Saturday, June 7, 2008

OpenOffice Spellchecker

OpenOffice is a little biased when including language dictionaries for spellchecking. For instance, the Canadian English dictionary is not included by default. However, this can easily be remedied by doing the following:

1. File > Wizard > Install new dictionaries...
2. follow the wizard and install the appropriate languages you want
3. Close all OpenOffice programs
4. Restart OpenOffice

Now, when you go to:

Tools > Options... > Language Settings > Languages > Default languages for documents > Western

you should be able to select "English (Canada)" and it should have an "ABC" with a checkmark icon. This means you can now spellcheck in Canadian English!


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