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Wintershade

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From: Croatia

Registered: 2008-02-18

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How to install custom dictionaries for openoffice?

Hello. I'm a user from Croatia, and I do a lot of writing in my mother's tongue. A Croatian spellchecker would be a nice addon for my OpenOffice installation, but there is none on the repository.

Is it possible to install it manually into my OpenOffice installation? I have the .dic and .aff files, is it enough to put those somewhere? If so, where? Is there anything else that should be done apart from that?

Many thanks.

Last edited by Wintershade (2008-04-14 17:37:58)

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berbae

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From: France

Registered: 2007-02-12

Posts: 1,302

Re: How to install custom dictionaries for openoffice?

Open the /opt/openoffice/share/dict/ooo/DicOOo.sxw document in OpenOffice writer and use it to install the dictionary you want. This method should be more secured.
Or copy the .dic and .aff files in the /opt/openoffice/share/dict/ooo/ directory and edit the dictionary.lst file in this directory, according to the format explained in the file.
Restart OpenOffice.
There exists also a dict directory under the ~/.openoffice directory for user dictionaries.

Wintershade

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From: Croatia

Registered: 2008-02-18

Posts: 175

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Re: How to install custom dictionaries for openoffice?

Thank you! The second method worked like a charm.

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