[senco-forum] RM Asus Mini-book

Have had an Asus mini-book for some time but have just become aware of a
problem with Open Office and the Spellchecker because I personally never
use a spellchecker on my documents.

Basically - it doesn't work! RM are as useful as a chocolate teapot as "we
don't support that machine, software or OS - you'll have to contact the
manufacturer".  But the manufacturer don't produce Open Office - its open
source software and there's a lot of stuff on the web about it but finding
the info you want is not easy.

I have explored further and found that to enable the spellchecker you need
to download a language module from the web.  Did this via the Wizard menu
as directed and the dictionary is now marked as available but doesn't show
in the writing aids window under language modules - and the spell checker
still doesn't work. Any ideas - I spent nearly six hours on various aspects
of this machine intent on evaluating it for use in our service:  Four hours
trying to get the spellchecker to work seems a bit excessive.  Have also
loaned one to a dyslexic lad, but without a spellchecker it isn't much use
to him!

Has anyone had a mini-book, done this and got the spellchecker to work?  Or
got experience with the speelchecker in Open Office on other platforms?

Apart from this one glitch with both evaluation machines all the responses
have been extremely positive.

Jeremy Beckett
SEN ICT Consultant Teacher
Inclusion Support Service
Nottinghamshire LA0115 963 4895

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