[ubuntu-za] OPen Office

[Bill Cairns]

Perhaps I should add that this does not seem to happen to all my
documents. About half of them don't seem to have a problem. This makes
it even stranger and curiouser.

On Mon, 2007-09-10 at 08:22 +0200, Bill Cairns wrote:
> Ja ja I know this is an Ubuntu forum and not Open Office, but you people
> are so smart that I thought I would chance it ...
> 
> A weird problem - that when I take a document from MS Word to my Unbuntu
> machine and open it with Open Office writer, it gets itself into a knot
> with its spelling and can't even find simple words (actors, roles,
> watching). My language settings are all set to English (UK). Should I be
> setting something else somewhere?
> 
> I do not have the same problem when I start a document in OO on the
> Ubuntu side even if I save it as an MS Office 6 document.
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