Thanks everyone. The dictionary copying macro is good. It proved the most
useful tool and works fine in v3.
Is it possible to see the macro itself and how it is written (curiosity) or is
it locked into the document?
I found moving the old dictionary files into /applicationdata/... etc did not
work though I did find the other dictionary files sitting there. I don't
understand why and it would be useful to work it out because I DO have a back
up programme, SyncBack which I recommend. But it works by copying files over to
another disc (rather than taking a "ghost" image) and you need to know the
location of the particular things you want to copy so that you can both copy
and restore later.
So maybe there are other files involved too or registry entries or somesuch
(this is uncertain territory for me)
Anyway thanks
Adrian
-----Original Message-----
From: Manfred J. Krause [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 02 November 2008 12:59
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [users] Dictionary backups
... in addition ...
On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 13:15, Manfred J. Krause wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 12:50, Adrian Greeman wrote:
>> [...]
>>
>> For an experiment I removed them again and created new ones inside
>> Writer in /options/language settings/etc
>>
>> These DO appear on spell check. But of course they are empty and I
>> have to start building my dictionaries all over again which is a pain.
>>
>> Secondly I cannot find the place where the dictionary files are stored.
>
> See below ...
>
>> So backing up is impossible
>>
>> I don't want to have to redo these dictionaries all over each time.
>>
>> Any help out there?
>
> You may copy your user-defined dictionaries (*.dic) to ->
> <...Documents_and_Settings\[name]\Application_Data\OpenOffice.org\3\user\wordbook>
... and if that doesn't work ...
[from a former reply:]
... you may also try out ->
OOo Dictionary Importer/Exporter -
Import/Export Text File into/from OOo Dictionary
Author: Russ Phillips
<quote>
This macro has a GUI that makes it simple to import words from a text
file into an OOo dictionary, or to export an OOo dictionary to a text
file for easier editing.
</quote>
Latest release: Version 1.1 (June 21, 2004)
<http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=87718&package_id=114694>
Please set 'Macro Security' to 'Medium' before starting the macro ->
Tools | Options | OpenOffice.org | Security ->
Macro security -> >Macro Security ...< -> [X] Medium
Manfred
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