[Hoary] Spell Checker in OpenOffice

[Colin McDermott]

>> I'm making a rather large document in OOo 1.1.3 and I've found that the
spell checker doesn't find any misspelled words. 

I have found this problem when installing ubuntu from the Server installation up. Sadly there is an error in the Openoffice Package and it does not do a SPELL CHECK.

I do not know if you have tried sudo apt-get install myspell-en-uk (or us as the case may be). That has fixed it before on my system but It did not fix it recently. 

I believe that Myspell is Updating an Openoffice link that is stored in a different directory. You may be able to patch the link file if you do a search for it.

The best solution is to download the latest package from openoffice and recompile from source. 

Can you please file a bug report on this! I have filed one in the past and I will refile. This is Ultra important!

Cheers 
Colin McDermott

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Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 09:23:28 -0400
From: Ed Fletcher <ed at fletcher.ca>
Subject: [Hoary] Spell Checker in OpenOffice
To: Ubuntu Users <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
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Hi All:

I'm making a rather large document in OOo 1.1.3 and I've found that the
spell checker doesn't find any misspelled words.  It seems to run and
asks me if I want to continue from the top of the document then it says
the the spellcheck is complete.  I've deliberately misspelled a few
words just to see if it picks them out but it doesn't find them either.

I have the EN language packs and thesaurus installed.

This is a former Warty laptop that I upgraded to Hoary.  And I'm
wondering if that is why I have OOo 1.1.3 instead of 2.0.  I had some
problems doing a dist-upgrade on my desktop and ended up doing a
reinstall.  I would do that on my laptop but I don't want to take a
chance on losing data while I'm not at home (I'm nearing the end of a
three week trip) and dependent the laptop.

So does anyone know how I can make the spellchecker function?

(Spellcheck works fine in Thunderbird, btw.)

Thanks,
Ed
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