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[Roman Y]

Hi guys I have a bit of problem with dictionaries in open office, need spell checking to make it easy for myself writing reports, but I can't figure out how to add dictionaries to OpenOffice Word process that arn't already there... I went to the "get dictionaries on-line" in the app itself, got the dictionary I needed downloaded it (in .oxt file) and what do I do now? where do files and directories that are in it go, how do I update the wordprocessor e.t.c?

[Alexander]

According to the OpenOffice wiki (i.e. Dictionaries - OpenOffice.org Wiki)
"To install a new dictionary in Vanilla OpenOffice.org 2.x, call "File -> Wizards -> Install new dictionaries" in OpenOffice.org. Then exit and re-start OpenOffice.org, including the Quickstarter (if used)."

[Roman Y]

Yeah, but (I don't know maybe there is some other version or something) there was no such option in file -> wizards so I guess it has to be done from the terminal somehow...

[Alexander]

I believe I dug up the solution, go to Tools > Extension Manager, from there you should be able to open up an oxt file and install it. Remember to restart all OpenOffice processes to see its effects.

[Roman Y]

aha... so it's a file that can be installed?! I'm fairly new to Linux so naturally if an .oxt file opened a directory I assumed that it was something equal to .rar in windows.

thanks I'll try it out as soon as I'll be working in Linux))

[Alexander]

You are correct in that it is an archive file, but it is not meant to be opened by you (only OpenOffice), Linux only really uses common archive formats such as .tar.gz, .gz, .bz2, .zip, .x just so you know.

[Roman Y]

Nullw0rm said:

I believe I dug up the solution, go to Tools > Extension Manager, from there you should be able to open up an oxt file and install it. Remember to restart all OpenOffice processes to see its effects.

Yeah that worked! Thank you!