Debian Question- Open Office 2.0

[hitest]

Hey,

I'm running Debian Etch and I just noticed something yesterday when typing a document. Spell check doesn't function for me in OO 2.0. I have ispell installed.

This isn't a big deal, but, mildly annoying. Spell check works for me in OO 2.0 on my Slackware box.

Any and all replies are appreciated.

Thank you.

[shanenin]

did you check if it is enabled by default. goto tools >> spellcheck >> options . Then make sure "check spelling as you type" is checked.

[hitest]

did you check if it is enabled by default. goto tools >> spellcheck >> options . Then make sure "check spelling as you type" is checked.

Yep, did that. That didn't work. Going to go and see if MySpell is instaled properly.

[hitest]

Thank you, shanenin! You got me thinking that perhaps some of my language options were de-selected. That was the case. My language was set to Canadian, but the spell checker was set to UK and American. Once I set my language to UK.......I'm a Canuck.....everything works now.

Thanks again, man:-)

[iccaros]

My language was set to Canadian

wow Canadians have there own language.. I thought it was just English and French..

the world is changing..

here in america, we don't have a language.. we try to mix all the languages together..

[hitest]

My language was set to Canadian

wow Canadians have there own language.. I thought it was just English and French..

the world is changing..

here in america, we don't have a language.. we try to mix all the languages together..

LOL, yah, it is news to me too! Strangely enough when I installed Debian I selected Canada as my location so I guess open office 2.0 selected my language as Canadian as well. But, there is no Canadian version of myspell, the spell checking program. So when I went to check spelling of course it wouldn't work. This is a strange anomaly in OO.

I'm glad I figured this out because I've encountered this before, but, could never figure out why it was happening. Setting OO to UK solves all issues:-)

[iccaros]

My language was set to Canadian

wow Canadians have there own language.. I thought it was just English and French..

the world is changing..

here in america, we don't have a language.. we try to mix all the languages together..

LOL, yah, it is news to me too! Strangely enough when I installed Debian I selected Canada as my location so I guess open office 2.0 selected my language as Canadian as well. But, there is no Canadian version of myspell, the spell checking program. So when I went to check spelling of course it wouldn't work. This is a strange anomaly in OO.

I'm glad I figured this out because I've encountered this before, but, could never figure out why it was happening. Setting OO to UK solves all issues:-)

hitest.. can you submit a bug report on this to OpenOffice... I will for you if you give me all the symtems...

[hitest]

My language was set to Canadian

wow Canadians have there own language.. I thought it was just English and French..

the world is changing..

here in america, we don't have a language.. we try to mix all the languages together..

LOL, yah, it is news to me too! Strangely enough when I installed Debian I selected Canada as my location so I guess open office 2.0 selected my language as Canadian as well. But, there is no Canadian version of myspell, the spell checking program. So when I went to check spelling of course it wouldn't work. This is a strange anomaly in OO.

I'm glad I figured this out because I've encountered this before, but, could never figure out why it was happening. Setting OO to UK solves all issues:-)

hitest.. can you submit a bug report on this to OpenOffice... I will for you if you give me all the symtems...

Good idea, iccaros!! I'll send a bug report to openoffice.org today. I've had this happn to me on the odd Linux box. If it is happening to me it is happening to other Canadians.

Will do.