Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 114441
Change all in spell check does not work as expected
Last modified: 2014-03-05 19:38:13 UTC
I have a document which contains the same spelling error a lot of times. While checking spelling, I hit ‘change all’, however, later I see the same error pop up again and I have to confirm again. It seems as if the program ‘changes all’ only within a secret selection which it is controlling, but which is not indicated. If I click next to the spell check dialog, I see this selection flicker and disappear. (LanguageTool installed, Dutch)
Created attachment 71640 [details] test case
More detailed instructions: open the attached document (language Dutch has to be installed), do spell check. Click ‘change all’ if it suggests to change ‘anthroposofie’ to ‘antroposofie’. Then you decide to do something else in the document first, like correct an error you saw which the spell checker can’t find, so while it shows you that ‘wooren’ is incorrect, you hit ‘Close’. The ‘anthroposofie’ on the last line will not be corrected.
Another use case: put the cursor on the heading, check spelling. It will find ‘anthroposofie’, hit change all, but say no the the question to continue in the beginning of the document. The first two occurrences remain.
I believe this problem is the same as reported here: Issue 103158: The spell checker ' Change All ' option does not change all occurences Issue 110688: spellcheck: Change All button does not work correct Issue 103158 is marked as a duplicate of Issue 85936, but that seems like a different problem as I read it. The problem is that clicking "Change All" does not actually make all the changes when you click the button. The label suggests that clicking the button will apply the correction to the entire document, but if you close the spellcheck before it has searched the entire document, then some corrections may be missed. There are now at least two open issues for this problem: this one, and Issue 110688, and another that is incorrectly marked as a duplicate.
Reassigned to SBA
I also have this problem. I have multiple instances of the same spelling error, and when I use "change all", only the first instance changes. The same spelling error comes up again and again as I work through the document. This occurs using both English UK, and English USA.
My spellcheck won't work. It checks nothing. Help!!!
Confirmed with AOO410m14(Build:9760) - Rev. 1573062 2014-03-01_04:11:01 - Rev. 1573123 Debian