2007/7/30, jonathon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > fam.sachs wrote: > > I have Microsoft office word but cannot carry out the orthographic check in > > French and german. > > 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 * DictInstall is obsolete, and works only on Windows.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
The above information is for using spellcheck on OpenOffice.org (www.openoffice.org) OOo can read, edit and save as MS Word. If you need MS products, contact the MS website... HTH -- Guy using dutch OOo 2.2 RC 4 on a iMac Intel DualCore Tiger and dutch OOo 2.2 RC 4 on a G4 PPC Powerbook Tiger -- please reply only to [email protected] -- Dodoes can't afford to have headaches --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
