spellcheck in openoffice not working

[William O'Higgins Witteman]

>I am using OpenOffice 2.0.1-2 on Debian 'Sid'. These are the packages
>I have installed:
>
>apt-get install openoffice.org openoffice.org-help-en-us myspell-en-us
>apt-get install openoffice.org-thesaurus-en-us msttcorefonts
>
>It is my understanding that myspell provides the dictionary for
>spellcheck in OpenOffice. Any idea how to fix this?

I think you may need to explicitly set up spellchecking.  I am not in
front of a machine with OOo, but I think it is Tools->Options->Language
and then you set a default locale and spelling engine from dropdowns.
-- 

yours,

William

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