Issue 121887

Summary:	Spell checker, hyphenation, and auto-correct have stopped working.
Product:	Writer	Reporter:	ladyanneonymous
Component:	editing	Assignee:	AOO issues mailing list <issues>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	arielch, issues, ladyanneonymous, rainerbielefeld_ooo_qa, vittorioolivati
Version:	3.4.1
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows 8, 8.1
Issue Type:	DEFECT	Latest Confirmation in:	---
Developer Difficulty:	---

Description ladyanneonymous 2013-03-12 14:36:16 UTC

The program was working fine until about a week ago, when the spell checker, hyphenation, and auto-correct all suddenly stopped working in Writer. They still work fine in Draw and Calc. I've tried uninstalling and re-installing and checked all the options I could think of, but it still won't work.

Comment 1 Olivax 2013-04-12 10:29:43 UTC

I have the same problem, and more, spell checker has stopped working in Calc too.

Version: AOO 3.4.1; language interface: Italian
Platform: PC Windows 7 SP 1
Languages set in language bar: Italian (default), English, Russian

N.B.: I made no change in Options configuration. When selecting from tools menu the language sub-menu, this one shows (no matter if "by selection", "by paragraph" or "in all the text"), beside Italian, just one out of "Esperanto", "Portoguese", or "Catalan" in an apparently randomic way; notice that none of the other languages I set in my PC (English, Russian) are available, even though they were just until a few days ago. Anyway, no flag appears on any selection I make in that sub-menu.

I suspect that some configuration file or registry item went corrupted.

As for priority / severity classification, please notice that OO still works, but "Spell Check" feature is completely unusable, nor there seems to be a manual procedure to bypass the problem.

Thank you for your attention.

Comment 2 Rainer Bielefeld 2013-05-22 04:27:54 UTC

This might be a profile problem, to be solved by renaming the user profile. See the first item at <http://www.openoffice.org/development/releases/3.4.1.html#AOO3.4.1ReleaseNotes-KnownIssues> for description and instructions.

Related to "Bug 121930 - Tracking Issue for 3.4.1 Spell Correction Not Working" for now.

@Reporter:
Do the hints on linked page solve your problem?

Comment 3 Ariel Constenla-Haile 2013-06-05 14:21:47 UTC

Add to Tracking Issue

*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of issue 121930 ***