KV,
First, I hope you have created your own dictionary containing your
words, not just add your words to the OpenOffice dictionary distributed
with OpenOffice. The latter stands a good chance of losing your words at
the next update. Creating your own dictionary should prevent such loss.
I did some checking and discovered my dictionary was not enabled. You
may check if yours is enabled by:
Tools > Spelling and Grammar... > Options
Ensure your dictionary is in the list and if not checked, then click on
the box and enable it. It could be that updates to not carry over the
check, for I had my dictionary enabled at some time in the past and now
it was not. Select Edit and verify your words are in your dictionary
selected. This should prove your dictionary is still present in
OpenOffice. If not there, then it must be reinstalled. My dictionary is in:
~/.openoffice/4/user/wordbook
This is under Linux, of course. YMMV.
It may be a good idea to back up this directory before updating, so you
can restore your dictionary after the update if it goes missing. In
fact, it may be even better to back up the whole */4/ directory.
HTH.
Girvin
On 4/12/23 9:24 AM, K V wrote:
Hopefully this will reach someone.
I find that in each update to Open Office that my dictionary rarely
migrates all my specific spellings, in both place names and surnames. This
is quite aggravating since I am a historian and author working on numerous
history projects and several books.
It would be very helpful if in the system updates one's dictionary was
extracted and migrated to the new update dictionary so that we don't have
to teach/correct the Open Office Writer dictionary each and every time.
Thanks in advance for your attention to this.
Kevin V. Bunker (longtime OpenOffice user)
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