I apologise if this was filed already. I had this issue with 3.3.x, hoping for a fix in 3.4, so I installed it just to find that the problem persists. The spell check functions (both AutoSpellcheck and manual Spelling and Grammar) do not work in certain circumstances. I am positive that my dictionaries and language aid tools are installed and enabled, as they should be. For this purpose, I have attached two screenshots of what's in my Language Settings: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2150428/lo1.png http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2150428/lo2.png HOW TO REPLICATE: 1. With the same language settings as mine, create a new Writer document by right-clicking the desktop > New > OpenDocument Text 2. Enter some misspelled words. 3. LibreOffice should underline the words, but it does not. 4. Try manual spelling check by pressing F7. 5. The spelling check immediately completes with no mistakes found - there is also no language selected in the "Text language" combo box. If, however, a new document is created inside the LibreOffice Writer (File > New > Text Document), everything works fine as expected. SUMMARY: For some reason, any documents created by LibreOffice's context menu integration (I believe that's how they call it) cannot be spellchecked. Changing the settings does not work.
All documents created by the Windows Explorer context menu have their language set to None. You can see this on the status bar of Writer for example. You can set the language of the character/pararagraph manually, and then you can check the spelling. It is not possible to create a new file with the actual language set by the context menu, because it is in fact not a document creation but a file copy. See the files at C:\WINDOWS\SHELLNEW\.
Thanks, Andras. That little [None] in the status bar is almost impossible to notice. When I looked at the Language Settings, spellcheck icons in the menu bar and the Tools > Language in the main menu, everything seemed to be enabled - there was no indication whatsoever that the language is set to None. I am also surprised, that changing the language of a selection/paragraph/document in the main menu did not make any difference either - the language still remained set to None. I would suggest that this is improved - that the status bar reflects the actual settings, instead of providing the only way of changing them. It would certainly improve the product's quality a deal.
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