Peter wrote:
hello I just downloaded openoffice and tryed to use it buit it doesn't have a dictionare can you please help me with this to fix this thanks
Various dictionaries come with OpenOffice.org and there are many more available on line. To see what dictionaries are installed go to Tools -> Options... -> Language Settings -> Writing Aids, mouse-press "Edit", and see what languages appear in the "Language" drop down list and see whether or not a spell check dictionary, a hyphenation dictionary, and a thesaurus are actually installed for each language that appears.
Your email address indicates New Zealand origin, and I suspect your problem is that you have set your default language within OpenOffice.org to English (New Zealand) which is fine. However English (New Zealand) dictionaries are not included by default in the English download packaged and so OpenOffice.org is now unable to spell check your text.
To obtain and install any available spell check dictionary, hyphenation dictionary, or thesaurus use File -> Wizards -> Install new dictionaries. These include English (New Zealand) versions.
In OpenOffice.org, language is an attribute of text and can be set for a current text selection through Format -> Character -> Font and for each particular paragraph style and character style by accessing the Stylist by pressing F11, selecting a style, right-clicking, selecting "Modify", and then selecting the "Font" tab and changing the language as you wish.
This allows you to have, for example, most of your text set as English (New Zealand), but sections quoted from U.S. sources as English (USA). Then spell checking will use the English (New Zealand) dictionary for text marked as English (New Zealand), the English (USA) dictionary for text marked as English (USA), and so forth for other variations of English and for other languages and their variations, if you have a spell checking dictionary installed for that language.
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