Thanks Keith and God bless
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From: "Keith Bates" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 9:59 AM
Subject: [users] Re: [openoffice] [users] Extensions.?
On Tue, 2009-02-17 at 09:50 +0900, James Elliott - WA Rural Computers
wrote:
I have been using OOo since the beginning, currently runing under Windows
XP, and have noticed that in version 3.0 that we now use "extensions"
for
our dictionaries instead of standalone Dict files as before.
Extensions seem to be an improvement in that one does not have to copy,
in
my case the Australian English dictionary, across every time one installs
a
new version of OOo. When I upgraded from 3.0 to 3.1 just now, and tested
my
spell checker in Writer, it still picked up "color" as a misspelled word
and
suggested "colour". So, that is great, and makes updating OOo a breeze.
For my education, I would be very much obliged if someone in this forum
could explain to me what and "extension" is, how it works, and any
advantages, other than those already described above.
Many thanks, James
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From the OOo extensions site:
"An extension is a third party tool that brings OOo new
functions. This can be done through addons, addins, deployed by
UNO packages. Extensions also covers templates, galleries."
The advantage is that you can choose what additional functions you want
without having the ones you don't want.
Go here to browse some of them:
http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/
A couple of favourites apart from the dictionaries (I use the Aussie one
too), are the PDF editor and the Report Builder for Base.
There are all kinds of offerings there for the different parts of OOo
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God bless you,
Keith Bates
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