Hi There,
I’m using LibreOffice 7.4.7.2. Its a brand new install on a very recent install of Debian.
Everything installed with no problems at all with ‘apt’ using a standard repository.
I notice that automatic capitalisation is working but nothing is getting underlined when I make a spelling mistake. I have done some Google Searching but most if not all the results came up with solutions that must be for old versions as the menus and options have changed.
I found my ~/.config/libreoffice folder and renamed it then restarted Writer, which recreated the folder as expected but that didn’t solve my problem.
I have dug through the options and things seem to be set fairly well for a guy living in Australia and typing in English. The Status Bar at the bottom of the screen shows “English (Australia)”
In Options I have three User Defined Dictionaries selected. (Default settings)
technical [All]
List of Ignored Words [All]
standard [All]
As I said everything looks good but nothing is being picked out as misspelt
Any Ideas what is going wrong?
Thanks
David
Default installation comes with only the en_US dictionary.
Does spell checking work if you change your text language to en_US? If so, this means that Writer does not fall back to “Globish” when an en variant is missing.
In Fedora, English variants are contained in a specific package, libreoffice-languagepack-en, which must be explicitly installed. The name may vary in Debian.