Hi Brian
You finished with: "I trust this helps" - sorry, I must be really thick,
because it actually does not help, but thanks for trying.
I am using Windows XP as my OS
I found "standard.dic" in C:\Documents and Settings\James\Application
Data\OpenOffice.org2\user\wordbook by doing a Search of my whole hard disk,
and another copy in: C:\Documents and Settings\James\Application
Data\OpenOffice.org\3\user\wordbook
When I use M$ Wordpad to open each of these dictionaries it seems that the
OOo3 version is a copy of the OOo2 one, and each has the same personal words
among the entries, so it seems that my Standard.dic has carried over, like
yours did.
My problem is that when I go to:
Tools > Options > Language Settings > Writing Aids > Hunspell SpellChecker >
Edit
The default dictionary is English(South Africa)
There is no English(Australia) dictionary to select
If I change to English(UK), it will not accept it
Under Tools > Options > Language Settings > Languages
the Locale setting is English (Australia)
as is the Default currency and default languages for documents.
These settings have obviously been inherited from OOo2.4, and probably have
something to do with the English(UK) spell checker not being accepted.
The net result of all of this is that, in Writer, I have no dictionary at
all, of any nationality, and my spellchecker races through the document
without doing anything. If I want to use Writer then I have to copy and
paste my document into M$ Word to spell check it, which is less than ideal.
I used to have an Australian Dictionary in OOo2.4, now I have none, and
cannot even install the UK English one, and, in accordance with Murphy's
Law, I am so busy at the moment that I do not have time to research and play
with it any further, so it looks like I will have to go back to M$ Word
until the Christmas break, just to keep on top of my work load. All
previous upgrades have been a dream - this one is a bit of a disaster. You
don't realise how much you depend on your spellchecker until you don't have
one.
Many thanks for your interest, and for trying to help.
Kind regards,
James
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Barker" <b.m.bar...@btinternet.com>
To: <users@openoffice.org>
Sent: Monday, December 15, 2008 3:35 PM
Subject: Re: [users] Dict file in OOo 3.0.?
At 10:15 15/12/2008 +0900, James Elliott wrote:
I understand that I can download an Australian dictionary, but I am at a
loss as to how to include all the additional words I have added over the
years.
My added words carried over easily when I upgraded from 2.4.1 to 3.0 for
Windows XP, though I forget the exact process. A copy of standard.dic has
appeared in the correct new folder. I do have a note that the first time
I ran 3.0 there was an option to "Transfer personal data": this was ticked
by default.
But if all else fails there is a crude workaround:
o Open your existing standard.dic file (is that where your words are?) in
Writer (or open it in a plain-text editor and copy and paste the material
into a Writer document).
o If necessary, use Writer's Find & Replace to remove spurious characters
and leave a clean list of words - though you may not need to do this.
o Now run the spelling checker, selecting Add for each rejected word that
you still want to have in your dictionary.
o Discard the document.
I trust this helps.
Brian Barker
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