Spell check doesn't work

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You have to assign a language to your text, or the spell checker won’t work. You can do that in tools - Options - Language settings - Languages - Default Languages for Documents. But you cal also modify the Default paragraph style, select the Font tab and select a language there.

Please note that the spell checker doesn’t automatically correct any errors, it just highlights them. Lowercase changing to uppercase is Autocorrect’s work. Take a look at Tools - Autocorrect - Autocorrect options to see what it will do for you (and disable anything that you don’t like).

EDIT: Make sure that hunspell is also ticked, that’s the actual spell checking module. There’s a bug in Apache OpenOffice, and maybe in Libre as well, that messes up spell checking for files created in Windows Explorer (the file manager, not the Internet browser). Can you get the spell checking to work in files created within Writer? If you can, upload a sample file for testing purposes.

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You can also try Tutorial Spell check and Language configuration - and check in at that forum to get more help. When you register, you need to provide a (fake) version of OpenOffice that you use, a trick to defeat spam bots.

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Spelling doesn’t correct files created by LO or MSO.
I can’t find “Hunspell” or instructions regarding it - so can’t see if it’s ticked. Maybe somebody will tell me?

Tools>Language Settings>Writing Aids should show 3 Boxes. The top one “Available language modules:” should show as in the picture from @anon87010807. This shows “Hunspell”.

When I go to >Options - Language Settings - Writing Aids< the only module shown is "Lightproof grammar checker (English)

Hunspell is not there under Writing aids or anywhere elsse.Lacking any further instructions on how to install Hunspell into the list I guess that I am to select Edit - get more dictionaries online but find I am unable to find Hunspell. Please tell how to find and install Hunspell . . . .Thanks.

You have to run the install program for LibreOffice again. This is a serious failure. Did you download the program from the official site?

I deleted the previous version of LO and installed a new one - nothing has changed. Both downloads were from www.Libreoffice.org/download

Still no hunspell module? It seems to me that direct access to your computer is necessary to solve this. That means: ask a friend who is more comfortable with computers than you are to sort this out. Questions can be asked at http://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/ (easier comnnumication than here, for registration you have to add a (phoney) version of OpenOffice).

Problem solved.

Early on in this session I was advised that changing the user profile was not necessary. Well guess what? It was - and it seems to have fixed my spellcheck problem.
Thank you very much for your time and interest in solving this.

I supposed that if this was the first time ever that you installed LibreOffice, the user profile couldn’t be corrupted yet. But apparently it can. How long have you had LibreOffice?

Since 11/5/2016
And now with the spell check working I am a happy camper.
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Okay, that’s long enough for it to get corrupted. Pity I thought you had just downloaded and installed it. Glad it’s solved. :slight_smile:

“Make sure that hunspell is also ticked” - yes, that should be the first proffered solution.

Also, it is my experience that sometimes hitting the Apply button will actually toggle the Check spelling as you type" option, meaning if you have that option highlighted and deselect it with your mouse and hit Apply, then it will placed the check mark in it to activate it, but if you hit Apply again it will deselect it. But if your use your mouse to activate it and hit OK then it will work.

That doesn’t happen for me. Maybe there’s something wrong in your version of LibO. Regardless, that kind of thing deserves its own topic. This topic was marked as solved, you shouldn’t start a new discussion in it. We want to keep this board tidy.

I am a new user who has poured over the questions and answers with no success.

LO version 5.2.3.3
MS Windows 10 with current updates.
The spell checker never worked except once there appeared a squiggly line under a word but it wouldn’t give me a suggestion and has never done it again. Typing a sentence with obvious errors then selecting “Tools/Spelling and Grammar” results the message: “Spellcheck is complete”.
Selecting Tools/Language - gets a check mark for English (USA) and no others.

Looking in: “Tools->Options …, Language Settings->Writing Aids” Items with checks are the following:

Lightproof grammar checker English.

Standard all English.
en US english USA.
Technical all.
IgnoreAllList all.

Check spelling as you type.
Check uppercase words.
Check special regions.
Minimum number . . . . . 5
Characters before . . . . 2
Characters after. . . . . . 2
Hyphenate special regions.

Regarding: “in tools - Options - Language settings - Languages - Default Languages for Documents.” The defaults are set for English USA.

This isn’t an answer, please repost as a question. This board is hard enough to handle, you can’t have more than one specific question in one thread. Hunspell spell checker should be on.

You say “Repost as a question” then say “You can’t have more than one specific question in one thread.” That only serves to further confuse me. My second posting was not a question but was an attempt to supply more information as I was told. (???) Doesn’t the information I posted answer your questions? Also how do I turn on “Hunspell spell checker”?

Sorry, I must have been very confused when I posted that comment.

This problem was solved - is there something I’m supposed to do to close it?

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