Openoffice3 and aspell

[Adam Vande More]

On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 1:41 AM, Gary Kline <kline at thought.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 01, 2010 at 08:00:28PM -0800, Neil Short wrote:
> >
> >
> > --- On Fri, 1/1/10, Adam Vande More <amvandemore at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > From: Adam Vande More <amvandemore at gmail.com>
> > > Subject: Re: Openoffice3 and aspell
> > > To: "Neil Short" <neshort at yahoo.com>
> > > Date: Friday, January 1, 2010, 7:27 PM
> > > On Fri, Jan 1,
> > > 2010 at 5:58 PM, Neil Short <neshort at yahoo.com>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > An extension?
> > >
> > > Mine is called American English Spell Checking 1.0
> > >
> > > --
> > > Adam Vande More
> > >
> > >
> > Does it include a thesaurus? I found a spell checking extension; but it
> doesn't include a thesaurus. There are some thesaurus dictionaries; but they
> include crummy instructions on how to install them. Weird that in previous
> installations all this stuff was automatically configured by the ports tree.
> > Thank you for your communications.
> >
> > -Neil
> >
>
>
>         The main reason I upgraded to OOo-311 was to have a functional
>        spellchecker.  I can't find any, even tho but clicking around I
>        found ``en_US.oxt'' which is a zip file.  The HElp file does not
>        jibe with what's there in the File -> Wizards ... .   Anyway, Adam,
>        the extension you listed turns out to be the file I downloaded.
>
>        How-to install the thing and get it working!?
>
>        gary
>

Tools > Extension Manager > Add

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Adam Vande More