Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 113218
spellcheck returns false negative on entire document - spell check
Last modified: 2010-07-18 15:37:26 UTC
I found a bug whereby Open Office spellcheck ( spell check ) incorrectly reports that there are no spelling errors in the document regardless of how many errors are in the document. This issue happens because you have a spell check instance already running in another document. Steps to reproduce: 1) Launch OO Writer. This will result in the creation of a new text document referenced in this bug report as document 1. 2) type something with a spelling error in document 1. 3) create a new text document. This will leave your original document open, and will result in a second document being created. This second document is referenced in this bug report as document 2. 4) type something with a spelling error in document 2. 5) switch to document 1 6) run spell check on document 1 until spell check complains about the spelling error. It should say "not in dictionary." Leave this dialogue untouched as you proceed to step 7 7) switch to document 2 8) run spell check on document 2. Notice that the spell check reports in document 2 that there are no spelling errors. This is a false report, because in fact, there are spelling errors in document 2. Note: I am considering that Spell check is reporting that there are no spelling errors, even though it doesn't explicitly say this, since the result it gives in this issue ("the spell check is complete") is the result it normally gives when there are no errors, therefore the user can reasonably be expected to interpret this as meaning there are no errors. How I found this bug: By chance I ran through the above described steps, and I was rather confused and frustrated until I realized what was going on. Speculation: This bug possibly is specific to the Windows GUI. Priority: I don't know how important a priority you consider this. I would personally consider this to be very high priority as it could result in something terrible happening such as sending off to someone a letter or e-mail or resume replete with spelling errors. This could be very embarrassing. I set this issue at a P4 -- Please feel free to adjust the relative priority to whatever is appropriate in your system. Subcomponent: I have no idea if I selected the correct subcomponent. other: This may be a duplicate bug. There were 5 issues whose summary was "spell check" however I did not look at those issues as I am not inclined to spend time reading issues with meaningless summaries :-) Thanks for your attention to this issue!
duplicate *** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 74574 ***
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