Reset spell checker to check same text as if 1st time

[Brianna]

I want to reset the spell checker on a document so that the spell checker starts from scratch. For example, the spell checker has already been run one time and corrected everything. Now I want to go back and have the spell checker run as if it had never seen the document before. Is that possible? I have searched all the help and documentation files I can find. It's a simple thing to do in Microsoft Word -- just select "reset spell checker"-- is it possible in OpenOffice? Thank you for helping me.

[esperantisto]

What are you trying to achieve actually? Spellchecker has no memory, so, I can’t really understand what ‘reset’ means in relation to it.

[Brianna]

Thanks for replying, esperantisto. Apparently spell checker DOES have a memory. When I correct words in a document, spell checker remembers my corrections. I want a way to reset it so that it forgets my corrections -- so that the document is returned to its original, uncorrected state.

[esperantisto]

Before spellchecking, save the document and reload. After spellchecking, just discard all changes by closing the document without saving.

[Brianna]

That would work if I were the original spell checker. I'm working with authors who have already spell-checked their documents and I want to reset the spell checker so that I can do my own review. It's really simple to do this in MS Word -- I was hoping it would be simple in OpenOffice Writer, but apparently it's not. At least, I can't find any way to do it and can't find any help file that addresses this particular aspect of spell checker.

[acknak]

Sorry, I'm not sure I understand what you're doing/looking for here.

The spellcheck makes no record of changes in the text. It only checks for misspelled words.

The record of changes made--any changes, including changes made during a spelling check, is controlled through Edit > Changes ... If you use the "Reject All" option there, you go back to the original, uncorrected document.

As far as I know, that's the only feature that deals with recording changes.

Does that help? If not, you may need to give a specific example of what you want to do, step by step.

[Bill]

Thanks for replying, esperantisto. Apparently spell checker DOES have a memory. When I correct words in a document, spell checker remembers my corrections. I want a way to reset it so that it forgets my corrections -- so that the document is returned to its original, uncorrected state.

The only memory which SpellCheck has is to add new words to the user's dictionary or add words to the IgnoreAll list. SpellCheck replaces one word with another, but doesn't need to remember which words are replaced. Those word replacements are remembered by the "Undo" function, but that memory is only in the computer's volatile memory. It isn't stored in the document. If you receive a document from someone else which has already been spell checked, there is no way to "reset SpellCheck" to return the document to the original uncorrected state.

Regarding the reset function in MS Word, I can't find information about a reset function that reverses spell checking. The only information I can find is about resetting the words which were ignored when spelling was checked, but if you receive a document from someone else, those words shouldn't be ignored anyway when you SpellCheck the document, and if you ignore words when spell checking a document, if you save and reload the document, the words shouldn't be ignored after the document is reloaded.

[Hlingler]

The answer is as difficult as the solution. I am surprised at how difficult it was not only to ask/explain this question, but even more difficult to find an answer.

Answer: LibreOffice most certainly *does* remember all words that you ever 'Ignore All' in a special dictionary called 'List of Ignored Words [All]'. You do not need to reset words that you have only 'Ignore Once' since, well, you only ignored them once and there is no record. You cannot reset the spell checker for only the currently-open document.

To universally reset the spell checker:
1. Tools > Options > Language Settings > Writing Aids
2. In the right middle pane = 'User-defined dictionaries:' select 'List of Ignored Words [All]'

Now you can press either:
- 'Delete' - CAUTION: pressing this button will delete ALL words that you have ever 'Ignore All' for all documents, ever, and cannot be undone; OR
- 'Edit' - you can edit this special dictionary, but you will have to do so one item at a time!

--VJS

[JeJe]

It gets reset if you change the spelling language to a different one and back again to the one you use.

Here is a macro I made by running the macro recorder then going to the Tools/Language menu item and changing the language to US and back to UK again. Seems to work.

Code: Select all

sub Main
rem ----------------------------------------------------------------------
rem define variables
dim document   as object
dim dispatcher as object
rem ----------------------------------------------------------------------
rem get access to the document
document   = ThisComponent.CurrentController.Frame
dispatcher = createUnoService("com.sun.star.frame.DispatchHelper")

rem ----------------------------------------------------------------------
dim args1(0) as new com.sun.star.beans.PropertyValue
args1(0).Name = "Language"
args1(0).Value = "Default_English (USA)"

dispatcher.executeDispatch(document, ".uno:LanguageStatus", "", 0, args1())

rem ----------------------------------------------------------------------
dim args2(0) as new com.sun.star.beans.PropertyValue
args2(0).Name = "Language"
args2(0).Value = "Default_English (UK)"

dispatcher.executeDispatch(document, ".uno:LanguageStatus", "", 0, args2())

end sub

[RoryOF]

The answer is as difficult as the solution. I am surprised at how difficult it was not only to ask/explain this question, but even more difficult to find an answer.

Answer: LibreOffice most certainly *does* remember all words that you ever 'Ignore All' in a special dictionary called 'List of Ignored Words [All]'. You do not need to reset words that you have only 'Ignore Once' since, well, you only ignored them once and there is no record. You cannot reset the spell checker for only the currently-open document.

To universally reset the spell checker:
1. Tools > Options > Language Settings > Writing Aids
2. In the right middle pane = 'User-defined dictionaries:' select 'List of Ignored Words [All]'

Now you can press either:
- 'Delete' - CAUTION: pressing this button will delete ALL words that you have ever 'Ignore All' for all documents, ever, and cannot be undone; OR
- 'Edit' - you can edit this special dictionary, but you will have to do so one item at a time!

--VJS

Also posted to
https://ask.libreoffice.org/en/question ... nore-once/

[jrkrideau]

Try acknak's solution. It may not be ideal but it works
Edit > Track changes > Record
after corrections
Edit > Track changes > Reject all

[John_Ha]

I want to reset the spell checker on a document so that the spell checker starts from scratch.

1. Save the document
2. File > Reload ...,; or Close > Open document.

AOO/LO now has no memory of what you did and the spell checker starts from scratch.

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