Checked between Word 200 OO and StarOffice 6, on SuSE 8.1. Really do not see what the issue is, spell check works great for me. This is really quite silly subject as I don't see the problem with the spell checker in either application. Yes Word's might be slightly better over StarOffice's (and StarOffice), but thats a poor excuse to spend $400 on a piece of software. Hey I'd rather know I'm avoiding Macro viruses, rather than miss the odd bit of typo error that is really offbeat. Just my opinion...Yes it can be improved and probably will be :). Matt On Wed, 2003-01-08 at 15:07, Kevin Wilson wrote:
WOW! This really makes me want to run out and pay $400 for MSOffice and throw away my OpenOffice for good.
Just giving ya the business ... :-)
-----Original Message----- From: Alexandr Malusek [mailto:Alexandr.Malusek@imv.liu.se] Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 4:36 PM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] MS Word spelling checker beats Open Office's!!
Marino Fernandez
writes: 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