Continuing the discussion from Spell check doesn’t work:
It is disconcerting that spell check (as you type) doesn’t work unless you use English (USA) in all language settings. (<Options…> [check out 3 entry points])
The same situation occurs in Open Office.
The US lanuage invariably will drop “u” from words like “colour”. These “quirks” can be added to your custom dictionary, The spell check wil pick these up in the future.
It is a program error (and possibly very early in the development of the suites). It applies to Calc as well as Write.
The program should “remember” your new settings.
Could you give more technical details? At least OS name, LO version and save format.
I write documents in several languages and, among these, I prefer English (UK) over English (USA) and have no problem.
When I create multi-lingual documents, spelling is correctly checked in the “local context”. Perhaps, attach a “faulty” 1- or 2-page document so that we can have a look at it.
Sorry, I should have included:-
Operating system – Windows 11,
LibreOffice Version no, – 25.8.2.2
Most documents are saved in LibreOffice and Open Office defaault/native format (but spell checking is done usually long before saving).
My preference for a language base was English (AUS) and it was while using this base the spell check issue was apparent (a good tester would try all language bases - but I was content to find a solution and escalated no further).
I am not familiar with W$ installation procedure. Under Linux, LO comes with no language except en_US. Others languages require installing a specific “package”. English variants are provided by libreoffice-langpack-en. Spellchecking is under responsibility of hunspell assisted by packages hunspell-en, hunspell-en-US and hunspell-en-GB.
If you found a solution, please share it for others’ benefit.
If you live in Australia and you bought your computer there, then probably the operating system is set to USA (a bizarre and hugely irritating inconvenience by the importers) which is why everything else defaults to USA including your LibreOffice download.
Windows
Set your computer to Australia (or take it to the retailer and ask for them to do it under guarantee or consumer guarantee act or equivalent)
Click Start menu > Settings > Time & Language > Language & Region and under
- Region set everything to Australia
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Language . Windows Display Language set to English (Australia). If that is not a choice, then click the button Add a language.
There might be several languages listed, make sure that English (Australia) is at the top of the list, if it isn’t then move it to the top.
Close the Settings dialogue
LibreOffice
First set LibreOffice to Australia
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Click Tools > Options > Languages and Locales > General and set Locale setting to English (Australia). Under Default Languages for Documents set Western to English (Australia). It should show a green tick next to the entry but if it is missing OK out then
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Click Tools > Spelling. OK the Information dialogue if it appears so as to access the Spelling dialogue.
Click Options button and in the new dialogue click the link Get more dictionaries online. A new dialogue window will open. Search for English Dictionary and click the Install button.
Or
Download it from English Dictionary » Libreoffice Extensions and click Tools > Extensions. In the dialogue click Add and navigate to and select the newly downloaded extension, click the Open button and follow any other instructions