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#1 2008-10-11 02:28:19
- caecusum
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OpenOffice 3.0 English Spellchecker Missing?
Pardon me if I'm being an idiot here, but I can't seem to find a way to install a US English dictionary extension in OO3. According to the wiki the necessary files were included in the beta releases, but don't seem to be in the stable version. I also checked on the database of extensions opened by the extension manager and can't find anything, implying that maybe it should have been included.
Am I just missing something obvious?
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#2 2008-10-11 02:50:25
- Allan
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Re: OpenOffice 3.0 English Spellchecker Missing?
I am trying to figure this out too.... There are dictionary extensions in /opt/openoffice/share/extension/install. I guess we need to install the right one from the extension manager. But even then I still get no spell-checking so I am missing something too.
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#3 2008-10-11 02:59:59
- ozar
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Re: OpenOffice 3.0 English Spellchecker Missing?
Yep, no spell checking on my copy, either.
Not only that, OpenOffice is getting to be a bit on the porky side... oink-oink! I'm thinking about moving to AbiWord.
Not sure yet, though.
oz
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#4 2008-10-11 03:04:53
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Re: OpenOffice 3.0 English Spellchecker Missing?
I just installed the English extension from "/opt/openoffice/share/extension/install" with the OOo extension manager. Auto spell checking didn't come up immediately but after clicking around a bit the 'your retarded and this word is spelled wrong' line under the words came up. And it all worked fine.
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#5 2008-10-11 03:08:36
- caecusum
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Re: OpenOffice 3.0 English Spellchecker Missing?
Great, thanks. Installing dict-en.oxt worked for me.
Last edited by caecusum (2008-10-11 03:11:17)
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#6 2008-10-11 03:09:54
- Allan
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Re: OpenOffice 3.0 English Spellchecker Missing?
Can you define "clicking around for a bit" slightly better please.... 
Found out my problem. en_AU is not in the en dictionary pack. Changing the language to en_US fixed it.
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#7 2008-10-11 17:52:27
- sfabius
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Re: OpenOffice 3.0 English Spellchecker Missing?
I had to quit and restart OOo in order for the dictionary to work.
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#8 2008-10-11 18:39:50
- FLCLFan
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Re: OpenOffice 3.0 English Spellchecker Missing?
Can you define "clicking around for a bit" slightly better please....
Found out my problem. en_AU is not in the en dictionary pack. Changing the language to en_US fixed it.
Clicking around meaning doing a few manual spell checks and restarting OOo.
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