I looked in the Wizard, as I was interested in a thesaurus, however, all
I found were dictionaries. Are there Thesauri?
Alf Gates wrote:
Jonathon
Thanks sincerely for your prompt help and background information.
All fixed and working brilliantly.
Greatly appreciated.
Alf
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From: jonathon
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Subject: Re: [users] New user - 2.2
Alf Gates wrote:
> Seems as though I haven't got a dictionary or Thesaurus.
a) Install the appropriate dictionaries, thesauri, and
hyphenation dictionaries.
">File >Wizards >Install new dictionaries" should bring up
the tool for installing dictionaries.
* This tool will automatically check to see if it is the
most current version. If it is not, then it will ask if you
want to update to the current version.
* The user interface for version 1.7 is in 27 languages;
* It lists roughly 120 dictionaries for spell checking;
** There are some ---probably less than a dozen ---
dictionaries for OOo that are not listed in this tool. For
the most part, the unlisted dictionaries are very new, very
specialized, or very large.
* Only install dictionaries etc that you use, and need.
OOo performance can be severely degraded if too many
dictionaries, etc are installed. [My experience is that
performance degradation is noticeable at around 5
dictionaries, and is complete at around 100 dictionaries.
The amount of RAM, and your chip speed will affect the
performance degradation.]
b) Create and use language specific styles;
* For each language that is used, create a set of paragraph,
character, numbering, and page styles. Use those styles when
creating, or editing documents. This way spell checking will
be correctly done. Language specific styles also allow for
transparent grammar checking from within OOo.
* A template that contains the start of language specific
styles can be found at
http://www.esnips.com/web/OOoRelatedThings.
* Uncheck "Spell check in all languages" unless you want
your work to contain spelling errors.
Obsolete stuff:
* DictInstall is obsolete, and works only on Windows. It can
be obtained from http://ooodocs.sourceforge.net/dictinstall/
xan
jonathon
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