Description: I translated a German pptx / Impress document into Spanisch - but now all words are marked "false" I want to change the default lang setting of the document and foowed the help via Extra-Language and set the default language for the whole documnet to "Spanisch" and pressed appl (/ OK), but still all text passages are considereds German. I trued this with the whole document, single objects and even single words, but no change whatsoever. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Select text (object) currently marked (and spell-checked) as german 2. Set language to Spanish (Spain): Extra->Lang->More->For the whole do->Doc Default lang->Western-> Spanish (marked with extra "ab"-icon) 3. Press Apply or OK Actual Results: No lang change, still onl German spell check is used Expected Results: Lang and spell checker should switch to Spanish (marked in lang list) Reproducible: Always User Profile Reset: No Additional Info: Spanish is loaded in LibreOffice and marked with "ab"-icon
What happen if you select the text in one slide, and change the language for it to Spanish.
Nothing. I tried this with selected text, whole objects, via the master slide or individual slides - the text remains in the initial language and also the spell checker tries to correct everything that I translated to Spanish into the most similar German words. It looks like the language selector has no function at all. The only things that "works" is to enable/disable the spell checker
Please attach a sample file. What happen if you clear the direct format in the text [Ctrl+M]?
When I clear the direct format (via UI or Ctrl+Shift+M) either on text or object the lang still only remains German (incl. spell checker) also after re-selecting Spanish again.
Created attachment 190171 [details] Screenshot from adding Spanish as language
Sorry, but the screenshot doesn't serve in this case. Attach an impress sample file with the issue. And I never install an extension for the Spanish dictionary. In fact, if you install LibreOffice in Spanish, the dictionary it's automatically enabled.
Created attachment 190176 [details] Screenshot with [Ctrl+Shift+V] if something has been copied. Attached the screenshot with [Ctrl+Shift+V] if something has been copied, inside the app. Version: 7.6.1.2 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community Build ID: f5defcebd022c5bc36bbb79be232cb6926d8f674 CPU threads: 16; OS: Windows 10.0 Build 22621; UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win Locale: es-ES (es_ES); UI: en-US Calc: CL threaded
Created attachment 190192 [details] Company presentation in Spanish
I managed to set Spanish for single (exactl 1) word or line, but the language detection cannot be changed - sometimes it guesses German, Interlingua (?), Esperaanto or Katalan ... nver a whole object or the whole text.
Menu/View/Master slide. Menu/Edit/Select All Select the language on the status bar. Menu/View/Normal It seems to apply to all slides.
May be that works for you, but neither the change on the master slide nor the changes on the slides themselves has any effect for the language - still all in German. It simply refuses to change the language (see attached screenshot)
Created attachment 190203 [details] Screenshot while trying to change language on master slide(s)
Do I have to re-install LibreOffice - obviously the lang fuctionality is seriously broken in my installation.
Please test in safe mode, Menu/Help/Restart in Safe Mode
I re-installed LibreOffice (7372 on elementaryOS 7.1/ubuntu 22.04 LTS) and rebooted - no change
I also started in safe mode and reset all configs and my user profile - no change: - you cannot change language settings on objects, - single words/line are changable to what seems to be detected by first word (no change possible if guessing is wrong)
In Writer, changing the document language in the Options dialog will change the language of all paragraphs, but it will not change it inside text boxes. I think we are seeing the same issue here: because Impress uses text boxes for all text, then it looks like changing the document language changes nothing. Plus, we have the status bar not updating accordingly, which is bug 34141. However, new text boxes will use the new document language as expected. But I agree that this issue makes it very cumbersome to change a whole slideshow at once: it would have to be done in the Character dialog for each text box. Design/UX team: I couldn't find a duplicate report about that. It would make sense for the document language to be applied to all existing text boxes, right? Version: 7.6.2.1 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community Build ID: 56f7684011345957bbf33a7ee678afaf4d2ba333 CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 5.15; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3 Locale: en-AU (en_AU.UTF-8); UI: en-US Calc: threaded