On Sat, 2006-03-25 at 11:42 +0000, CPHennessy wrote: > On Fri March 24 2006 08:13, + Dawie Verwey - GMail wrote: > > [ MODERATED ] *********************** > > I have an AFRIKAANS (*south african native european language close to > > dutch) dictiuonary for MS office. Is there anyway I can import it into > > openoffice - and if possible on both pc and mac. The dictionary i got is > > for pc. > I do not think that it is possible to use MSOffice dictionaries in OOo.
Depends. See if http://documentation.openoffice.org/HOW_TO/word_processing/Howto_import_user_dictionaries.pdf helps. > > > Any ideas or does this need some serious coding? > Possibly have a look at the MSOffice VBA resources as they may explain how > you > can do things (like exporting) an MSOffice dictionary. See http://documentation.openoffice.org/HOW_TO/ for cross references and other macro docs. > > Also note that you should probably have the relevant dictionaries already > available to you in File -> Wizard -> Install Dictionary. > > Please reply to [email protected] only -- 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]
