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to small "save dialogue windows"

Asked by Jaggu

Hi all,

When i work in Open office i find the "save as" dialogue windows a bit to small to comfortably direct the document to the proper disc. Every time i want to save i have to enlarge the dialogue window to be able to click on the proper disc.

I wonder if somebody know how to permanently enlarge the dialogue window.

I am using Ubuntu 7.04 and Open Office 2.2.

It would be great if you could provide me step by step instructions for rectifying the problem.

Best regards

mats

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Cesare Tirabassi (norsetto) said : 		#1

Can you check in OOo Writer Tools->Options->Language Settings what is specified under Languages and Writing Aids?

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EmmaJane (emmajane) said : 		#2

I found this page which solved the problem for me:

http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=50862
specifically:
Language in an OOo document is set as part of styles in OpenOffice.org. You are probably attempting to spell check in documents where the Default paragraph style and some or all other styles have the language attribute of "English (USA)" rather than "English (UK)".

I had "English (Canada)" as my default style which does not have a dictionary associated with it. As soon as I changed it to English (USA) which does have a dictionary, I was fine!! I hope that helps!

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Best EmmaJane (emmajane) said : 		#3

I should have pasted a bit more... (this is how I actually solved the problem)

Press F11 to bring up the Stylist. Select Default from the list, right-click it, select Modify, select the Font tab, and change the language setting for that style to English (UK). This should mostly cascade down to other styles. (You can check for any other styles you are using). If you have been doing direct formatting, you may also have to select your entire document (CTRL-A), select Format>Character>Font and set the language to English (UK) here also...

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Jaggu (jag-kris) said : 		#4

Thanks buddy :)

It now works fine....

Hope you guys can include this bit of information, if its not available as of now, in future documentations. You can maybe prominently list the languages for which the Spell checker and Thesaurus would work.

Once again Thanks...

Regards,
JK