Enabling Spell Check in OpenOffice Writer

So, I had to reinstall Ubuntu all over again. Was a pretty painful procedure but knowing I had made it work the first time I did not waste much time thinking over it.

One of the biggest hassle was to get spell checker working in OpenOffice Writer. The way I got it working was to run the ‘Install New Dictionaries’ Wizard from the File Menu and restarting OpenOffice.

See if it works for you that ways.

That said… I never faced this hassle when I installed OpenOffice on a Windows Machine.

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zapper-review 1 year ago 1 point
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Funnily enough, I came here after searching for a way to disable my spell-checker. In case future friends come here looking for same, here are the steps I finally took for OO version 2.2.1:
- open OO Base
- In the Tools Menu choose Options
- In the Language Settings choose Writing Aids
- Uncheck the Hunspell SpellChecker
- Uncheck "Check spelling as you type"

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smadj 7 months ago 1 point
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great! thank you.
I have recently switched from windows and office to Mac and open office. It is hard to learn all the new shortcut and the workings of these new software. I needed to disable the spellcheck and finally found someone (you) to tell me how to do it. God bless.

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