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Newer page: version 12 Last edited on Wednesday, March 29, 2006 10:27:06 am by DanTorop Revert
Older page: version 11 Last edited on Friday, February 24, 2006 3:15:21 pm by IanMcDonald Revert
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 then you can add: 
  THES en NZ th_en_US 
  HYPH en NZ hyph_en_GB 
 to the "dictionary.lst" file as above. 
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+Alternately, for OpenOffice.org >= 1.1.1, go to "File -> Wizards -> Install new dictionary" to use the OOoDic Autopilot. Click on "English", press the "Start DicOOo" button, and use the dialog to download any needed dictionaries, hyphenations, or thesauri. Note that you don't need root privileges (useful if you are the only OpenOffice user on your machine) or to mess with symlinks or dictionary.lst. The default behavior is to install in the current user's .openoffice/1.1.1/user/wordbook or .openoffice.org2/user/wordbook (depending on OpenOffice version) directory.  
  
 More verbose instructions for manually installing dictionaries under linux are 
 available [here|http://homepage.ntlworld.com/garryknight/linux/oodict.html]. 
  
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