Bug 166248 - Add to Dictionary no longer available in context menu
Summary: Add to Dictionary no longer available in context menu
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: LibreOffice (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
24.8.6.2 release
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64) Windows (All)
: medium normal
Assignee: Not Assigned
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Reported: 2025-04-19 01:32 UTC by jeff.wall.phone
Modified: 2025-05-15 16:11 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Screenshot 24.8.6 (21.71 KB, image/png)
2025-04-19 05:06 UTC, m_a_riosv
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Description jeff.wall.phone 2025-04-19 01:32:25 UTC
Description:
Prior to this update, LibreOffice would allow adding a word to its dictionary via the dropdown menu that populates upon a right-click. It does not do so anymore. Now, I have to highlight "incorrect (but actually correct)" word, go to Tools, go to Spelling, and add it from there. As a frequent writer and user of LibreOffice Writer, I find this change to increase my completion time and decrease my satisfaction with your product. LibreOffice already comes with a quite limited dictionary, which means that adding new words to the dictionary is a somewhat frequent task I must complete. Please just re-add "Add to Dictionary" at the bottom of the dropdown menu when I right-click a word.

Actual Results:
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Expected Results:
N/A


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No

Additional Info:
I did try adding a new dictionary to see if it would at least increase the amount of recognized words, but this action corrupted LibreOffice, and I had to reset my profile.
Comment 1 m_a_riosv 2025-04-19 05:06:14 UTC
Created attachment 200407 [details]
Screenshot 24.8.6

If is this option, maybe you have modified inadvertently the context menu.

Version: 24.8.6.2 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 6d98ba145e9a8a39fc57bcc76981d1fb1316c60c
CPU threads: 16; OS: Windows 11 X86_64 (10.0 build 26100); UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win
Locale: es-ES (es_ES); UI: en-US
Calc: CL threaded
Comment 2 meagan.eggert 2025-04-22 01:06:30 UTC
Version 25.2.1.2
Build ID: d3abf4aee5fd705e4a92bba33a32f40bc4e56f49
CPU threads: 8; OS: Windows 11 x86_64
UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win
Locale: en-US; UI: en-US
Calc: threaded

When trying to reproduce this bug, I discovered that if you highlight the word and right-click, the 'Add to Dictionary' option is not available, but if you just right-click on the word without highlighting the whole word, the option is available. Not sure if this is intentional behavior or not.
Comment 3 Tasneem 2025-05-15 14:27:53 UTC
Thank you for reporting the bug. I can not reproduce the bug in

Version: 25.2.3.2 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: bbb074479178df812d175f709636b368952c2ce3
CPU threads: 12; OS: Windows 11 X86_64 (10.0 build 26100); UI render: Skia/Vulkan; VCL: win
Locale: en-US (en_US); UI: en-US
Calc: CL threaded
Comment 4 Jeremy Norvell 2025-05-15 16:11:50 UTC
Thank you for reporting the bug. I can confirm that the reported behavior change between the two installs below. Right clicking (without highlighting and selecting) a misspelled word under version 25.2 provides a menu which includes "Add to Dictionary". However, this option is no longer present under version 25.8. Version details follow below.

Version: 25.2.3.2 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: bbb074479178df812d175f709636b368952c2ce3
CPU threads: 2; OS: Windows 10 X86_64 (10.0 build 19045); UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win
Locale: en-US (en_US); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded

Version: 25.8.0.0.alpha0+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 9bc5b89c149497a83117edfadc3fb0b96d2f9899
CPU threads: 2; OS: Windows 10 X86_64 (build 19045); UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win
Locale: en-US (en_US); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded