OpenOffice: Enable spell checker

If you work with OpenOffice and are used to Microsoft Word's spell checker, it can be difficult to work without it. Fortunately, OpenOffice also has a spell checker. However, you must turn it on before you can use it.

How to enable spell checking in OpenOffice?

Normally, spell checking should already be enabled in OpenOffice right after installation. If this is not the case, you can easily activate it afterwards.

1. Open the document whose spelling you want to check and click on "ABC" in the bar at the top. This is the button for the spell checker.
2. Now misspelled words in the text are subjected with a red wavy line, so that you can recognize them more easily.
3. Mistakes can be corrected by right-clicking on the word and then selecting the correct word from the list of suggested corrections.
4. Should the word be spelled correctly and still be marked in red, you can also add them to the spell checker. Dazu machen Sie abermals einen Rechtsklick auf das Wort und wählen „Hinzufügen“.
5. Möchten Sie eine manuelle Rechtschreibüberprüfung durchführen und alle falschen Wörter einzeln durchgehen, klicken Sie einfach oben in der Leiste auf das „ABC“-Symbol mit dem blauen Häkchen.