Created attachment 180688 [details] test document to show the problem When the cursor is at the end of a writer document (it seems there must be at least two paragraphs) and you press F7 or start the spellchecking via menu, you get the message "Continue checking at beginning of document?". This is unnecessary, as the user expilicitly started the spell checking, and the entire document is checked regardless of the cursor position in any cas except the end of document. To test, download the test document, put the cursor at the second line and press F7.
I can confirm that this acurres. It would be more elegant, if the question would not apear when you start the checking at the end of the document.
I can confirm with 6.1.2 on debian 10. but about smart guessing… what does $User probably expect at the very End of LARGE writer-docs (eg 500 Pages +) ??
This bug irritates the user by opening windows with different content depending on the position of the cursor after F7 activation. If the cursor is at the beginning or within the text then the window shows "normal" content, at the end of the text however the window remains empty and no language is displayed or can be selected from the drop-down list.
This bug irritates the user by opening windows with different content depending on the position of the cursor after F7 activation. If the cursor is at the beginning or within the text then the window shows "normal" content, at the end of the text however the window remains empty and no language is displayed or can be selected from the drop-down list. Although this error is not very serious, it makes the user's work very difficult because the user wastes a lot of time trying to figure out the reason behind this strange error.
It seems that Calc works differently, scanning for spelling errors starts with the cell the cursor is in. So the message named above may be appropriate for Calc.
The spell checker starts at the cursor position. If there are no errors between the cursor position and the end of the document, then the first thing the user sees after opening the spell checker is this "superfluous message". In terms of work-flow, it might be fairly common to start a spell check at the end of a document - after all the content has been created.