Software - Spell checking and Thesaurus in KWord and Openoffice write nitto - 31.08.2006, 15:17 Uhr Titel: Spell checking and Thesaurus in KWord and Openoffice write
G'day
This got to have such a simple answer, I'll end up pulling my hair!!
I can't seem to get my KWord and/or Openoffice write to do a spell check.
Clicking the spelling icon in KWord just doesn't do anything at all and Openoffice gives spelling complete sign with no change as soon as I click on spelling (and spelling errors are everywhere!!)
any help?
ps. the documents I tried to modify and spell check were MS Word documents in rtf and doc format, neither of the word processing programs had much trouble opening the files.
cheers
nitto - 01.09.2006, 02:23 Uhr Titel: RE: Spell checking and Thesaurus in KWord and Openoffice wri
KWord still doesnt do any spell check at all and I couldn't figure out why yet but OpenOffice org now seems to work.
It seems, when I open an MS Office Word document and modify it, openoffice wont do any spell check on it.
Only after copy-paste'ing into a new openoffice document, the spell check works!
go figure?
Richard - 01.09.2006, 02:36 Uhr Titel: RE: Spell checking and Thesaurus in KWord and Openoffice wri
Characters have a language property in OOo.
When they come in new from MsOff it is not set.
Highlight the text, right click, choose Character, then set Language property.
Caveat: If the font of the text is not actually installed, it won't spellcheck.
If the dictionary is not included in dictionary.lst, it won't work.
Yes it's a pain, but getting better. jackiebrown - 01.09.2006, 04:31 Uhr Titel: RE: Spell checking and Thesaurus in KWord and Openoffice wri
Kword does a spell check. Make sure you have it set in kcontrol
Swynndla - 01.09.2006, 07:37 Uhr Titel: RE: Spell checking and Thesaurus in KWord and Openoffice wri
Yea I think I did:
apt-get install ispell iamerican ibritish
and then in Control Center > KDE Components > Spell Checker ... I chose ispell
... or something like that.
nitto - 15.09.2006, 08:45 Uhr Titel: RE: Spell checking and Thesaurus in KWord and Openoffice wri
Same problem persists on KWord... pitty I can't seem to use it 'cause it seemed pretty good word package too!
I set the Dictionary in Kcontrol as ISpell Default, Encoding ISO 8859-15 and Client as International Ispell. Also the two tick boxes on top were also ticked too...
Still when I click on the spell check icon or tools->spellchek in KWord, nothing happens
Swynndla - 15.09.2006, 12:55 Uhr Titel: RE: Spell checking and Thesaurus in KWord and Openoffice wri
As for OO writer, under Tools > Options > Language Settings > Languages > Default languages for documents > Western ... I changed the drop-down box to a language that had a tick next to it (install one of the "myspell" apps if you need one to have a tick), and now it auto checks every time.
