On Wed, 5 Jun 2019 13:07:10 +0000 Bill Coleman <billcol...@outlook.com> wrote:
> Hi Rory ... thanks ... I will try to follow your suggestion ... might seem > like a silly question but how do I change my OO user profile ... thanks, Bill Follow the instructions below. > > > > Sent from Mail<https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for Windows 10 > > > > ________________________________ > From: Rory O'Farrell <ofarr...@iol.ie> > Sent: Wednesday, June 5, 2019 1:42:46 PM > To: users@openoffice.apache.org > Cc: billcol...@outlook.com > Subject: Re: Red spelling lines > > On Wed, 5 Jun 2019 12:34:24 +0000 > Bill Coleman <billcol...@outlook.com> wrote: > > > Hi ... I had been using Open Office (4.1.6) this morning normally and it > > would indicate to me when I made a spelling mistake. Also if I hadn’t > > corrected my mistakes as I was typing I could use the check spelling option > > at the end and it would highlight each mistake for me to correct. I came > > back to the same document a couple or so hours later and not only this > > document but all my documents are now underlined in squiggle red lines > > indicating every word is a spelling mistake. It also now happens when I > > type a new document (see attached). Has something gone wrong with the > > program and is there something I can do about it? If not how can it be > > fixed so I can use it the way I had been? > > > > For the record I am using Windows 10 on a Lenovo ideapad 330S. Please can > > you help. > > > > Thank you, Bill > > Try renaming your OO user profile. > > If 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) > Address Bar and press Enter. Rename the "user" folder - "user.old" is a good > choice. Start OpenOffice. > > This cures most spellcheck problems. > > This loss of spellchecking happens usually because the computer has been > powered off too hastily or the laptop lid closed before the internal buffers > of the hard drive have flushed to the disks. > > -- > Rory O'Farrell <ofarr...@iol.ie> -- 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
