Created attachment 178183 [details] Screen shot showing the spelling suggestions This version of Writer regularly "red underlines" words as if they're spelled wrongly, because you edited them. This red underlining persists. This only occurs if you select part of a word and type over it to change it to another. It seems the word is being marked as wrong while it's incomplete, and left marked as a misspelling even when the edit is finished and the word is now correct and complete. This does not happen for every edit, but it happens frequently. Examples on my current page are the words "assumed" and "survived". If I right-click on the assumed, it offers only the suggestion "unassuming". For "survived" it offers the correction "survived" and some others: see attached screenshot showing that the suggested spelling for "survived" is "survived": i.e. it's wrongly marked as incorrect. On earlier pages, some other words incorrectly flagged are: detected positioning she'd Made favorite Nor does it mark a word as correct if I manually edit it from incorrect to correct for the document language. (An example is deleting the "u" from UK "favourite" to make the US "favorite".) Oh, wow: I had the word "savoured" and instead of deleting the "u" I right-clicked and selected "savored". Writer replaced the word "savoured" by "savoredsavored"! Same for changing "calibre" to US spelling: it produced "calibercaliber". Looks like spelling in this version has some problems.
Might be related to 142043 and/or 143730.
Luke, thank you for reporting the bug. It seems you're using an old version of LibreOffice. Could you please try to reproduce it with the latest version of LibreOffice from https://www.libreoffice.org/download/libreoffice-fresh/ ? I have set the bug's status to 'NEEDINFO'. Please change it back to 'UNCONFIRMED' if the bug is still present in the latest version. Change to RESOLVED WORKSFORME, if the problem went away.
I just had a look with version 7.3.0.3, which hopefully won't crash provided I don't turn on Track Changes. (Fortunately I won't need that again till later this year.) It seems fine, so I'll change it to Resolved Works for Me. Note that Spell Check however is still unusable, as reported elsewhere, due to random and incomplete behaviour, even after running it repeatedly. But that's a separate bug.