have you tried saving in rtf in windows? that's a simple text format,
but keeps some formatting... have you checked out
http://www.ooodocs.org/ ? Maybe pose this question to an OO
developer...
On Fri, 2003-07-25 at 07:16, Frank Roberts - SOTL wrote:
> Update
>
> What file checkers say is that all the non marked delete words from spell
> check have been checked. Problem is all words are marked as delete from spell
> check.
>
> I have tried that file in OO Writer, Kword, Abbie Word, and MS Office Word XP
> with the same results. This is a dual boot box set up so Windows and Md 9.1
> will see a common data set.
>
> I have observed this same situation on Star Office 5.1 and was one of the
> major reasons that I utterly hated Star Office. There were a few other other
> idicies too.
>
> Not to be outdone MS Office Word 95 also has the same effect. I can transfer
> the file from my laptop and spell check it in my Win 98 desktop with the same
> results.
>
> Before my Zenith laptop crashed I would transfer similar files to it and
> perform spell check in Word 4. That worked. But that is not an option
> anymore.
>
> I just discovered this morning that I can spell check this file in Lotus word.
> It seems that the old simple word processors work. The new modern updates
> super wham-doom word processors fail.
>
> What would be nice is if some one could advise how to reset the file so that
> all words would be spelled checked with our saving the file as text,
> reloading, and the reformatting.
>
> This seems to be a lot of work to have to go through because of cutizie.
> Recall the old programs do work.
>
> Frank
>
>
> On Friday 25 July 2003 04:19, Ronald KA4INM Youvan wrote:
> > I have the latest version of oo, this problem appears after several
> > hours of work on a file, with most file types.
> > (while working on a file after spell checking has failed:)
> > I save, open a new window, range a couple of paragraphs, CTL+C,
> > ALT+TAB to the new window, CTL+V, spell check, CTL+A, CTL+C, ALT+TAB,
> > [DELETE} the old range, CTL+V, save.
> >
> > I'm 6 or 8 pages into a 12 or so page letter to a chum, what a pain,
> > I am looking forward to the improvements including filters for the
> > thousands of WP 5.1 files I have.
> >
> > > I can open a new blank file and type what ever I desire spell check the
> > > new file, save the new file, and reopen the new file, deliberately change
> > > words to be spelled incorrectly, spell check it with no problems then
> > > switch back to the original open window and still receive the same
> > > message that OO Writer can not find a dictionary.
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