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Spell checking doesn't work in Openoffice

I need some help in getting the spell checker to work in Debian Lenny.
It's no picking up the mistakes. Isn't there a apell checker installed
by default? Do I need to enable it?

Thanks

In open office 'Writer', open some non-empty document,

click on tools menu -> spell check -> options

A dialog box will open, see which option is marked and which is not !

This is what I see in Debian Lenny:
Using OpenOffice 2.4

Tools > options > Language Settings > Writing aids
> Available language modules
x OpenOffice.org Hunspell SpellChecker
x OpenOffice.org New Thesaurus

> User-defined dictionaries
x standard [All]
x Debian [All]
x IgnoreAllList [All]

> Options
x Check spelling as you type
x Check capitalization
x Check special regions
x Hyphenate special regions

Is the language of the OOo document the same as the installed dictionaries? Tools->"Spelling and Language" shows the language. Tools->Language can be used to set the language.

I don't find those places on the version of OpenOffice installed on my computer.
The only thing I found to set the language is:
Tools > options > language settings >
languages > default languages for documents
> Western English (Canada)

I changed it to English (USA). it didn't help.

I did a search with aptitude search ~dOpenOffice. This is what was installed:

Quote:

i A docvert - converts word processor files to HTML
i docvert-openoffice.org - converts word processor files to HTML usin
i A libhunspell-1.2-0 - spell checker and morphological analyzer (
i A libhyphen0 - ALTLinux hyphenation library - shared libr
i myspell-en-us - English_american dictionary for myspell
i openoffice.org - OpenOffice.org Office suite
i A openoffice.org-base - OpenOffice.org office suite - database
i A openoffice.org-base-core - OpenOffice.org office suite -- libdba
i A openoffice.org-calc - OpenOffice.org office suite - spreadsheet
i A openoffice.org-common - OpenOffice.org office suite architecture i
i A openoffice.org-core - OpenOffice.org office suite architecture d
i A openoffice.org-draw - OpenOffice.org office suite - drawing
i A openoffice.org-filter-mobiledev - Mobile Devices Filters for OpenOffice.org
i openoffice.org-gcj - OpenOffice.orgs Java libraries (native for
i A openoffice.org-headless - Headless VCL plugin for OpenOffice.org
i openoffice.org-help-en-us - English_american help for OpenOffice.org
i A openoffice.org-impress - OpenOffice.org office suite - presentation
i A openoffice.org-java-common - OpenOffice.org office suite Java support a
i openoffice.org-kde - KDE Integration for OpenOffice.org (Widget
i A openoffice.org-math - OpenOffice.org office suite - equation edi
i A openoffice.org-officebean - OpenOffice.org Office Bean
i A openoffice.org-report-builder-b - OpenOffice.org Report Builder extension -
i A openoffice.org-style-andromeda - Default symbol style for OpenOffice.org
i A openoffice.org-style-crystal - Crystal symbol style for OpenOffice.org
i openoffice.org-thesaurus-en-us - English Thesaurus for OpenOffice.org
i A openoffice.org-writer - OpenOffice.org office suite - word process
i A openoffice.org-writer2latex - Writer/Calc to LaTeX/XHTML converter exten
i A python-uno - Python interface for OpenOffice.org
i A ttf-opensymbol - The OpenSymbol TrueType font

Thanks

Kindly check if the following files are installed in your Debian system:
I checked them in OpenSuse through Yast. U can check them in Debian through Synaptic Package Manager !

aspell-en
ispell-american
ispell-british
words

Quote:

Originally Posted by anishakaul (Post 3764607)

I have aspell-en installed. The others I don't have available in the
repository.

I can get a spell check working on a new document, but I
can't get it to check documents I have saved.

Thanks

Quote:

I can get a spell check working on a new document, but I
can't get it to check documents I have saved.

Anyway till your problem doesn't get solved, you can simply select all data of your old saved documents and paste them into a new file. Now spell check will be working as u said, so correct all the spellings and then save it.
The procedure may seem dumb but still it will temporarily solve your problem.

Don't know about spell checking but not being able to get 'help', even though it is installed is a known problem. It sounds a bit similar.

Simply uninstall and then reinstall the whole thing from openoffice.org. Then it works. This is the nuclear option but it's the only way as far as I know.

Have you tried asking at the OOoForum? There are some very knowledgeable and helpful OOosperts there.

I just checked on my own system using OO(3.1),and i also didn't have spell checking capabilities.
The package i needed to install was myspell-en-gb.

Code:

ade@Pc1:~$ aptitude show myspell-en-gb 

Package: myspell-en-gb

State: installed

Automatically installed: no

Version: 1:3.1.0-4

Priority: optional

Section: text

Maintainer: Debian OpenOffice Team <debian-openoffice@lists.debian.org>

Uncompressed Size: 848k

Depends: dictionaries-common (>= 0.10) | openoffice.org-updatedicts

Conflicts: openoffice.org (<= 1.0.3-2)

Provides: myspell-dictionary, myspell-dictionary-en

Description: English_british dictionary for myspell

 This is the English_british dictionary for use with the myspell spellchecker which is currently used

 within OpenOffice.org and the mozilla spellchecker.

It is available for Lenny too:

http://packages.debian.org/lenny/myspell-en-gb

See if this works for you.
Obviously you don't have to use English(GB) version;).

I tried:
aptitude remove openoffice.org
this only removed the meta package I think
I then tried:

Code:

Debian:~# aptitude remove openoffice.org-writer

and got the following:

Quote:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done
The following packages are BROKEN:
docvert-openoffice.org openoffice.org openoffice.org-help-en-us
The following packages will be REMOVED:
openoffice.org-writer
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 20.5MB will be freed.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
openoffice.org: Depends: openoffice.org-writer but it is not installable
openoffice.org-help-en-us: Depends: openoffice.org-writer but it is not installable
docvert-openoffice.org: Depends: openoffice.org-writer but it is not installable
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:

Remove the following packages:
docvert-openoffice.org
openoffice.org
openoffice.org-help-en-us

Score is 259

Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] y
The following packages will be REMOVED:
apache2-mpm-prefork{u} apache2-utils{u} apache2.2-common{u} docvert{u}
docvert-openoffice.org{a} fckeditor{u} jpegoptim{u} libapache2-mod-php5{u} libapr1{u}
libaprutil1{u} libblas3gf{u} libgfortran3{u} liblapack3gf{u} libphp-pclzip{u} librsvg2-bin{u}
libsuitesparse-3.1.0{u} libt1-5{u} libwmf-bin{u} libwpd8c2a{u} libwpg-0.1-1{u} libwps-0.1-1{u}
lp-solve{u} openoffice.org{a} openoffice.org-base{u} openoffice.org-base-core{u}
openoffice.org-calc{u} openoffice.org-draw{u} openoffice.org-filter-mobiledev{u}
openoffice.org-headless{u} openoffice.org-help-en-us{a} openoffice.org-impress{u}
openoffice.org-math{u} openoffice.org-officebean{u} openoffice.org-report-builder-bin{u}
openoffice.org-writer openoffice.org-writer2latex{u} optipng{u} php5-cli{u} php5-common{u}
php5-gd{u} php5-tidy{u} php5-xsl{u} pwgen{u} python-uno{u}
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 44 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 134MB will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] n
Abort.

Do I need to remove all this? I thought I would
try to remove the writer first to see if that
worked. If I remove all this how much work will
it be to reinstall?