Thanks Russ.
I can extract the words residing in the MS Custom Word file. As they are
unformatted (plain text), I could, presumably, add them to an 00o special
dictionary if I had the 00o path to same. Have you tried that approach?
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From: "Russell Butler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Sunday, October 23, 2005 7:26 PM
Subject: Re: Migration Of MS Word Custom Dic Into Writer
Rich wrote:
I have been building my MS Word "Custom" dictionary (Application
Data/Microsoft/Proof/Custom) for 10 years, and now that I have downloaded
Writer ver. 2, I want to import it into Writer.
How can I import the entire file in one action (too long to do it
word-by-word). I know how to create a dictionary in Writer, but I don't
know
how to import an entire file into it.
If I can't, that is a showstopper, as the Custom dictionary contains
thousands of words and is critical to my work.
I posted this yesterday but did not receive a reply.
Hi Rich
I have been playing around with specialised dictionaries for a year or
so. Perhaps the best I can do is to point you to a bug I reported at
http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=52103
This has a "sort-of" work-around for specialist dictionaries, though I
have tried it only on Linux. This is a definite regression from the
1.1.x series.
Seems there is not a lot of interest as I have raised it on the mailing
list from time to time, but maybe if you feel like adding a vote we may
stimulate some activity.
HTH
Russell
PS Sorry for CC, but my posts to gmane do not seem to be getting through.
R
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