I have partially solved the problem of Abiword2 not spell checking. The previous Abiword2.0 installations had been with APT from the mathematik.uni-bielefeld.de mirror. Wondering if the files may be faulty (which I doubted), I uninstalled Abiword and Enchant, downloaded the Abiword-gnome2.0 and Enchant .rpms from Sourceforge and installed them. On installing I got the error messages that there were dependency problems because fontconfig >=2.1 libfribidi0 >=0.10.4 libgnomeprint22 >=2.2.0 libgnomeprintui22 >=2.2.0 were missing. They weren't so I ignored them. Abiword2 now spell checks correctly. However when I close the program, it crashes with the error message: Abiword (process #) has caused a fatal error (Aborted) The process number is different each time. For example it has been 2025, 2085, 2089. The next test will be to uninstall Abiword and Enchant again, and replace them with those which I will download directly from James' site. The ones I installed from Sourceforge, may not be compatible with SuSE - I don't know. I have tried the -gnome version rather than James' version on Sourceforge, as I wanted to change as much as possible for the test. I thought I would give a progress report in case it helps anyone. Cheers Keith