[plug] Open Office in Local Government

[James Elliott]

Thanks for the advice on Open Office Dictionaries, Craig.

Here is another one for you, and anyone else who would like to comment.

The local Shire computer network administrator just asked me for a number of
floppy disk drives and also a copy of Open Office 1.0   If OO lives up to my
praiseworthy description of it, he will consider changing over to it.  He
has one concern - saving in a format that cannot be read by other Shire
offices using MS Word.  I explained that his staff can Save As ... Word XP,
2000, 97 ...etc. etc. and that OO can read any other format.

He had one question I could not answer: "Can you set Open Office Write to
default to Word format when saving?".  If the girls working for the Shire
have to remember to change from OO to Word format every time they save,
obviously someone is going to forget and electronically send an
unintelligible document to Perth.

Cant you set "Save" defaults?

I said I would get back to him after consulting with the experts on PLUG.

Kind regards,

James Elliott
Ravensthorpe Computers
ABN 34 305 232 710
Tel:   08 9838 1043
Fax:  08 9838 1049
Cell:  0428 39 6052
E-mail:  James.Elliott at wn.com.au
Australia Post:
PO Box 228, Ravensthorpe WA 6346
----- Original Message -----
From: "Craig Ringer" <craig at postnewspapers.com.au>
To: <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 11:37 AM
Subject: Re: [plug] Open Office


> > I love my OO but got sick of the American spell checker, so went in to
> > editing options and changed the language for documents to English
> > (Australian).  Then I went back to OO Write and deliberately misspelled
a
> > few words, only small errors, and all of the were given the thumbs up OK
by
> > Tools/Spell check.
>
> You need to fetch the appropriate dictionaries. Currently there's only
> en_GB to my (limited) knowledge, and that must be munged a bit to get it
> to work with the en_AU locale.
>
> First, fetch the OO.o en_GB dictionary from www.openoffice.org:
>
> http://whiteboard.openoffice.org/lingucomponent/download_dictionary.html
>
> Grab the en_GB dictionary from the above page, or:
>
> http://dict.progbits.com/en_GB.zip
>
> Unzip it into:
>
> OpenOffice.org1.0/user/wordbook
>
> then edit dictionary.lst and append these _two_ lines (not just the
> first one as per the readme).
>
> DICT en GB en_GB
> DICT en AU en_GB
>
> This will alias the en_GB dictionary you've just installed to be used
> for en_AU as well. Ugly but I don't know of an en_AU OO.o dictionary
> yet. This way you can set everything to en_AU and OO.o doesn't complain
> like it will otherwise. No need to suffer the en_GB locale for your
> entire system environment or hack the soffice script to specifically set
> en_GB first - just work as normal :-)
>
> --
> Craig Ringer
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