Gene Young wrote:
Thomas Lange - Sun Germany - ham02 - Hamburg wrote:
Hi Gene,
Thus the proper solution for a user is to make use of dictionary
extension only.
Regards,
Thomas
That answer totally ignores the fact that many of us ADD words to the
standard dictionary for what ever reason. (I add unusual place and
person names for my genealogy research and technical terms for my
work.) Reloading any of the dictionaries wipes out all the "custom
words" and I have to add them all over again. The purpose of
back-ups is to save this extra work. So the question is still, how
do I back up the standard dictionary so I can save my "custom"
entries? If it is not possible, then it really should be added as a
possibility.
Well, then it is the usual case of confusing to completely unrelated
topics, which are:
- dictionaries pre-installed and/or downloadable
and
- the user-dictionaries which can be editetd by the user via the UI
The 'standard' dictionary is one of the latter and thus what I have said
does not apply to it!
User dictionaries (the writable ones!) are locate in the user-layer of
the installation in the user/wordbook sub-directory. You can make
backups of those by simply copying them.
Thomas
OOo 3.o does not give me the option to add a word to anything but the
standard dictionary. There is no confusing of two unrelated topics. The
question was and still is, how do you back up the standard dictionary so
you can save the added words.
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Gene Young
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Never mind. I have found bits and pieces of the answer in different places and have pieced together
what I believe is the answer to the OP's question.
standard.dic is the default USER dictionary that comes with OOo 3.0.
standard.dic is located in (on Win XP) C:\Documents and Settings\User_Name\Application
Data\OpenOffice.org\3\user\wordbook.
Any user dictionaries added by the user are also located there. Added by Tools > Options > Language
Settings > Writing Aids. They can also be edited there. (ie; correcting a mis-spelled word in the
dictionary, deleting an erroneously entered word, etc.)
To back up these files simply copy them to your back up location. To restore,
copy them back.
Do not assume that what is clearly obvious to you is also common knowledge to the person asking the
question. Some of us are not programmers or experts in the program and need a little extra
information. ;-}
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Gene Young
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