Hello all;
I am in the process from migrating to Linux from Windows 11. As expected, there have been few hiccups along the way. For instance, the Linux build that comes with Mint 22.1 Cinnamon seems to be missing English Sentence Checking under Tools > Options > Language and Locals. I needed this back as I came to rely on it for en-dash and em-dash context menu selection among other things. As all the Google results seemed to be old, I went exploring and got brave. I copied parts from my windows partition to their matching Linux locations and violà it’s back!
So here is how I did it. If anyone who knows better sees any issue here, or if I have posted this in the wrong place, by all means correct me 
Here are the builds and OSes in question:
LibreOffice ver: 24.8.4.2 x_64
Windows ver: Windows 11 Home 22631.4751
- and -
LibreOffice 24.2.7.2 x_64
Linux Mint 22.1 Cinnamon 6.4.6
All you are doing is copying files around and creating, or replacing, them in their Linux counterpart directories. It worked for me, but all standard warranties apply. I make no promises. YMMV.
On the Linux side, make whatever backups you feel comfortable with before you start. For files you are replacing, rename the originals with something like _old.
Quit LibreOffice first.
On the windows side, copy these files. Don’t move them, COPY them:
- dict-en directory: c:/Program Files/LibreOffice/share/extensions/dict-en
- acor_en-US.dat: C:/Program Files/LibreOffice/share/autocorr/acor_en-US.dat
On the Linux side place them here. For noobies like me, remember to sudo:
- dict-en directory goes in /lib/libreoffice/share/extensions/dict-en
- acor_en-US.dat goes in /lib/libreoffice/share/autocorr/acor_en-US.dat
Open LibreOffice and test it. I used the a dash and a bad article to force the blue grammar highlight. After copying it worked exactly like Windows did.
I hope this helps. Again, if any Foundation folk see issues with this, please yell at me. But, it worked for me, so I though it might pass it along in the hopes that it helped someone else.
Ken