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| <h2 align="center"><a name="uninstalled">Install Note:<br /> |
| Uninstalled Fonts won't Check</a></h2> |
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| > from [users] 2002-Nov-25 |
| > It turns out the problem was that OOo was defaulting to use the |
| > "Thorndale" font that is not installed on my Linux box. |
| > If OOo spell-checks an unknown font it considers it a symbol font. It |
| > never spellchecks symbol fonts so none of my text was flagged as misspelled. |
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| <p>In Issue #7336: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=7336 which was resolved 2002-Oct-08; <br /> |
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| <p>Spell checking does work. Please check the following:</p> |
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| <p>1. The font the text is written in must actually exist on the system for spell checking to work reliably.<br /> |
| <b><em>Thorndale and Albany do not exist on any system without StarOffice 6.0</em></b>.<br /> |
| So, please, highlight the text in your document and try changing it to some font that really does exist on your machine.</p> |
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| <p>2. Every document has a "language" associated with it (in fact every single character does in OOo). Please <br /> |
| highlight some mispelled text, then go to <b>Format->Character</b>, choose the <b>Font</b> tab, and look at the <br /> |
| <b>Language</b> pulldown. Change it to English (USA) and you should see a little checkmark [and Abc] beside it.<br /> |
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| [<b>Tools->Options->TextDocument->BasicFontsWestern</b>: change to fonts that <b>are</b> installed on your system.]</p> |
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