Libreoffice, no spell check?

[wilee-nilee]

http://extensions.libreoffice.org/

[sierra1bravo]

As much as I am thankful to the LO team for their much-valued work on LO, I must state that that condition of spell-check in LO is absolutely *insane*.

As someone who has been using various flavors of Linux since 1997, this is the first time that I was tearing my hair out in frustration, trying to install such a basic functionality as spell-check.

Why can't the LO team install one language (say, en-US), by default, and ensure that LO works out-of-the-box with that one language? For users of other languages, it would be clear that they have to install only the dictionaries...not start ab-initio on a wild-goose chase.

cheers and apologies for venting...




s1b
[Still trying to install spell check on a fresh 12.04 install]

[Zukaro]

I finally figured it out (with the help of a few comments on this thread ).
Go to http://extensions.services.openoffic...n/dictionaries, download a dictionary; then in Libre Office go to Tools > Extension Manager and add it into there (you just save the file to your desktop or where ever and then add it to the extension manager).

[mark q]

In my case the spell-check option to enable my language of choice was not present.

The dictionaries were installed so the problem was with the office programme.

This was remedied by the following :

1. killall soffice.bin

2. rm -r .config/libreoffice/

3. Start Libreoffice & go to Tools->Options-> Language Settings -> Default language for documents: English UK (now with spell check icon)

I hope this helps!

PS: For english uk I have libreoffice-l10n-en-gb and myspell-en-gb installed.

[shievaniupadhyay]

this so totally worked. thank u so much. i just created an account to thank u back. i was that troubled with no spell checks.