All text underlined all the time when using spellcheck

riofield74 · Newbie Joined: 31 May 2012 Posts: 4

As the title says using Open Office 3.3 and for some reason all of the text is underscored in red when using spell check. It doesn't appear to recognise the simplest of words such as 'the' and 'such' and 'as'.

Any help would be appreciated.

floris_v · Posted: Thu May 31, 2012 2:59 am Post subject:

Try Tutorial Spell check and Language configuration
The most obvious explanation is that you selected the wrong language for that text.
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riofield74 · Newbie Joined: 31 May 2012 Posts: 4

Hi there

Thanks for the swift response. Could the following be causing this problem?

The User Interface Language is English US as the default however the locale is English (UK) and Western is also English UK.

How can I change the User Interface Language to English UK?

floris_v · Posted: Thu May 31, 2012 5:49 am Post subject:

Please check the tutorial, then tell us where you get stuck. The interface language has nothing to do with this.
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riofield74 · Newbie Joined: 31 May 2012 Posts: 4

UK English is now default language.

I have removed both French and Spanish dictionaries.

Points 5-8 of the FAQ do not seem to be applicable.

The text is still all underscored in red. I have tried to create a new text document. The only word was Hello. It said that this was not in the English UK dictionary and suggested the word Telco.

Any ideas?

floris_v · Posted: Thu May 31, 2012 8:24 am Post subject:

Don't start new documents from Windows Explorer. There was/is a bug that breaks the dictionary link. Open OOo and start new documents from there.
Changing the default language doesn't affect existing documents, only new documents started within OOo.
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riofield74 · Newbie Joined: 31 May 2012 Posts: 4

I'm afraid I have already tried this. Opened and Created a new document using Open Office. Hello is still underlined.

floris_v · Posted: Fri Jun 01, 2012 2:48 am Post subject:

Can you upload a sample at www.mediafire.com (and post a link here) or, better, register at the new forum and upload it there as an attachment? Don't forget to post a link to the topic in the new forum if you do.
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mgarthwaite · Newbie Joined: 19 Jun 2012 Posts: 4

Similar to this thread, all English is underlined all the time by spell checker. I've been through the tutorial and the troubleshooting routines to no avail. "English" with the blue check mark shows up in the Paragraph Style: Default/Font/Language. I am using OO 3.4 on a Vista machine -- I had the same problem with 00 3.3 (removed 3.3 and installed 3.4 today, but didn't fix the problem).

I have a laptop with OO on it which works just fine. Very baffling problem.

floris_v · Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2012 9:46 am Post subject:

Upload a test document please.
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mgarthwaite · Newbie Joined: 19 Jun 2012 Posts: 4

floris_v · Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2012 11:07 am Post subject:

Reread my previous post.
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jrkrideau · Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2012 5:50 am Post subject:

mgarthwaite · Newbie Joined: 19 Jun 2012 Posts: 4

The test document I put on Dropbox works for me too... but on a different computer. On a Windows 7 laptop with OO 3.3 I don't have any problems. The document opens, the word "test" is not flagged as being misspelled (spell checker is on). All good.

However, on my desktop, Windows 7 Professional, under both OO 3.3 and now under OO 3.4, the word "test" is flagged as being misspelled. The English (USA) dictionary is installed and has the blue check mark (with "ABC" above it) is visible under "Language" in the "Paragraph Style: Default." and in "Tools/Options/Languages Settings/Languages"

Strangely, when (on the desktop) I go through the "[Tutorial] Spell check and Language configuration" and "[Troubleshooting] Spell check in OOo 3.x" routines (during which everything checks out) and I download and look at "Spellcheck_samples.odt" the ONLY words in the sample which are underlined (as being misspelled) are the English and Latin words. The French and Spanish words are not underlined. It's like there is something wrong with the US English dictionary, like OO isn't finding it.

floris_v · Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2012 12:41 pm Post subject:

Copy the en.oxt from your user profile to a safe place, reset your user profile. Click here for help how to do that. Re-install all extensions.
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