libreoffice calc spellcheck?

[Colin Law]

On 3 February 2016 at 16:02, Dave Howorth <dhoworth at mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> On 2016-02-03 15:27, Colin Law wrote:
>>
>> On 3 February 2016 at 14:42, Dave Howorth <dhoworth at mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> I'm using LibreOffice 3.5.7.2 on Ubuntu 12.04.5. I just opened a
>>> spreadsheet
>>> and it appears to have spellchecking enabled (i.e. there is red
>>> underlining
>>> on some text). I want to turn spellchecking off but when I go to the
>>> Tools
>>> menu, the first item 'Spell check...' is greyed out.
>>>
>>> I can't see anything relevant in Help. Any ideas?
>>
>> I have not got 12.04 any more, but one thing to check is whether the
>> option is shown if you start a new file.  That will tell you whether
>> it is specific to that file.
>>
>> Is the file read-only by any chance?
>
> The option is not greyed out if I start a new spreadsheet. The file is not
> read-only.
>
> I don't understand what might cause the option to be greyed out. It's a user
> display option so I can't think of any circumstances where it would be
> sensible to prevent its use. But I've given up trying to understand how UI
> designers think; they're on a different planet to me.

Are you sure the line is coming from the spell checker?  If you type
something with good spelling does it not underline, and if you
misspell does it underline?

Colin