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Openoffice dictionary is missing

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Jonno (aidplus-optusnet) said : 		#1

The rpoble is I set it for Australian english but it cant be changed or seen on my system.
I have to spell everything correctly, as nothing is highlighted.

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Jonno (aidplus-optusnet) said : 		#2

Tried installing myspell but it doesnt seem t owork either.
I may remove the openoffice and reinstall.
I also have abi office installed but it doesnt work. I amy remove all and reinstal one at a time.

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Josh (theformerprophet) said : 		#3

If I am understanding correctly, you have set the language to be Australian English inside of OpenOffice.org. However, when you type you are not seeing spelling errors underlined? If so, make sure that Auto Spellcheck is toggled on. To do this, you will need to click on the icon reading ABC that has a red line underneath it. It is located just below "Window" on the "File, Edit, View" Toolbar.

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Best Jonno (aidplus-optusnet) said : 		#4

I reinstalled the o/s again, and this seems to have fixed it. I am a newby with ubuntu. so Dont know what i did wrong, but whatever, its my fault for not undertanding this yet.
Thank you for your reply....

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long (nguyen-k-long) said : 		#5

Hi there,

I had similar problem before. I installed openoffice 2 in Windows XP Professional SP2. And openoffice does not has an australian dictionary installed as the default.

The solution is I had to manually installed the australian dictionary. You can download the dictionary from here:
http://www.justlocal.com.au/clients/oooau/
The installation instruction is there too.

I hope this helps.

If you want to installed the aus dictionary for the portable version of openoffice. The instruction is the same except for the folder location. For portable openoffice, put the dictionary files to:
OpenOfficePortable\App\openoffice\share\dict\ooo

Note:
OpenOfficePortable - is the folder where all the executable files are.

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Jonno (aidplus-optusnet) said : 		#6

THanks it did. :-)

long wrote:
> Your question #8635 on openoffice.org in ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org/+question/8635
>
> long posted a new comment:
> Hi there,
>
> I had similar problem before. I installed openoffice 2 in Windows XP
> Professional SP2. And openoffice does not has an australian dictionary
> installed as the default.
>
> The solution is I had to manually installed the australian dictionary. You can download the dictionary from here:
> http://www.justlocal.com.au/clients/oooau/
> The installation instruction is there too.
>
> I hope this helps.
>
> If you want to installed the aus dictionary for the portable version of openoffice. The instruction is the same except for the folder location. For portable openoffice, put the dictionary files to:
> OpenOfficePortable\App\openoffice\share\dict\ooo
>
> Note:
> OpenOfficePortable - is the folder where all the executable files are.
>
>