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thank you Nancy Shiffrin https://www.NancyShiffrin.net -Original Message- From: Sent: Apr 8, 2024 7:03 PM To: Cc: timothy vesper Subject: Re: Dictionary timothy vesper wrote: > The dictionary on my Open Office seems to be blank. When I run the spell > check, it does not rec

Re: Dictionary

timothy vesper wrote: The dictionary on my Open Office seems to be blank. When I run the spell check, it does not recognize any words and asks to add them to the dictionary. It is also automatically substituting words (like He, for my). Why is this and what can I do? Sent from Mail

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On Tue, 30 Nov 2021 09:20:49 + Rory O'Farrell wrote: > On Tue, 30 Nov 2021 07:16:00 + (UTC) > Storm Gill wrote: > > > Hello. > > Where do I find and how can i install the Open Office dictionary for the > > spell check? > > Thank you, Storm, a happy user > > > > Sent from Yahoo Mail on

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On Tue, 30 Nov 2021 07:16:00 + (UTC) Storm Gill wrote: > Hello. > Where do I find and how can i install the Open Office dictionary for the > spell check? > Thank you, Storm, a happy user > > Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android You may find this tutorial of assistance in sorting out your spellc

Re: dictionary fails to find obvious typos

At 13:00 18/09/2019 -0400, Dave Collins wrote: A few usability issues there. But not, I suggest, when you have fully learned to use the product. True. Although part of the definition of usability is that a product's basic features should support new users. Agreed. But users do need to be p

Re: dictionary fails to find obvious typos

> I can see how to set the language to "[None]" in OpenOffice, but not to "Unknown". Indeed. I am not able to set it back to unknown now that I've changed it. > I'm guessing that you originally pasted this text into an OpenOffice document from some other application. This is surely what happ

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At 12:09 18/09/2019 -0400, Dave Collins wrote: Thanks. The language was the problem. I didn't realize that it defaulted to 'unknown' ... I don't think it does. Indeed, I can see how to set the language to "[None]" in OpenOffice, but not to "Unknown". So I'm guessing that you originally pasted

Re: dictionary fails to find obvious typos

Thanks. The language was the problem. I didn't realize that it defaulted to 'unknown' (what does that do? Is it able to find some errors? Or none? < rhetorical question). A few usability issues there. Once I set it to English it found them. Noted for future reference. Dave Collins On 2019-09

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you can't get out of proofreading for yourself with your own eyes -- also it's really good to get others to proofread for you -- every time I think I've caught everything my husband finds one more for me AI doesn't excuse you from thought -- FLIGHT new poems forthcoming from Finishing Line Pr

Re: dictionary fails to find obvious typos

At 19:48 17/09/2019 -0400, Dave Collins wrote: I happened to run an .odt document through another spell checker and it turned up a couple of clear typos that Open Office did not catch. I've pared the doc down to just a few dozen words and pasted them into a fresh doc to rule out any potential w

Re: dictionary fails to find obvious typos

On Tue, 17 Sep 2019, DCollins wrote: > I happened to run an .odt document through another spell checker and it > turned up a couple of clear typos that Open Office did not catch. > ... > I notice that if I type just the two words directly into a fresh doc with > nothing else, OpenOffice does rec

Re: dictionary fails to find obvious typos

I'm a writer. I have office 4.1.6 now. I work with spellcheck enabled. Even so, I don't catch every typo. There's nothing like proofreading with your own eyes and hands and brain. This comes at the end of a project, after everything is in. On 9/17/2019 4:53 PM, David Belina wrote: My version

Re: dictionary fails to find obvious typos

My version of  OpenOffice (4.1.6) flags both of the mis-spelled words and suggests the proper spelling.  Srock install/update of OpenOffice to the latest version). Dave On September 17, 2019 at 5:49:19 PM, DCollins (dc...@davesbrain.ca) wrote: helping the people they serve get their needs met

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As Rory O'Farrell wrote some days, weeks and months ago: Start by renaming your existing OpenOffice user profile. As you are using Windows close OpenOffice and the Quickstarter. Open File Explorer. Copy and paste %appdata%\OpenOffice\4 in the File Explorer (sometimes called Windows Explorer) A

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On Wed, 23 Jan 2019 07:33:14 -0500 Glenn Fleming Sr. wrote: > I’m using the latest version available of Open Office but for some reason I > do not have a useable English dictionary. When I type a document I keep > getting a red underline for words not recognized……I have to do spell check > and

Re: dictionary missing for spell checker

Original Message From: Tony Mulvaney To: Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2017 12:16:58 - > Suddenly dictionary/spell checker in writer seems OK in spread sheet > I have uninstalled o/office then downloaded latest version and reinstalled it. > Still no dictionary/spell checker all words u

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Responding below, -Original Message- From: M Henri Day [mailto:mhenri...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, August 16, 2015 08:48 To: users@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Re: OT: RE: Dictionary 2015-08-16 17:24 GMT+02:00 Dennis E. Hamilton : [ ... ] ​Dennis, in Windows 10, as in Windows 8.x

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ract > (All)» ? I haven't found a third-party service like 7-zip or WinZip to be > required to open .zip files > > Henri > > > > -----Original Message- > > From: Rory O'Farrell [mailto:ofarr...@iol.ie] > > Sent: Sunday, August 16, 2015 01:16 > &g

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en such files directly from the Downloads folder by clicking​ on «Extract (All)» ? I haven't found a third-party service like 7-zip or WinZip to be required to open .zip files Henri > -Original Message- > From: Rory O'Farrell [mailto:ofarr...@iol.ie] > Sent

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to verify that the file is complete and the checksums are all verified. -Original Message- From: Rory O'Farrell [mailto:ofarr...@iol.ie] Sent: Sunday, August 16, 2015 01:16 To: users@openoffice.apache.org Cc: mroc...@yahoo.com Subject: Re: Dictionary On Sun, 16 Aug 2015 09:51:

Re: Dictionary

On Sun, 16 Aug 2015 09:51:26 +0200 Andrea Pescetti wrote: > MICHEL ROCTON wrote: > > Now, One question, I'm just trying to install the French dictionary > > unto my laptop, he download is going well but when installing I am > > getting a error message. > > This doesn't seem necessary related to

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MICHEL ROCTON wrote: Now, One question, I'm just trying to install the French dictionary unto my laptop, he download is going well but when installing I am getting a error message. This doesn't seem necessary related to the Windows 10 upgrade, but we'll need more information. Could you please

Re: Dictionary access

On 17-Jul-15 22:52, R & B wrote: Recently, for no apparent reason, the British dictionary disappeared. While trying to install a new one I have encountered two problems. Firstly, whichever way I try to install the downloaded dictionary it fails. If I try to install by clicking on the downloade