Adding words to the dictionary issues...

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#1

Hello All,

I have been using LibreOffice for about 9 or 10 years, and the only thing that frustrates me about it, is this:

No matter how many times I add words to the dictionary, when running a spellcheck, the same words come back as spelling errors whenever the document is reopened. This is somewhat irksome, as I am continually having to add the same words, every single time that I reopen a document, whether that is a writer, or calc document; it takes up time doing this, repeatedly.

Am I missing something, or is this normal?

As I mentioned above, I have been using LibreOffice for almost a decade now, and this issue has been ever present, in every single version that I have had; and yes, I do keep it up to date.

Please can someone help me with this, or at least, reassure me that I am not going round the twist, lol.

Many thanks :wink:

#3

No details so only generalisations

  • Do you close LibreOffice before closing the operating system? There might not be enough time for LibreOffice to write the information before it is shut down.
  • When you start LibreOffice, do you often find you need to recover files? If so LibreOffice might be crashing rather than closing.
  • Note that Ignore will ignore the error for only the current session. If the document is reopened later the same errors will be flagged again.
#6

Are you using en_US or en_UK language?

#2

nope.

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#4

OK, so I’ll give you all more details:

Regardless of whether I am using LibreOffice Writer, or LibreOffice Calc (for my monthly budgeting), the same words are continually flagged as spelling mistakes, such as company/products names; some place names, and even occasionally, personal names; many accepted standard abbreviations, like cont., etc., inc., for example.

I constantly save whilst writing these documents, and after making any changes. I have to save these words to the dictionary, EVERY time I run a spellcheck!

My current OS is Windows 11 Pro, and previously I have run on Windows 10 Home, Windows 8 Home, and Windows 7 Home; this has been a persistent issue, on ALL of those Windows OS versions!

My pc is turned off, in most cases, hours after LibreOffice has been shutdown, and I NEVER shut LibreOffice down before it has completed a spellcheck, or finished saving a document. I update LibreOffice, as soon as a new update notification alerts me to it.

There, is that clear enough; plain enough; detailed enough? Or shall tell you all what I ate for breakfast, as well?

Honestly, I cannot believe that out of 69 views, in 5 days, the only responses have been a rather patronising AI snippet of egg-sucking usefulness, and two rather pointless, one word comments, from a 3 lettered nobody!

Great community, thanks for all the helpful feedback and suggestions!

#5

None of us can see your computer so we must ask questions. Concise but complete answers are best.

Seeing as you aren’t answering questions, I can only suggest you backup and then reset your user profile, LibreOffice user profile - The Document Foundation Wiki

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