by RoryOF » Fri Jul 19, 2019 5:16 pm
Start by renaming your OpenOffice user profile.
If you are using Windows close OpenOffice and the Quickstarter. Open File
Explorer. Copy and paste %appdata%\OpenOffice\4 in the File Explorer (sometimes called Windows Explorer)
Address Bar and press Enter. Rename the "user" folder - "user.old" is a
good choice. Start OpenOffice.
This cures most spellcheck problems.
Loss of Spellcheck can occur in a number of ways. A system or program crash is one. A more common reason is over-hasty power-off of the computer, which does not allow the OO housekeeping information to be flushed from the internal buffers of the hard drives and written to to the disks.
So to prevent this happening, we recommend that one uses the correct computer close down procedure, and waits a few seconds for all disk activity to cease, before cutting the power or closing the laptop lid.
Apache OpenOffice 4.1.7 on Xubuntu 18.04.3 (mostly 64 bit version) and very infrequently on Win2K/XP