[ubuntu-in] OpenOffice autospellcheck not working on Ubuntu 7.04

[Ravi Shanker]

On Sun, 2007-05-27 at 19:22 +0530, S Gantayet wrote:
> On Saturday 26 May 2007 19:40, Ravi Shanker wrote:
> > I am finding it difficult for document writing, because the auto-spell
> > check for the Open-Office.org is not working, though manual checking
> > using  F7 works great. Maybe I am missing some configuration, which
> > probably seems isnt enabled by default.
> > Simply, there is no red-line under the misspelt words in OpenOffice
> > Writer, but my evolution and mozilla-firefox does have the feature
> > working right, means i have the dictionary installed.
> > Any idea how to enable and what things I need to install. Also, is this
> > what only my system has problem, or you too have this feature not
> > working?
> >
> > OS :  Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty)
> > JVM : Sun-Java 6
> > OpenOffice Version : 2.2.0
> > Built : openoffice.org 2.2.0-1ubuntu3
> 
> I too had a similar problem which got sorted out by tweaking the language 
> settings of Oo. Please refer to this two links which helped me out:-
> http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=27622&start=15
> http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=32691&highlight=spellchecker+set+language
> 
> HTH
> - gantayet
> 
Thanks for the pointer, it resolved my problem. I think the default
Ubuntu installation should have this option. I think this was not a
problem just with me and someone else, but all the others. Right?
I will search for the bug and file it there if not already noticed.