libreoffice calc spellcheck?

[Dave Howorth]

On 2016-02-03 16:55, Colin Law wrote:
> On 3 February 2016 at 16:33, Dave Howorth <dhoworth at mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>> 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.
> Have a look in Tools > Options > Language Settings > Writing Aids
> (might not be in exactly that place, options get moved around
> occasionally from version to version) and see if anything looks odd.
> You should at least be able to disable it globally here.
Hmm, I'd already unchecked all the options, with no effect. I now 
unchecked Hunspell Spellchecker and that seems to have got rid of the 
red lines, but the menu option is still greyed out. So at least I have a 
workaround. Thanks Colin.

Cheers, Dave