Harold Fuchs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in 
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> The dictionaries are in C:\Program Files\OpenOffice.org 
> 2.x\share\dict\ooo for version 2.x of OO. Their names all have a ".dic" 
> extension. I suppose that if you really want to you could delete some of 
> them. But why?  OpenOffice will only ever consult the ones it needs at 
> spell-check time. For a single language document that's just one 
> dictionary; even if your document has checkable text in 5 languages OO 
> will still only consult 5 dictionaries. If you don't write German OO 
> won't reference the German dictionaries. I doubt having more 
> dictionaries will slow down the operation of the software; I'd be 
> interested to know why you think it will. True, they take up disk space; 
> if that's an issue for you then ...
> 
> 

My experience is that multiple dictionaries do slow down OOo, sometimes to 
the point of unusability if the dictionary.lst file is not edited. 

The only way to get it to check a document in multimple languages seems to 
be to check the option to check in all languages, and, when that happens, 
it seems to check all the languages in the dictionary.list. I know this is 
stupid. But I have noticed large speed gains when I cut back to the two 
languages I actually use, though this is -- obviously -- more noticeable on 
long files. 


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Andrew Brown
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