The settings are only default, which means they can be overridden by modifying individual paragraph formats in text, HTML, and presentation documents. The program's Language options let you set default global hyphenation rules for documents. Use AutoSpellcheck (see Using Automatic Spellcheck on page 191). If your document crashes during spellcheck anyway, especially at the end of the document when it's about to head back up to the top of the document, just don't use normal spellcheck. If nothing is selected, select the right language and click OK. If it's something like Estonian (and you don't write in Estonian), select the right language and click OK. Selecting the right language to prevent problems while spellchecking In the Font tab and the Language list, check for the right language. Select all the documents in the document then choose Format > Characters. If that still doesn't work, restart the program and try again. If that doesn't work, change the location where the program looks for spellcheck dictionaries.Ĭhoose Tools > Options > Load/Save and select the Dictionaries option.Ĭlick Edit and specify where the dictionaries actually are. If they're not in that location, move them there. Not in /opt, /user, or another directory. Check the DictionariesĬheck that the spellcheck dictionaries are actually in office/share/wordbook/ language Here are a couple solutions or workarounds. Sometimes the program will hang or crash during a spellcheck, or it might ignore a few blaatently misPilled werds. To use the custom dictionary in spell checks, click the box next to it in the custom dictionaries list to put an 'x' next to it. In the Edit Custom Dictionary window (Figure 6-25), add the dictionary terms you want. In the Options window, select the new dictionary and click the Edit button. In the New Dictionary window, type the name of the dictionary, select the applicable language, and click OK. In the User -Defined Dictionaries area, click the New button. If you're going to use terms in your documents that a spell check would normally catch (such as product names, unique spellings of common words, and so on), you can add these words to a custom dictionary so that spell check will recognize them. The main reason to use a custom dictionary is to speed the spell check process. the program lets you add and modify custom dictionaries. It also checks spelling against custom dictionaries. The program performs spell check against a system dictionary (or more than one dictionary if you installed support for more than one language). You must select a language for spellchecking. Setting Spelling and Language options, Writing Aids window Select the options you want, as shown in Figure 6-23. Whether you use spell check manually (Tools > Spellcheck > Check) or automatically (by clicking the AutoSpellcheck icon in the toolbar to underline misspelled words), you can set the rules for spell check.Ĭhoose Tools > Options > Language Settings > Writing Aids. If you want to only spellcheck a portion of the document, select it.Ĭhoose Tools > Spellcheck > Check or press F7 the spellcheck window will appear as shown in Figure 6-19. Or choose Tools > Spellcheck > AutoSpellcheck and select it so that there's a checkmark next to the option. Or choose Tools > Options > Language Settings > Writing Aids. Turn automatic spell check on and off while working in a document by clicking the AutoSpellcheck button on the toolbar. The automatic spell checking feature places a re squiggly line under misspelled words. You might notice some differences if you use both programs. Since this feature couldn't be licensed under open source, the spellchecker is different. The StarOffice spellchecker is an addon feature, created by a third party.