Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 20123
Q-PCD Single place in application to change language settings
Last modified: 2007-01-18 14:13:51 UTC
Product Requirement Need single place in application to change language settings. Customer Need/Problem Language Setting from Spellchecker dialog box only changes dictionary for each word, not for next word in document. Users get confused when they think they have just changed language setting and it does not take. Product Concept For spellchecking OOo current behaviour is to stick to the language set with the settings in 'Tools - Options - Language Settings - Language' or with the formatting of the to-be-spellchecked text. Even that the user can temporarily change the language while spellchecking (F7 pressed) this setting is not persistent. It will change with the next word checked (in the current document). It is more sensible to leave the temporary setting done by the user for as long as the spellcheck dialogue (F7) is active. After closing (and re-opening) the spellchecker the setting should get set back to the initial setting.
added keyword Q-PCD
FL/TL: Just some remarks from us: - No spelling if language is "None" seems to be a problem and is set after some document imports - Loading CJK document should activate CJK support for current document - No Warning if current used language is not installed/activated
*** Issue 11044 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
according to the announcement on releases (http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=releases&msgNo=7503) this issue will be re-targeted to OOo Later.
I think this is a bad idea. Automatims like this one have a big potential to make users angry. The requirement here is to correct the language of the whole document - why not adding an entry to the context menu of the spell checker that does exactly this? Giving the user control here is the better choice. I add this suggestion to issue 1034 that covers the enhancements for language checking and guessing.
closing