{"id":75,"date":"2007-10-24T17:07:26","date_gmt":"2007-10-24T23:07:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/d2.degen.net\/?p=136"},"modified":"2007-10-24T17:07:26","modified_gmt":"2007-10-24T23:07:26","slug":"open-office-%e2%80%9cswitch%e2%80%9d-update-spell-checker-%e2%80%93-not-all-that-and-a-bag-of-chips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.degen.net\/?p=75","title":{"rendered":"Open Office \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Switch\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Update: Spell Checker \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Not all that and a bag of chips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Its month three since I jettisoned Microsoft Word and Excel, and switched to Open Office as my full-time spreadsheet and document editor. And while the experience has been overall very positive, I&#8217;m quite disappointed with the spell checker correction algorithm.<\/p>\n<p>Good spell check has always been a big part of my word-processing needs \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Yes, I&#8217;m a horrific speller \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and the heuristics for the auto-correction is just not on par with Microsoft Word.<\/p>\n<p>Also lacking is the facility for managing custom dictionaries. I was unable to easily port my existing Word compatible dictionary; and by easily I mean the ability to do it in under an hour!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll have more updates on my experiences switching in future posts, but for now I need to mind my spelling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Its month three since I jettisoned Microsoft Word and Excel, and switched to Open Office as my full-time spreadsheet and document editor. And while the experience has been overall very positive, I&#8217;m quite disappointed with the spell checker correction algorithm. Good spell check has always been a big part of my word-processing needs \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Yes, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,9,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-business-industry","category-linuxunix","category-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.degen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.degen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.degen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.degen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.degen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.degen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.degen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.degen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.degen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}