English dictionaries for Apache OpenOffice

This whole idea of various versions of English seems simple enough to overcome. I have said for many years: "Americans speak "American", Australians speak "Ausie" and so on. ONLY THE BRITS SPEAK ENGLISH! So, why not just re-name those versions of "English" to be compatible with the country they represent?

hard to see the text on this extension site so I used my desktop and found that the link for the lastest extension tries to get a file that has been removed. I found other oxt files and saved to them to SD card and will install them to my tiny netbook. Now it's chimp simple to me.
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this is a great add on but it seems the it is missing a English GB Thesaurus

If your extension manager is unresponsive (as mine), here is the work around.

1) Open Open Office and click on New Text Document
2) Click on the pull-down-menu titled Tools
3) Click on Extension Manager
4) At the centre-bottom position, Click on "Add"
5) Click on "Downloads" (default download location for most web browsers)
6) Click on dict-en.oxt (or any relevant .oxt version) and click open
7) Complete.

IF THE LATEST VERSION DOES NOT APPEAR DO THE FOLLOWING:
1) Open Open Office and click on New Text Document
2) Click on the pull-down-menu titled Tools
3) Click on Extension Manager
4) CLICK ON THE DICTIONARY NAME AND CLICK REMOVE AND OK
5) At the centre-bottom position, Click on "Add"
6) Click on "Downloads" (default download location for most web browsers)
7) Click on dict-en.oxt (or any relevant .oxt version) and click open
8) Complete by clicking "For all users" and "Close".

Hope this helps.

The word 'meerkat' appears to be missing from the en-GB and en-US dictionaries. How can missing words be added?

I have never come across such a strange updating operation. One is never quite sure if it has updated or not? I am redirected to another page, which thanks me for updating... then asks me to download?!? There is not any clear direction. Open office assume that I know what they know, which is confusing and unfair to assume. I am still informed that there is an update for spelling and hyphen etc., which I thought I had just updated? I go round and round in circles, simply because I have no clear information on what has/or has not been updated. Why do open office do this?
Please simply offer information as to the extension having been updated on a different webpage PLEASE.
This is the difference between open office and MW. They are so professional. With simple instructions and clarity. I accidentally wiped my MW from my PC, otherwise I would not be using this micky mouse operation.
I have asked for English spelling - what do I receive when writing my academic essays? American language spelling. Lovely stuff - well done open office.

It's been several months that this little "problem" has appeared.

Around the end of every month, OpenOffice displays its "green arrow" telling us that an update to this extension is available, but when we download or when we visit the webpage, no update is there. I think it's because the update is already uploaded to the server but it's not shown as available in the "front-end". It's not a big deal, but it's quite confusing for people.

I am trying sooo hard to figure out what everyone is saying and how to install or download this or that and I can't get it. I am using Chrome and for school purposes I really need to have the spell check. Can anyone PATIENTLY walk me through step by step to get this working.

like many here, i had pretty much given up on getting the english dictionary to work. i was getting the same "does not exist" error. today i fixed the problem for myself and i hope this might help others.

my error basically said something to this effect: "file: C:\Users\Daniel\AppData\Roaming\OpenOffice\4\user\uno_packages\cache\uno_packages\sv8ijdh.tmp_\dict-en.oxt does not exist."

so i opened a windows explorer window and decided to navigate to that location to see what, if anything, was there. the final folder called "sv8ijdh.tmp_" didn't exist, so i created it, copied the dictionary file "dict-en.oxt" into this folder then double clicked on it in that location. BINGO. it launched the extension manager and installed the dictionary and now spell check works correctly for me in all OpenOffice apps.

here's a step by step:
1. open a windows explorer (or other file navigation) window
2. navigate to C:\Users\XusernameX\AppData\Roaming\OpenOffice\4\user\uno_packages\cache\uno_packages
-in this location the part that reads "XusernameX" will depend on you and your computer. Mine was my name. Yours will be different.
3. if it doesn't already exist, create a new directory inside the "uno_packages" folder named "sv8ijdh.tmp_"
4. place the dictionary file "dict-en.oxt" inside this newly created folder
5. execute the dictionary file from that location (double click it or how ever you do that on your computer)

at this point, the OpenOffice extension manager should open. i did get a warning something to the effect of "an earlier version of this extension doesn't exist" or something. i clicked "OK" or whatever affirmative option there was to allow the install to continue.

and done.

i hope this helps others. i don't check in here very often, so if you ask me a question in response, i apologize if i'm long in responding. perhaps others will chime in and help. i'm not a programmer, i'm a graphic designer with basic knowledge of file structure. my first computer was a pre-windows DOS command line monster. i don't know what my solution means in terms of what's wrong in the install package or process. i just know that my spell check works again and i'm very happy.

good luck!

I concur with Richard James. I stopped using English spell-check some time ago. Today I saw an alert that a new version of the dictionary is available for download and followed my nose to the same error message that Charles Glidden received. AOO's Extension Manager recognizes the existence of dict-en.oxt 2014.07.01.

I might also request that the board ban "Clyde". His comments are snide, unhelpful, and frankly ignorant.

My spell-checker also stopped working some time ago, as described by others, underlining everything. I just downloaded this new extension and tried to install then add on, but it keeps giving me an incomprehensible error message (I couldn't copy it) saying something (to do wth unopackages) doesn't exist. I already tried other suggestions to do with user profiles and deleting these and previous dic files, but still the same. Would be good to get this sorted.

I have written code to use the thesaurus files. I am getting sketchy results with the thesaurus. Sometimes I get results (both meanings and synonyms) but more often than not no results are provided even though I can see the word in the .dat file. For instance, I get results for "defended" but not for "house" or "government" or many many others. I am using NHunspell 1.1.1.0 (have also tried 1.1.1.1). I have tried several versions of the English OpenOffices downloads. Very bizarre! Does anyone have any idea what is happening?

I'm with Bud... I tried opening it as a zip file and was met with an array of choices that did not include opening zip files. I tried opening some of the non-Text files in the unzipped file, but that didn't work either (it either failed or opened as a readable file). What am I supposed to do with this thing?

I opened Openoffice on my netbook and there was a popup saying there is a dictionary update and to click to install. it takes me to a webpage to download so I do that and download to my download folder and then I didn't know what to do after that. I read that one opens the downloaded file with openoffice but it just takes me back to the update extension window with the install button. WHY can't this be simpler? how did everyone else not seem to have a problem like I'm having? Some programs just update so easily. I could figure it out of you said o drop the file in a certain folder but now this just has to loop around and bug the crap out of me. Grrrr

I installed Apache_OpenOffice_4.0.1_Win_x86_install_en-GB on Windows 7 last autumn. Spell-check has stopped working. Thesaurus is not available. I have uninstalled and reinstalled OO to no effect.

downloaded upgrade as per desktop notification, attempted install as per instructions, version already appeared to be installed-? better dash handling and ligatures would be welcome. maybe yesterday's upgrade to mavericks os? ugh. ready to revert to typewriters or text writer for content, reserve form for indesign. ;) thanks for your volunteer labor contributions.

What's is the usual way to contribute new words to existing dictionaries?
Thanks,
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My comment is the same as the above. The software refuses to accept the extension.