MS Word spelling checker beats Open Office's!!
I know beforehand that I may get some angry replies for the title and for what I am going to write here, so I'll say it myself... I am a dumb-illiterate-newby, idiot, imbecil, Bill-Gates-lover (hey, hold it there, this last one is not true!!!)... so you can skip the part where you trash me and get to the constructive part. The issue at hand is this. I started writting a document in open office, and I realized that the spelling checker recognizes that some words are misspelled but does not provides suggestions (i.e. i wrote commitement (should be commitment)). So I rebooted and did it with MS Word and I had absolutely no problems... I hate this, you know. So, maybe I am missing some module for the spelling checker, or may be I should use a better dictionary... or, er, can I use the one from MS Word?. Any ideas or suggestion. Thank you. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com
Do you get any spell checking workign in OOo ? Do you have other words which are incorrectly spell checked ? Also it's probably a better idea to send a question like this to discuss@openoffice.org CPH On Wednesday 08 January 2003 18:17, Marino Fernandez wrote: [snip]
The issue at hand is this. I started writting a document in open office, and I realized that the spelling checker recognizes that some words are misspelled but does not provides suggestions (i.e. i wrote commitement (should be commitment)). So I rebooted and did it with MS Word and I had absolutely no problems... I hate this, you know.
So, maybe I am missing some module for the spelling checker, or may be I should use a better dictionary... or, er, can I use the one from MS Word?.
Any ideas or suggestion. Thank you.
--- Harry Wert
You are missing a module which you failed to select at install time.
Which is?... I actually don't think so. I just downloaded and installed open office in windows and is the same thing... unless i forgot to load the same "module" on windows. I actually made some test, and MS word did a much better job: professional OO MS Word proffessional professional professional proffesional N/A professional porffesional N/A professional poffesional N/A professional poffesiomal N/A professional poffesioanal N/A professional offesioanal N/A N/A As CP Hennessy suggested, I'll try to find out in the open office site. PS as somebody may well point out, thats because MS word is for people with brain damage... but that is a lame excuse. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com
Marino Fernandez
I actually don't think so. I just downloaded and installed open office in windows and is the same thing... unless i forgot to load the same "module" on windows. I actually made some test, and MS word did a much better job:
professional OO MS Word proffessional professional professional proffesional N/A professional porffesional N/A professional poffesional N/A professional poffesiomal N/A professional poffesioanal N/A professional offesioanal N/A N/A
If OO uses ispell (I haven't checked it) then this is the default behavior of ispell: <info ispell> If there are "near misses" in the dictionary (words which differ by only a single letter, a missing or extra letter, a pair of transposed letters, or a missing space or hyphen), then they are also displayed on following lines. As well as "near misses", ispell may display other guesses at ways to make the word from a known root, with each guess preceded by question marks. All words for which OO didn't provide an alternative differed by at least 2 letters.
PS as somebody may well point out, thats because MS word is for people with brain damage... but that is a lame excuse.
I think you are right that ispell should be improved. -- Alexandr.Malusek@imv.liu.se
participants (3)
-
Alexandr Malusek
-
CP Hennessy
-
Marino Fernandez