Spellcheck

[obrienc6]

Hi,

I'm a new user of openoffice, however, spellcheck doesn't seem to be responding correctly.
I've put it on automatic spellcheck and also tried via the tools option.
Even if I type something clearly mispelled as "ajofjaojfojdsojfp" it doesn't pick up on it.

Any ideas why?

[DrewJensen]

Hi,

You may find some help in this post

Spellcheck Tutorial

I HTH

Drew

[obrienc6]

Hi,
Thanks for the reply but it doesn't appear to have any pertinent information.
Spellcheck just isn't responding in any way even though the languages are set correctly.

[DrewJensen]

Well drat...

I'm not a Mac user, anymore, was hoping it would be something simple...sorry.

You might want to post which version of OpenOffice.org and on which version of the OS...

Also, I am going to go ahead and move this to the proper forum...better chance to get a response that will held you..OK

[obrienc6]

VERSION: 2.3
MAC: OSX 9

Just not sure. I have gone into- TOOLS, OPTIONS, LANGUAGES- and set as English (Eire).

Just doesn't seem to pick up on any words.

Any help would be great as a word processing programme is pretty lost without this handy tool.

[Hagar Delest]

I have gone into- TOOLS, OPTIONS, LANGUAGES- and set as English (Eire).

Do you see a V checkmark with ABC above in front of the language (in the drop-down list) ?

[smsm1]

Do you have the English (Eire) language dictionaries installed? Try setting it to English (US) or (UK), and see what happens.

[wurzel]

VERSION: 2.3
MAC: OSX 9

Just not sure. I have gone into- TOOLS, OPTIONS, LANGUAGES- and set as English (Eire).

Just doesn't seem to pick up on any words.

Any help would be great as a word processing programme is pretty lost without this handy tool.

Hmm, you have installed the Eire dictionaries I presume ? If you haven't then it won't work, even if you have checked them in the list of available options in Language Settings.

Alex