Spell Check cannot check MS DOC file

When I open MS Doc file, spell check recognizes most words as misspelled. It offers NO correction suggestions (though the document was checked and corrected previously in OpenOffice) -
Is there a way to get rid of the misspelling redline indicators without going through entire document? also, if I type new text in same document, spell check works fine on NEW text.
Any clues please - thanks -

Open the inspector and go to Text > More > Languages, and check what is chosen. I would guess it is different for different parts of the document.
To solve it, select +all text+ in the document and then select the language of your choice.

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