question about libreoffice 4.3 and automatic spell check

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#1

hi every one.
i have three questions and hope that you help me in these cases like
previous times.
1/ in libreoffice 4.4 and above, an option added for activate or
deactivate automatic spell check in the tools menu that i can select
whether i want automatic spell check to be checked or not.
whats about version 4.3? how can deactivate automatic spell check in
versions before 4.4?
2/ how can i see full list of libreoffice writer shortcuts?
and 3/ is it possible to save a document in read only mode?
for example: i write and save my document in read only mode to becomes
unchangable like pdf documents?
thanks for your help and god bless you all.

#2

For 2/, you can open Tools -> Customise -> Keyboard. However, it wont give
you a nice readable overview of all shortcuts.

#3

Pedro,

I'm still using v4.0.0.3. In this version, at least, I think you can get to the automatic spell check options you're looking for by going to Tools ... Autocorrect Options ... Options (tab). In that screen you have the opportunity to specifiy what corrections are active during typing and during manual correcting.

If that's not what you mean, and you're looking for whether or not spellcheck runs automatically all the time, that's handled through an item on the standard menu bar. You'll see two icons with a check mark and the letters ABC; one of these has a red squiggly line. The one without the line runs spellcheck (just like pressing F7), the other toggles automatic checking on and off.

For a list of shortcut keys go to Help (press F1), search on "keyboard shortcuts", then select "Shortcut Keys for LibreOffice Writer". This gives you a list of the standard shortcuts; it won't show any customized ones.

There doesn't seem to be any foolproof way of setting a file to read-only. You can set a document to be opened read-only by going to File ... Properties ... Security (tab) and checking the "Open file read-only" box. Other users can only open it as read-only, but they can make a copy and then save it with the original file name. To be fair, I think this workaround exists with almost any program, not just LO.

Dave

#4

I found the spell check options in

Language Settings>Writing Aids>Options

and check or uncheck the various options.

I am using 5.0.4.2 on a Ubuntu 15.10 64bit system.

#5

in libreoffice 4.4 and above, an option added for activate or deactivate automatic spell check in the tools menu that i can select whether i want automatic spell check to be checked or not. what's about version 4.3? how can deactivate automatic spell check in versions before 4.4?

There are many ways to do this:

o Toggle the AutoSpellCheck button in the Standard toolbar. Or remove the tick from Tools | Options... | Language Settings | Writing Aids | Options | Check spelling as you type.

o If your text is in a language for which you have no spelling dictionary, you can set the text language appropriately and the relevant text will then not be checked for spelling.

o You can set the language of your text - or parts of it - to "None (Do not check spelling)".

Note that text language can be set in various ways: as a character property, a character style property, or a paragraph style property (but not a paragraph property, although an entire paragraph can be given a language setting using the character property, of course). The default language applies only in the absence of any of these settings.

is it possible to save a document in read only mode? for example: i write and save my document in read only mode to becomes unchangeable like pdf documents?

Once you have saved your document, you can set the file as read-only outside LibreOffice. But note that this setting is an operating system property, so it will not survive your sending the file to a correspondent, for example.

But if you put your text into a "section" (using Insert | Section...), you can protect that with a password, which prevents the text being modified. There is no reason why all of a document's text should not be in a section or series of sections.

Mind you, if you want others to see the document without the possibility of modification, why not export it as PDF anyway?

I trust this helps.

Brian Barker

#6

hi brian.
your answer was very complete, useful and efficient specially about
automatic spell checking.
but i did not find standard toolbar and i dont know where it is exactly.
for read only mode, because the persian pdf documents are not
accessible for me and also i want to my documents will be remained
accessible for me too.
for this reason i prefer to dont export them as pdf.
thanks and god bless you.

#7

hi dave.
your answer is complete, and helpful too.
because of accessibility reasons, i should use libreoffice 4.3.0.2 and above.
because the previous versions need java and java access briedge and i
dont know how to use them.
but 4.3 and later versions, fortunately, thanks god, by his grace and
mercy and thanks to  the developers dont know these extra components
and are accessible by default reasonably except for some problems that
i reported before to bugzilla.
and you mentioned, that i go to the tools, auto correct options, then
options tab and select which one i want to be checked or not.
i tested this, but unfortunately nvda does not read the options and
only says checkbox check or not.
for shortcuts and read only mode, your solution was great and i did
not know them before.
thanks and god bless you.

#8

hi every one.
thanks for your helpful answers and i wish devine mercy and blessings for you.
i appreciate all of you for your help.