Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Spellcheck not working in OpenOffice

I am pretty sure many of you must have come across this problem in OpenOffice. The spell check simply doesn't seem to work. I always had this problem when I used it in Ubuntu 10.04 and it still lingered in Ubuntu 10.10.

I remember scanning forums after forums but never quite got an answer. I however got it fixed last night. The language settings in my OpenOffice were set to English(India) for which spellcheck is not supported. It is only supported by a few default languages like English(USA) and English(UK). After changing back the language setting to English (UK), spellcheck is working again :). This can be done by changing to English(UK) in Tools>Language>For All Text.

This may or may not work for you. But, I am pretty sure this is atleast one of the main reasons most people's spellchecks don't work in OpenOffice including a few of my friends.

21 comments:

  1. well done. worked for me. thanks

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  2. I've been working on fixing this for hours with no luck, and this fixed it instantly. Thank you so much! :D

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  3. Worked! Wasted 25 minutes on other sites trying to find a fix. Thanks!

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  4. Thank you thank you sooooo much, this did fix it immediately.

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  5. awesome it fixed it right away thank you

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  6. thank you so much!!

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  7. Looooovvvvvveeeee how easy you made it! thank goodness this was the second site I went searching in. Only wasted aboout 10min on it.... lucky

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  8. Thank you! You have restored my faith in open source software!

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  9. THANK YOU SOOOOOOOOOOOO MUCH. THIS WORKED SO WELL! I LOVE WHOEVER POSTED THIS!!!!!!! :)

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  10. Jay-T, the Internet thanks you.
    :D

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  11. This did not work but this did...
    In Open Office from the main menu I went to Tools\Language\For all Text\Reset to Default Language
    It instantly started working.

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  12. Thank you. Started working instantly. I had made so many typos!

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  13. I'm a librarian and had a patron using Open Office. The spell check was not working for her BUT it turned out that it was because she was typing the entire document in all CAPS. I don't know why that matters (other than spelling/grammar) but that was the problem.

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    1. I don't think having all the letters in CAPS was the problem. Maybe the language settings were changed when she tried the second time. I have written a doc in all caps and spellcheck has always worked.

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  14. Yeah - wasted hours trying other things and this solved it. Thanks.

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  15. Thank you. That worked The instructions were spot on.

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  16. oh my goodness thank you thank you thank you. This was driving me insane and nothing i googled worked.

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