On Saturday 16 April 2005 06:16 am, Thomas Blasejewicz wrote:
> Ladies and Gentlemen
> The other day I learned about Open Office through a mailing list.
> Since I do not like (hate) Microsoft Office, yet have to use it 
for my job,
> I would really like to try Open Office.

Reccomend with all my heart that you download OOo114 and wait for 
the announcement that OOo2 stable is released.  

How can I safoy this, so that you don't think I'm disparaging 
OpenOffice.org version 2?   

OOo2 doesn't exist yet.  It is a beta. 

Currently all beta2s are not ready for daily use.  However, if you 
wish to persist, then realize that part of the cost of running beta 
software is to report problems to the issuezilla and not to write 
asking how to do something in OOo2.  It is getting better but there 
are still demons in it.  

OOo2 is not a release.  It is beta.  It may eat your dog. 
 
> Downloaded several files already and installed (as a test) Version 
2 (beta
> version).
> Also downloaded several dictionary files.
> Yet, the folder "dictinstaller" contains only 3 gif images, but no 
exe file.
> the link found on the website: http://www.ooodocs.org/dictinstall/
> does not lead anywhere (dnserror)
> 
> Question:
> How/where do I get the dictionary installer?�

It is incorporated into OOo114 in the menu:  
        File--AutoPilot--InstallNewDictionaries
You can use it at least 2 ways, off-line if you have previously 
downloaded the DictPack for the languages you need, from here:
http://lingucomponent.openoffice.org/download_dictionary.html
; 
or while on-line, it will find them and install the dictionaries you 
choose.  On-line is probably the simplest and least error prone. 

There is a bug with some of the OOo2betas, so this menu entry 
doesn't always work. You can still activate the macro manually but 
then you need to go looking in the directories where you installed 
OOo. 

> Do I need that for Version 2 (it says it works only for Version 1)
> If not, how do I install the dictionaries?
> Without dictionaries the "Writer" would be close to useless.

Well, just not as useful as it could be.  

regards,
Richard.

> Thank you in advance for your assistance.
> Thomas Blasejewicz


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