Description: I installed a fresh copy of libre office. By default the spell check in broken - Automatic spell check is enabled (tool>automatic spellcheck is enabled), but entering text such as: "spel chek iz brok" does not appear with a red line under. Also tools>spellcheck finds nothing wrong with this sentence. Steps to Reproduce: 1.Download a fresh copy of English Libre Office 2.Open writer and write something misspelled e.g. "speldt wery pooorly". Actual Results: Spell checker does not underline text with red line. Spell checker (tool>spell checker) does not report misspelled words Expected Results: An out of the box functioning spell checker. Reproducible: Always User Profile Reset: No Additional Info: Getting the Libre Office spell checker to work is often a real challenge. Please consider making it easier to fix/working out of the box reliably.
Created attachment 177777 [details] Misspelled text that should be underlined
Created attachment 177778 [details] Misspelled text that should be underlined
Created attachment 177779 [details] Tools menu
Created attachment 177780 [details] Tools>Spellchecker
Created attachment 177782 [details] Tools>Spellchecker>Text Language [None]
Created attachment 177783 [details] Tools>Spellchecker>Options
This issue is probably because the language pack has not been installed yet. You can try to install the language pack using this link: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Install/Linux#Find_your_installation.2C_language_and_help_packages. > Additional Info: > Getting the Libre Office spell checker to work is often a real challenge. > > Please consider making it easier to fix/working out of the box reliably. (In reply to Richard from comment #0) I think this is related to TDF#82184, a bug report on making language-specific installations easier *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 82184 ***
Attachment 177782 [details] shows that you had not installed *any* dictionaries when installed LibreOffice. Note that language pack is unrelated to dictionaries; language pack is about UI language, and *may* (but not necessarily) include respective dictionary (depends on the packager, which in case of Linux is usually the distro maintainer). You need to consult your OS documentation regarding the way to install optional components of LibreOffice (note again, that it's the distro maintainer who decides how they prefer to split LibreOffice into separate packages, and what to install by default). See e.g. respective pages for Debian [1], Ubuntu [2], Arch Linux [3]. This is not related to bug 82184, since the Linux installation process is completely controlled by respective Linux maintainers, and is outside of scope of the LibreOffice project itself. The problem you see is not a bug, it works correctly as it should in the absence of dictionaries. [1] https://wiki.debian.org/LibreOffice#Extending_functionalities (slightly outdated - myspell was replaced with hunspell) [2] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LibreOffice#Language_localization.2C_spell_checking.2C_dictionary.2C_hyphenation.2C_thesaurus.2C_and_help [3] https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/LibreOffice#Language_aids
(In reply to Mike Kaganski from comment #8) I do have dictionaries installed - LibreOffice does not see them. I have had to move to OnlyOffice as that supports spell checking out of the box. I understand your logic, but the end user perspective of a word processor in 2022 without a functional spell checker working out of the box it that it is a bug. Distro maintainers of course have not helped here, it's just that the end user experience getting languages to work on Libreoffice is challenging.
(In reply to Richard from comment #0) > Steps to Reproduce: > 1.Download a fresh copy of English Libre Office (In reply to Richard from comment #9) > I do have dictionaries installed - LibreOffice does not see them. > I have had to move to OnlyOffice as that supports spell checking out of the box. You didn't mention: 1. Your OS and environment; 2. Where did you downloaded LibreOffice, which package; 3. Its full data from Help->About; 4. Which dictionaries have you installed on the system and how. Without that, I might misinterpret the problem you face; I assumed that you have a distro-provided LibreOffice... maybe not?