diff -urN oo_1.0.1_src.orig/officecfg/data/org/openoffice/Office/Linguistic.xcd oo_1.0.1_src/officecfg/data/org/openoffice/Office/Linguistic.xcd
--- oo_1.0.1_src.orig/officecfg/data/org/openoffice/Office/Linguistic.xcd	Tue Sep 17 10:15:19 2002
+++ oo_1.0.1_src/officecfg/data/org/openoffice/Office/Linguistic.xcd	Tue Sep 17 10:17:48 2002
@@ -186,7 +186,7 @@
 					<schema:title>Automatic spellchecking</schema:title>
 					<schema:description>Check spelling while typing.</schema:description>
 				</schema:documentation>
-				<default:data>false</default:data>
+				<default:data>true</default:data>
 			</schema:value>
 			<schema:value cfg:name="IsSpellSpecial" cfg:type="boolean">
 				<!-- OldPath: MiscOptions / SpellOptions -->