libreoffice calc spellcheck?

[Colin Law]

On 3 February 2016 at 14:42, Dave Howorth <dhoworth at mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> I'm using LibreOffice 3.5.7.2 on Ubuntu 12.04.5. I just opened a spreadsheet
> and it appears to have spellchecking enabled (i.e. there is red underlining
> on some text). I want to turn spellchecking off but when I go to the Tools
> menu, the first item 'Spell check...' is greyed out.
>
> I can't see anything relevant in Help. Any ideas?

I have not got 12.04 any more, but one thing to check is whether the
option is shown if you start a new file.  That will tell you whether
it is specific to that file.

Is the file read-only by any chance?

Colin