File → Wizards… → Install new dictionaries Follow the instructions.
Some people say that the OpenOffice.org Quickstarter must be closed when installing dictionaries, I don't know because I always have it closed anyway. About removing dictionaries, take a look in the following folder: C:\Program Files\OpenOffice.org\share\dict\ooo There is a file called dictionary.lst. Take a backup of it in case you screw it up, then open it with Writer or WordPad or any other text editor, why not Emacs? The file contains a "List of All Dictionaries to be Loaded by OpenOffice". You can probably find the names of your Spanish dictionaries here. You will also find the names if the other dictionaries that you don't need. You can type a # at the beginning of each line that represents a dictionary you don't want, or you can completely delete the line. I would type the # first, and if everything still works and those unwanted dictionaries are gone, remove the lines, or just let them remain there. Now close OpenOffice.org (if it was running) and start it again. Does it work? I tried this while I was typing this, and it worked for me. I typed a # in front of everything that wasn't English (UK and US) and Swedish, and now, at "Tools → Options… → Language Settings → Writing Aids → Available language modules → Edit… → Language" I can only find three languages: English (UK), English (USA) and Swedish (Sweden)! Unfortunately there's no thesaurus for Swedish yet, but I would be surprised if there isn't one for Spanish to download, using that Wizard I mentioned above. Funny, by the way, that Italian seems to be installed by default, but not Spanish, which I think is the second most common language - 330 000 000 speakers in the world, the year was 2001 - in the world (after Chinese - 885 000 000 speakers for the most common Chinese language; English had about 322 000 000 speakers in the world at that time). Note that there are many languages in China, still the most common tops the list… However, I don't think this list include speakers who have, let's say English, as their second language and things like that, it's probably only a list of people's main languages. By the way, Swedish can be found at 89th place, right after Bulgarian… Yes, I know, nobody cares. Good luck with your dictionaries! Johnny Andersson
