[ubuntu-za] OPen Office

Bill Cairns Bill.Cairns at eskom.co.za
Mon Sep 10 13:34:57 BST 2007


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>>> On 10 September 2007 at 09:56 AM, in message

<1189410987.6548.5.camel at jason-laptop>, Jason Norwood-Young

<jason at freespeechpub.co.za> wrote:

> 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.

> 

> Hi Bill

> 

> The problem (I'm guessing) is that Word docs have the language they were

> written in encoded in them. So if the person who wrote the doc had his

> OS language (or even just his MS Word language) set to US English, your

> spell checker would try compare it to a US English dictionary. 

> 

> Fixing it is another story and something I've never bothered trying. But

> I suggest you first check that you've got the US English dictionary

> installed (sudo apt-get install myspell-en-us) and also check your

> default language settings under Options/Language settings/Languages.

> 

> J



Thanks Jason,



I think that you have put me on the right track. Actually most of the documents that I am worried about are mine but they have been generated in different places - on my Office 2000 (On Windows 2000) at home or my Office XP (on Windows XP) at work. Not only do I have the different operating systems, but different levels of software! 



Thanks again - it seems that the best thing to do is to sort out the problem on Windows first.



Bill

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