On Sat, 2006-05-27 at 16:34 +1000, Greg Smith wrote: > I am using openOffice.org2.0 and cannot active the thesaurus. Is there > a Thesaurus and if yes how do I activate / install it?
Yes. The following is taken from a previous post by another list subscriber. While it refers to dictionaries, follow it through and you will see it's relevance to a Thesaurus. During the process you will see reference to an Australian Thesaurus, which is in fact a US Thesaurus, but this should cause you very little difficulty. <Q> To obtain the relevant dictionaries, go to File -> Wizards -> Install new dictionaries and download the ones you want. To set the default language for your installation, go to Tools -> Options -> Language Settings / Languages and set the default for all your documents. If there is a dictionary for your selection, there will be a tick mark against it. It is important to remember that language is an attribute of the text of a document, and can be set differently in different parts of the same document. This allows foreign language quotes to be separately checked against the appropriate dictionary. To set the default for a document that is different from the default setting for all other documents, when you have opened the document (or started a new one) go to the Default style and change it there. F11 (or Format -> Styles and Formatting) brings up the style list. Right click on Default (or the root style for your document) go to Modify -> Font tab where you can set the language for this style and will be carried down to other styles derived from it unless otherwise changed. To change the language for a piece of text, highlight the text and go to Format -> Character -> Font tab (or right click -> Character -> Font) where you can set the language for just that portion of text. </Q> Hope this helps. Dave -- This is a mailing list which exists to support users of OpenOffice.org All answers are given by other users who volunteer their time. If you are not subscribed to this mailing list you may not see all the replies to your query. Please reply to [email protected] only and include some indication that you are not subscribed to this list. (eg. "I am not subscribed to this list, please cc me.") For on-line support see: http://support.openoffice.org/index.html For a knowledge base see: http://mindmeld.cybersite.com.au/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
