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* Open file format - it uses [XML] so you will never be in the situation where you have old documents but can't extract any information out of it.
* Version 1.1 is much improved over version 1.0, especially in terms of start-up time.
[OpenOffice.org] is included on [TheOpenCD], which is an easy way for windows users to try this great OpenSource software without having to commit to a large change.
+
+----
+!!Installing and Setting up NewZealand English Dictionary
+
+By default, OpenOffice includes support for English (US), and unfortunately none of the add-on language installers supports English (New Zealand). So, here is one way
+to manually get support for it. The following instructions will change the configuration globally, and may require administrator privileges.
+
+__1.__ OpenOffice uses "myspell" dictionaries. Download the dictionary .zip file for en_NZ from
+[their ftp site|
+http://ftp.services.openoffice.org/pub/OpenOffice.org/contrib/dictionaries/en_NZ.zip]
+. (This is based on the en_GB (Great Britain) dictionary but updated with NZ placenames, etc). It is about 220kB in size.
+
+__2.__ Unzip this .zip file into an appropriate directory. On a Debian Unstable machine, OpenOffice looks for dictionaries in /usr/lib/openoffice/share/dict/ooo, but that is a symlink to /usr/share/myspell/dicts.
+ cd /usr/lib/openoffice/share/dict/ooo && unzip /path/to/en_NZ.zip
+This should give you files named "en_NZ.aff" and "en_NZ.dic".
+On windows, it will be whereever you installed it to, most likely something like
+C:\Program Files\OpenOffice.org1.1.2\share\dict\ooo.
+
+__3.__ In the dictionaries directory above, edit the file "dictionary.lst" and add a line that says
+ DICT en NZ en_NZ
+Now, the next time you start OpenOffice, you should be able to set the language to English (New Zealand)
+and see a little dictionary icon next to it. If you are using the OpenOffice quick start or something
+that keeps it in memory, you will need to
+completely close down OpenOffice first.
+
+__4.__ To get the thesaurus and hyphenation working as well, you can use the
+files provided by other variants of English. Eg if you have support for en_US thesaurus (install the
+"openoffice.org-thesaurus-en-us" package in Debian, or
+[download it|http://ftp.services.openoffice.org/pub/OpenOffice.org/contrib/dictionaries/thes_en_US.zip])
+and the en_GB hyphenation support ("openoffice.org-hyphenation-en-gb" in Debian, or
+[download it|http://ftp.services.openoffice.org/pub/OpenOffice.org/contrib/dictionaries/hyph_en_GB.zip])
+then you can add:
+ THES en NZ th_en_US
+ HYPH en NZ hyph_en_GB
+to the "dictionary.lst" file as above.
+
+More verbose instructions for manually installing dictionaries under linux are
+available [here|http://homepage.ntlworld.com/garryknight/linux/oodict.html].
