Comments for the weekly whinge

Comment on OpenOffice 3 British English Thesaurus by Omi

Omi — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 10:13:26 +0000

Thank you! I’ve been hours trying to sort this out. Worked with Ubuntu 13.04 raring, on libreoffice 4.0.1.2 Will put a link to your blog on Google+ Ubuntu community. Thanks again!

Comment on OpenOffice 3 British English Thesaurus by Coral

Coral — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 19:58:10 +0000

THANK YOU! you saved my life!

Comment on Google Chrome bug in onchange on select dropdown by Bret

Bret — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 17:16:39 +0000

This is still busted in Chrome. Thanks for posting this original article. It is still relevant.

Comment on OpenOffice 3 British English Thesaurus by Aj Ray

Aj Ray — Sun, 02 Sep 2012 14:36:41 +0000

Thank You! It worked for LibreOffice 3.6

Comment on OpenOffice 3 British English Thesaurus by tatiana.larina

tatiana.larina — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 19:17:21 +0000

The cosmic law of the universe – when you ask the right question, the answer will come. I’ll share for the benefit of other users:

1. Navigate to the Libre Office profile directory (in Win 7 C:\Users\”YourUserName”\AppData\Roaming\LibreOffice\3\user\extensions
2. Rename the extensions directory
3. Restart Libre Office _twice_

Worked like magic

A possibly quicker solution from LO 3.6 release notes (haven’t tried it myself)

If you update from an earlier version, spellchecking might be broken. In this case, the following workaround helps:

On Linux, in a terminal window enter “rm -r ~/.config/libreoffice/3/user/extensions”
On Mac OS X, in a Terminal window enter “rm -r ~/Library/Application\ Support/LibreOffice/3/user/extensions”
On Windows, in a Command Prompt window enter “rmdir /q /s %appdata%\LibreOffice\3\user\extensions”
After that, please restart LibreOffice twice.

Comment on OpenOffice 3 British English Thesaurus by tatiana.larina

tatiana.larina — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 18:46:28 +0000

Hi,

Every time I update Libre Office (for Windows), it screws with my thesaurus. During a previous automatic update I lost all thesauruses except the French one and your extension then saved my butt. Now I upgraded to 3.6 and I seem to have dictionaries for Swedish, Spanish and Portuguese (neither of which I speak or write) but no English. I tried reinstalling your extension once again but this time this doesn’t seem to work – the installation process went fine, but thesaurus option is still greyed out. Please help.

Comment on OpenOffice 3 British English Thesaurus by ecrookes

ecrookes — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 15:41:43 +0000

Thanks;-)
oo still do not provide the UK Spell check.

Releived that I do not have to do what you have already done.

Reinventing the wheel is such a waste of life.

Comment on OpenOffice 3 British English Thesaurus by Rob Mimpriss

Rob Mimpriss — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 09:14:21 +0000

Many thanks indeed for this fix.

Linux Mint 13

Comment on OpenOffice 3 British English Thesaurus by Stuart B

Stuart B — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 12:02:51 +0000

A big thank you for this. I’m still using Ubuntu 10.04 but removed Open Office to give Libre a try. The sudden lose of the spell checker was a nasty surprise.

Comment on OpenOffice 3 British English Thesaurus by Faust

Faust — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 10:26:26 +0000

Job done in 10 seconds!! That’s smashing, thanks a lot