minor Open Office problem

[paul marwick]

I found this problem in the preview, but by the time I hit it, the
release was out. Just got an update CD and updated to the release
version, problem still seems to be there.

I have OOo set to use UK english dictionaries and have it set to
autocorrect. That works fine. What doesn't is when I add a word to the
dictionary. So, autocorrect finds a word it doesn't like, I right click
on it, select 'Add', the red underline goes away. Save the document,
exit OOo. 

Restart OOo, load the document, and the word already added to the
dictionary is underlined as wrong again. Right click on it, select add
and the underline goes away. In addition, if there are any other words
in the document that have already been added to the dictionary, the red
underline associated with them goes away as well. I finally located the
'standard.dic' which is the only choice given when adding words, and
the words I've added are certainly there. However, it seems that OOo
has to be reminded of them every time :)

I did a completely fresh install of Ubuntu 4.10 from the new CD on my
test box. While setting things up on that machine, when I tried to set
some defaults for OOo, I got the following error:

/usr/lib/openoffice/share/autoext/english_uk does not exist

Don't know if its relevant to the problem I'm seeing. On one machine, I
have Slackware 10 plus Mandrake 10 as well as Ubuntu. OOo in either of
those distributions (one is version 1.1.2, one is 1.1.3) does not
exhibit this problem. In addition, OOo 1.1.2 under Win2K does not seem
to have the problem.

Has anyone else seen this?

paul.

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