[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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