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------- Additional comments from [email protected] Thu Sep 16 21:06:39 
+0000 2010 -------
In the default installation for 3.2, the UK thesaurus is not available (grey on
the menu).  Switching the page to USA enables the Thesaurus but this is
impractical for normal use as this then gives USA spellings and switching from
one to another whilst editing is not practical.

I've downloaded the later "dict-bundle.oxt" which when installed instead of the
default, displays the same issue - so I suspect the problem is upstream on both
the installation and the dictionary builds.  

However, I think there's a workaround.  If you open the "dict-bundle.oxt" file
as a zip file (7zip will do this easily) you'll see there aren't UK thesaurus
files "th_en_GB_v2.dat" or "th_en_GB_v2.idx" included (I think there should be).
You can of course copy the USA ones out rename them and then add them back into
the zip file.  You will also need to extract the "dictionaries.xcu" file and
edit it (it's an xml file) - copy the USA thesaurus node and re-insert as a GB
thesaurus node, i.e. effectively add this bit just before the US equivalent;

       <node oor:name="ThesDic_en-GB" oor:op="fuse">
            <prop oor:name="Locations" oor:type="oor:string-list">
                <value>%origin%/th_en_GB_v2.dat %origin%/th_en_GB_v2.idx</value>
            </prop>
            <prop oor:name="Format" oor:type="xs:string">
                <value>DICT_THES</value>
            </prop>
            <prop oor:name="Locales" oor:type="oor:string-list">
                <value>en-GB</value>
            </prop>
        </node>

Then replace the original dictionaries.xcu with the one you've just changed back
in the oxt (zip) file too.  At this point you;ve rebult the oxt file with a new
"dictionaries.xcu" and two new thesaurus .dat and .idx files.  Now you can
double-click it to install it (assuming oOO is closed).  Initially it doesn't
appear to work (like the menu still displays it's previous state) but I found if
you then go into the Tools->Options->Language Settings->Writing Aids and disable
the "OpenOffice.org New Thesaurus" and re-enable it again it is then magically
enabled on the Tools->Langauge->Thesaurus/CTRL-F7 menu option.

Hope this works for you.

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