[plug] Open Office

John Knight anarchist_tomato at hotmail.com
Wed Aug 21 23:28:22 WST 2002


Are there British dictionaries available? Can't you just use them if they 
are? There'll only be a few kangaroos etc. missing from it's word database.

>Hi
>
>Are there any Open Office experts out there?
>
>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.
>
>So then I typed in a few strings of letters which made no sense at all - 
>but
>OO once again said there were no spelling mistakes .... well when I say
>"said" it was  by omission - ie it did not find any mistakes.
>
>This was sent from Outlook, using an English(Aust) dictionary - but I would
>like to use OO exclusively, but cannot function without a good spell
>checker.
>
>I would appreciate your comments.
>
>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




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