[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 137437] New: Writer, spell check: a boggling offer to 'continue' (among a welter of related problems)

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=137437

            Bug ID: 137437
           Summary: Writer, spell check: a boggling offer to 'continue'
                    (among a welter of related problems)
           Product: LibreOffice
           Version: 6.4.6.2 release
          Hardware: All
                OS: Linux (All)
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: medium
         Component: Writer
          Assignee: libreoffice-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
          Reporter: nicholas_j at posteo.net

Description:
In Writer, I see the spell check window, showing pretty much nothing, overlaid
by a window containing the boggling question, 'Continue checking at the
beginning of the document?'

In this report I specify the OS as 'Linux' because that is the only OS on which
I have experienced the problem - but I use Writer only only on Linux.)

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Enter a paragraph or two of text containing nothing the spell check will
flag.
2. Place the caret at the end of that text and thus at the end of the document.
3. Press F7

Actual Results:
I see the spell check window, showing pretty much nothing, overlaid by a window
containing the question, 'Continue checking at the beginning of the document?'

I will attach a screenshot if I can see how to.

Expected Results:
Either (1) Writer should check the whole text, or, if for some reason you think
it better to check only from the caret, then (2) Writer should make it clear to
the user that no spelling errors were found from *the current point in the
document onwards.*

Do not: (i) show the user a window that seems to convey nothing; (ii) overlay
the window of *i* with another window so the user cannot properly see the first
window anyway; (iii) ask a question that the user will not understand. Also -
while I am at it - what is the point of not closing the (main) spell check
window, once the spell check is (in one way or another) complete? Further,
seeing, 'Text language: none' confuses as well, especially since, for some
reason, that string does not appear until one dismisses any of the small
'question' windows.


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No



Additional Info:
In recent versions of Microsoft Word, the spell check has become horrible. Yet,
even today's Word does a better job in the situation at issue than does Writer.
So, for a more detailed idea of how to handle the matter better, see Word.

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