Open Office 3 was released this week. I have long appreciated the German spell checking in OOo2, and for almost all word processing tasks, have found Open Office Writer to be the match of Microsoft Word.

However, in the English version of OOo3, German spell checking does not work 'out of the box'. While there are dictionary extensions available online, I was looking for an easy solution to recommend.

The German version of OOo3 does spell check both German and English texts. Open Office is free software.