Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 97511
Adding words to spell-check dictionary is unintuitive
Last modified: 2013-02-07 22:42:38 UTC
In Calc, if there is a word improperly marked as a misspelling, I want to add it to the dictionary so the false positive doesn't show up anymore. I right-click the word and click "Add". It pops out a menu with several options: soffice.dic sun.dic IgnoreAllList standard.dic I am a technical user, and I have no idea which option I should select. A non-technical user would just be lost. Instead, the context menu action should be more explicit, like "Add to dictionary" or "Word is spelled correctly" or "Not a misspelling". If there is only one logical choice for the dictionary, then there should be no sub-menu. Clicking "Add to dictionary" should just add it to the user's custom dictionary. If there is a choice to be made, it should be stated in a clear way. If there's a difference between a user's custom dictionary and the system-wide custom dictionary, for instance, the sub-menu choices could be phrased as "Add to my dictionary" and "Add to dictionary for all users".
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