On Wed, 24 Aug 2016 13:28:52 +0100 Katy Fletcher <katyfletc...@btinternet.com> wrote:
> Hi there, I have been using Open Office for many years without any problems. > For some reason today when I have tried to use it the whole of my dictionary > appears to have been wiped out so when spell checking every word is being > picked up as being wrong. It is set to English UK language and I have over > the years added a great deal of medical terminology. Even simple words seem > to have been removed. Can you please help me get this set back to how it was > yesterday please? I have not changed any settings or anything else so I do > not know what has gone wrong. Can you please help? Many thanks > > Sent from Mail for Windows 10 > Close OpenOffice and the Quickstarter. Open File Explorer. Copy and paste %appdata%\OpenOffice\4 in the File Explorer Address Bar and press Enter. Delete or Rename the "user" folder. Start OpenOffice. This cures most spellcheck problems The loss of your spellcheck facility most probably occurred because you were over hasty in powering off the computer before the OO housekeeping was fully finished. To prevent it happening again, always power the computer down after using the correct shutdown procedure and wait for all disk activity to finish - a matter of a few extra seconds to be certain. -- Rory O'Farrell <ofarr...@iol.ie> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
