On Sat, 28 Jan 2017 11:42:01 +0100 Hagar Delest <[email protected]> wrote:
> Resent with full ink: > https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=74&t=12426#p58403 > > Hagar Thanks, Hagar. I hadn't noticed the damaged link. Rory > > > Le 27/01/2017 à 16:06, Rory O'Farrell a écrit : > > On Fri, 27 Jan 2017 14:42:01 +0000 > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> For some reason, the red wriggly lines which indicate a spelling or > >> grammar error, > >> now appear under EVERY word I write !! Must have clicked on something in > >> error. > >> Have gone thro the task bar at the top of the page to try to find an > >> answer. Have used ‘Help’ > >> But don’t know what the red lines are called. Can you tell me how to get > >> rid of them?? > >> > >> Mike Jenkins [email protected] > > The quick cure for this is to delete (if a new install) or rename (if you > > have been using OpenOffice for some time and have customisation, such as > > user dictionaries, the OpenOffice user profile. > > > > Details of the User Profile for various operating systems > > are given in > > > > https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/v ... 74&t=12426 > > > > If you are using Windows close OpenOffice and the Quickstarter. Open File > > Explorer. Copy and paste %appdata%\OpenOffice\4 in the File Explorer > > Address Bar and press Enter. Rename the "user" folder - "user.old" is a > > good choice. Start OpenOffice. > > > > This cures most spellcheck problems > > > > It can sometimes happen that an installation produces a faulty user > > profile "out of the box". The above fix works in the vast majority of cases. > > To prevent this happening again, be leisurely in your closing down of the > > computer after properly closing your OO file and OO. Use the formal > > computer closedown procedure and wait for a few seconds to be certain all > > disk activity has ceased - damage to the spellchecker often occurs if the > > computer is powered down before the hardware/software write buffers have > > flushed. The few extra seconds will be less than the time needed to correct > > the problem, or, more likely, to rebuild a damaged file which can also > > occur through such over-hasty shutdown. > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > -- Rory O'Farrell <[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
