libreoffice calc spellcheck?

[Dave Howorth]

On 2016-02-03 16:30, Colin Law wrote:
> 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?
Yes, I'm afraid so.