come up). The red wavy line has been adopted as a standard everywhere, and I don't remember whether it was introduced in MS Word, but I think it may have been. It's useless to so many people though, with impaired sight or impaired color perception.

Hmmm... actually, this should be an OS issue, not an application-specific one. Windows (or whatever) should be the one to handle spelling flags, so you'd see the same flag in, for example, the webform you type your forum posts into, as well as in OOo, in e-mail and in any other application that checks spelling.
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