Spellchecking in OOo 2.3 does not work
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Ubuntu |
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Bug Description
OpenOffice.org has a flaw in its Linux version that you may want to remedy quickly. When I use OpenOffice.org on Windows, the auto spell-checker and the spell-checker work perfectly fine. They do not work, however, on Linux. I am using Ubuntu with version 2.3 of OOo. I deliberately spell words wrong, and they are not underlined (which the function is turned on), and the spell-checker tells me my document is complete without any problems. I deliberately spelled "being" as "bieng" and it did not underline it. I ran spell-checker, and it told me my document was perfect. This needs addressed quickly, for even the most gifted at the English language can still make a mistake or two in their typing or writing, and if the program doesn't identify it, it will go unnoticed.
A response received back from OOo itself:
"That must be a Ubuntu-specific problem because the OpenOffice spell checking
works just fine on this Fedora 7 computer."
It works here. Are you sure you have all necessary packages installed? At least: myspell-en-us (of myspell-en-gb) and language- support- en? There may be other dependencies, but I'm sure of those.