Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit. SP 1 Acer Aspire X1420G, 4GB Ram On installation of 3.5.1, spell checker would not work in Writer. In Language Settings, Writing aids, the Available language module field was blank, no modules were listed. Uninstalled 3.5.1 and installed 3.5.2. Spell checker still would not work. I goggled the problem and found others having the same problem. Took a suggestion and downloaded the U.S. English Dictionary from Open Office.Org Extensions. I used version 1.0 dated 29 October 2008. I checked all language settings to make sure US English was the default. Success! Now the spell checker works. I also installed 3.5.1 on a 32 bit XP system and everything worked fine, including the spell checker. This was with all the settings at default. I suspect that one of these variables may be the cause of the problem: 1) 64 bit system 2) Windows 7 3) The English dictionaries that come with 3.5.1 and 3.5.2 are not compatible with the program. Other than that, LibreOffice is a great program and I am happy to have it. Thank You! -Rick.
English spellchecker works by default on my computer. I’m also using LO 3.5.2 with Windows 7 64 bits SP1. Issues with spellcheckers are almost always due to specific installation. Often a question of rights. Did you install the software as an administrator (right click)? Have you asked for help on the support forum? http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/ This bug cannot be confirmed as long as it works properly for most people.
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I found out it a more quirky. And I really cannot found solution for that. Especially that I run the same installation on several machines, and on clean system it looks that way. I created .mst which selects 3 languages and dictionaries to install by default (Polish, English and Russian). And on Windows XP 32-bit it worked as it should On Windows Vista+ problems arises: English works as expected, is present in settings and I can change anything in in settings, it is also present in extension manager with locker on it, so it is accessible to all users. Russian works as expected, is present in settings and I can change anything in in settings, it is also present in extension manager with locker on it, so it is accessible to all users. Polish don't work at all, there's no settings for it on dictionary lists, it is present in extension manager with locker on it, so it *should be* accessible to all users, but there's no options when I click on it, and no way to select it as current dictionary for any user. So it looks like some language modules have got something wrong in it. Of course whole package is installed with elevated rights as administrator. On systems other than XP there is need to manually add for every user other Polish dictionary, supplied one won;t work on other than XP systems.
Some more findings... My previosu findings was a little bit wrong, none of dictionaries are usable, because there's no selectable Hunspell module in settings/dictionary options. When I install any other standalone dictionary package, hunspells arrives and automagicly all previously by default installed dictionaries starts to working. How to dig it deeper to find out why Hunspell is not available on other than XP systems? Only available under Vista+ systems: LightProof grammar checkers Not available: Hunspell Spellchecker Libhyphen Hyphenator OpenOffice.org New Thesaurus Lack of those modules causes not working spellchecker at all on other than XP systems.
(In reply to comment #4) > Some more findings... [...] @MandiATO: Thanks for your comments (based on LibO 3.5.4 release?). That's probably a duplicate of 'Bug 50552 - SPELL check does not mark wrong text and capitalization rules'. Please have a look at the above-mentioned bug and try the described workaround. Please do not modify the version picker → http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/BugReport_Details#Version .
@Manj_k: I tested it on latest public release (3.5.4.2) but it shows up much earlier, but I can't find out in my memory exact release when it starts to appear. And I can confirm that it is the same as described in 'Bug 50552 - SPELL check does not mark wrong text and capitalization rules'. Workaround from 50552 works, but it will be hard to do it manually on all machines with many users, but workaround seems to work OK. So this one could be marked as duplicate and pointed to 50552.
(In reply to comment #6) > [...] > So this one could be marked as duplicate and pointed to 50552. @MandiATO: Thanks for testing and confirmation. The bugfix for bug 43989 will probably also resolve this problem (bug 50552) in version 3.5.5. Some personal tests with current developer builds (v3.7/3.6) have confirmed this assumption (for me). *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 50552 ***