Issue 121891

Summary:	spell checking
Product:	Writer	Reporter:	Ed Willoughby <sspur38>
Component:	formatting	Assignee:	AOO issues mailing list <issues>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	issues
Version:	3.4.1
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows XP
Issue Type:	DEFECT	Latest Confirmation in:	---
Developer Difficulty:	---

Description Ed Willoughby 2013-03-12 19:49:57 UTC

There is an icon that is colored blue with the spell check feature. Next to it is an icon that is a spell check with a red squiggly line under the 'ABC'. When I have a regular document and want to spell check it I used to simply click on the 'blue' ABC spell check icon and the program would highlight only the words spelled incorrectly.  Now when I do the same process I get either of two results, all the words are underlined with the red squiggly lines or every word comes up in the window as be spelled incorrectly.
I have no idea what to do about the problem. I am 74-years of age and I am not a computer wizard, nor am I very coumputer literate. I just do do not know what to do next to correct this problem. In addition, I find it very difficult to understand the words that are used in the programing language.
Pleas help.
Thank you so very much for your help.
Sincerely,
Ed Willoughby

Comment 1 Rob Weir 2013-03-21 18:36:09 UTC

There are many things that can cause spell checking to not work, but the only known bug that can cause this is 121930, which has a workaround, namely resetting the profile.

Your best bet is to try the user support forums (http://forum.openoffice.org) for help.

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