[plug] Spellchecking in OpenOffice

[Gavin Chester]

On Wed, 2007-05-30 at 22:51 +0800, Alex Polglaze wrote:
> 
> 
> Jonathan Young wrote: 
> > That makes sense.  Silly question then - where's the wizard??
> Click on FILE (top left)
> Then WIZARD (4th one down)
> Then the Dictionary is the second last option on the list.
> 
> After you have done this, go back to TOOLS and LANGUAGES etc. Then you
> will see the little "ABC and tick" next to the Eng(AUSTRALIAN) and you
> can select it.
> 
> Then it will work.

Yes and no :-/ My further reading on this topic showed exactly what
you're talking about, Alex however my "Novell-ised" version of OO.o on
suse doesn't have the wizard as talked about. Instead I found that there
is no _official_ "en-AU" dictionary (maybe I can't be too adamant about
that because someone may disagree) and you get it from a 3rd party
maintainer. Certainly, when I search language packs it only lists
"en-US" and "en-GB" - no others. Info about the AU dictionary is given
on the OO.o wiki:  
<http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Dictionaries#English_.28AU.2CCA.2CGB.2CNZ.2CUS.2CZA.29>
and points to the dictionary maintainer's page here:
<http://www.justlocal.com.au/clients/oooau/>
his page also includes specific instructions for installing on XP
(Johnathon to note). Also given are Aussie place names, Aussie
thesaurus, etc.

Maybe going down that path is the 'manual' way to do it and the wizard
taps into the same source? I can't say, but it gives another option to
consider.

Two final points: 1/ if you already had en-GB chosen as default and you
had no further joy with en-US you may need to check that you have _any_
dictionaries installed because it should have partly worked ;-); and, 2/
failing that, I found that you also need to choose the _available_
dictionary in all parts of OO.o, namely spell-check, thesaurus,
hyphenation, etc. One area that eluded me until today was in 'Tools >
AutoCorrect'. Suddenly, everything autocorrects now I have the right
language setting ;-)

Gavin