Hello all,
I installed the multilingual libreoffic but spellchecking is not working
In tools extension the german langauge pack is listed as installed, The document has german as language but no errors are flagged.
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Spellcheck german not working
October 16, 2022 - 10:09am
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Spellcheck german not working
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- Try updating your extension.
- A good alternative is LanguageTool, that has been added to LO 7.4.x More details → https://extensions.libreoffice.org/en/extensions/show/languagetool.
Three decades AD. Romans fight Christianity.
Three centuries AD. Romans Adopt Christianity.
-Neo Buddha-
In the extension Manager nearly everything is greyed . I can 'Check for updates' and 'Add' , but neither 'Remove' nor 'Disable/Enable' . Fresh multilingual install
Many thanks and best regards,
Norbert
Yes, default extensions don't seem 'updatetable'. I'm updating mine manually, and thought that the German dictionaries will have some up-to-date versions, like the English one, updating every month (https://extensions.libreoffice.org/).
PS. LanguageTool is still a nice alternative.
Three decades AD. Romans fight Christianity.
Three centuries AD. Romans Adopt Christianity.
-Neo Buddha-
I tried installation both with and without removing the extra languages
Many thanks and best regards,
Norbert
Hi NorbertK,
I tried to reproduce this, but on my win10/64 machine everything works as expected. Automatic and manual spellchecking work flawless. Maybe some more information is needed to nail down the error.
What I did:
Everytime I got a working german spellchecking.
Did you anything different from that?
LibreOfficePortable_7.4.1_MultilingualStandard.paf.exe. Portable Apps n German. With and without removing of extraneous languages.
Windows 10 in German, verified in 2 boxes, one of tem quite fresh. I even did a 'direct' install withoud PF.EXE but nothing changes. In My Windows setup I have installed english as additional language.
I tried to compare the files in %APPDATA% (of an non-portable editione) with the ones in Portableapps and saw some differences but I don't know what to watch for.
Many thanks and best regards,
Norbert
So, at first glance, the only difference seems to be the additional system language. Maybe that interferes, but I don't know the mechanics behind that or if anything has changed. A quick search with google found some bug reports with documents in other languages. Is your LibreOffice installation in german or in english.
You did a non-portable install of LibreOffice 7.4.1. on the same machine, I guess? That does work?
Sorry that I cannot provide a solution, but the more detailed information John gets, the better he can destinguish, if it's a bug or a setup error.
No problem, I am eager to provide any help I can.
For the time being i use the 'still' version which works fine.
Many thanks and best regards,
Norbert
Sorry, I forgot to mention. German spellchecking in the still version (7.3.6 ) works fine
Many thanks and best regards,
Norbert