Hi,  
 
This is my issue (lingucomponent). 
  
Did you install the proper en_GB.zip contributed dictionary?  
  
Please check out:  
  
http://whiteboard.openoffice.org/lingucomponent/  
  
And follow the links to spellcheck and the dictionary download  
pages.  
  
There is no en_GB dictioanry that comes as default in OOo due to it  
being licnese incompatible with OOo's LGPL license.  But you can  
easily install your own contributed en_GB dictionary and use it.  
  
Follow the instructions on that website or use one of the new  
automated dictioanry installers that are available.  
  
If you have tried this and it still fails, please send me a listing  
of the files in your user/wordbook/ directory and the file  
dictionary.lst so that I can make sure it looks okay.  
  
Hope this helps,  
  
Kevin  
  

Thanks for your help Kevin. It works fine now.

A few points though...

I have a network installation so I had to install the dictionary on
the server directory and the local directory. Once I'd made the
changes to dictionary.lst in both places the en_GB dictionary appeared ok.

I may have missed something on the instructions on the web page you
sent me, but I don't think a network installation is addressed here.

Why is the dictionary held in two places? This is going to be a pain
for administrators when it comes to multi-user installations. If its
for access speed, I'd suggest creating a local automatically-updated
cache.

Thanks again.

Hi Nick, 
 
There are no shared dictionaries at all in OOo (Yet!). 
 
So each user is supposed to install any extra dictionaries *AFTER* 
they do their workstation install steps.  The only reason things 
exist in the main user/wordbook/ location is to store them for later 
worstation installs by other users. 
 
So the only place you need to put or edit anything is in your own 
home directory: 
 
cd $HOME/OpenOffice.org1.0/user/wordbook/ 
 
Here is where you u8npack the en_GB.zip and here is where you edit 
the dictionary.lst 
 
No other places are supported. 
 
Hope fully in time for the next releases, I will have a shared 
dictionary location and not just user specific ones. 
 
Hope this helps, 
 
Kevin 
 

Hi, 
 
Commited new shared dictionary support to OOO_STABLE_1 which should 
appear in OOo 1.0.1 
 
So I am closing this as fixed. 
 
Kevin 
 

The Issue you raised has been marked as 'Resolved' and not updated within the
last 1 year+. I am therefore setting this issue to 'Verified' as the first step
towards Closing it. If you feel this is incorrect, please re-open the issue and
add any comments.

Many thanks,
Andrew
 
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As per previous posting: Verified -> Closed.
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Regards,
Andrew