Pim Bliek | PingWings.nl wrote:
I just installed OOo. Debian Unstable using dselect. KDE desktop - trying it out at a friends insistance. I didn't have OOo installed because a I hadn't needed more than a notepad on this system yet. I only installed it now because the use X program instead response didn't seem like an answer to the question even if it did prompt some thought and comment on the idea.I can't get the spell checking in open office working - It won't even let me select the spell checker under Options -> Language Settings -> Writing Aids. I'm running unstable. Anybody have any ideas?Use koffice instead. koffice is more stable and the next version the default file format changes to OpenOffice.I for myself won't be using KOffice untill it is able to save in MsWord format, Excel format etc. Unfortunately I have friends, colleagues and clients who do use M$ crap still ;). Pity nobody knows how to get the spellcheck in OO fixed, I am having the same issue here... Pim
Heres what I installed: Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: gcc-3.0-base kdebase libstdc++3 myspell-en-us oooqs-kde openoffice.org openoffice.org-bin openoffice.org-crashrep openoffice.org-debian-files openoffice.org-gnome openoffice.org-help-en openoffice.org-l10n-en openoffice.org-mimelnk 0 packages upgraded, 13 newly installed, 0 to remove and 4 not upgraded. 2 packages not fully installed or removed. Need to get 71.6MB of archives. After unpacking 202MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n]After installing I fire up OOo and start typing. I type my last name. It gets underlined. I type compalning and it gets underlined. I right-click compalning and I have complaining in the drop down. I select it and the word is corrected. I undo and choose tools > spellcheck > check. compalning turns into complaining again.
I think either something wasn't installed right or at all (maybe myspell-en-us) or you're not using english and there is an issue with another language, or something is failing on the update/install so the spell check fails or you are seeing a different problem with the spelling checker.
If it's some other use of the spelling checker, let me know and I'll try on my system.
Jacob