On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 22:43 -0700, Trevor Farlow wrote: > On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 22:04 -0700, Rodney R wrote: > > > >>Craig, usually the dictionary file is a plain text file with each word on a > >>separate line. There is such a file in the OOo install directory under > >>share\dict\ooo. I am not recommending you remove any words, and I cannot > >>guess what may happen if you do, I am simply pointing out information you > >>may not have. > >> > >>Rodney > > That's right, Craig. Specifically, the dictionary is a file called > en_US.dic and the thesaurus files are th_en_US_v2.dat and > th_en_US_v2.idx. They are all plain text files. > > A primitive solution would be to open them in a text editor and use the > editor's search tool to find every occurence of every word you want to > remove. Then remove them, but be careful that you don't leave any extra > vertical bars (they seem to delineate between words/phrases), and don't > delete any of those that need to remain. > > Notepad might not be able to handle these huge files - I'd probably do > it in Writer, but be careful that you save them only as plain vanilla > text files when you're done.
Thanks, Trevor. I have been trying to get confirmation of this info via [email protected] but no one has answered in this concise format. Now I can try a script. -- PLEASE KEEP MESSAGES ON THE LIST. OpenOffice.org Documentation Co-Lead http://documentation.openoffice.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
