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.
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.
