Spell cheking not working

[jfe]

I use both English and Hebrew when writing. I cannot get spellcheck for either languages. When writing the text

sdfs sdfds sdfds

sdf

I see no red underline, clicking review > spell check brings up the popup "no misspelled words detected". File > options > Language has the "use background spell-checking" checked, includes only Hebrew (I assume that English is installed by default.

I am running Linux 4.16.8-1-ARCH

[Jossi]

Select some English or Hebrew text, then go to Format > Character... Is the correct language indicated?

[jfe]

Where should I see that?

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[Jossi]

In the context menu shown in your screenshot, click "Character...".

[jfe]

I think so. This is what I see

[Jossi]

In the upper right corner of the dialogue there is the field "Language". It shows which language the selected text has. So, if it is a text in English, "English (United States)" or "English (UK)" is fine. If it shows "Default", as with the Hebrew text in your first screenshot, it is the language which was defined as Default language in Tools > Options..., tab "Language". If Hebrew is not your default language, you must change the language of the text from "Default" to "Hebrew".

[jfe]

Okay, so now I got Hebrew to work. I wonder if that is because I manually installed the Hebrew dictionary but not English.

According to http://www.freeoffice.com/en/support/ti ... ctionaries English is pre installed so maybe not...

[jfe]

any ideas why English does not work?

[sven-l]

Please check the following steps in case that the spell checker (F7) does not work properly:

1. Select your text and invoke Format=>Character. Make sure that the language for the selected text is set to "English" for english text and "Hebrew" for Hebrew text.

2. Invoke Tools=>Options=>Language and set the default language to "English" or whatever your default language should be. Also make sure that there is a green tick next to every language entry you need. This indicates that the corresponding spell check dictionary is correctly installed. If the green tick is missing for your language, please start the Setup of SoftMaker Office again and perform a complete installation. This will install al dictionaries. You will not lose any settings with that new installation.

3. Make sure that the spell checker is enabled in Tools=>Options=>Language

[jfe]

I was able to fix it. I downloaded the English dictionary from here: https://www.softmaker.com/en/downloads/dictionaries . I assumed that it came preinstalled with English, but I guess not.