On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 14:59 +0000, Douglas Furlong wrote: > On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 08:59 -0500, cmilhaus wrote: > > I am running FC-3 on a P3-450, with 524 megs of Ram. It was a clean > > install, that reformatted the HD. > > There appears to be a running "quirk" regarding spell check and Open > > Office Writer. Whenever I am in a document, the first time I go to > > correct the spelling; it takes forever for spell check to kick in. By > > forever, I mean 30 to 45 seconds. Once it cranks up, it's fine for the > > rest of the document or the rest of the session. > > I am wondering if anyone else has had this experience, and if there > > are any ways to work around it. (This has been an issue since FC-2)(at > > least for me) > > If anyone can offer any pointers, this relative Linux newbie would > > greatly appreciate it. > I believe this delay is due to the spell checker dictionary being loaded > in to memory, some one mentioned that it was fixed in FC3, but I have > not tested it yet. > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Yeah this happens to me every time I install or upgrade OOo. To fix it edit the /usr/lib/ooo-1.1/share/dict/ooo/dictionary.lst file and comment out (with a #) all the languages that you'll never use. The only lines that I have uncommented in my dictionary.lst are DICT en US en_US HYPH en US en_US THES en US th_en_US I gleaned this little tidbit from the OpenOffice forum. http://www.oooforum.org/forum/ -- Tim Becker Principal Consultant Six Degrees Consulting !M$ Be careful what you wish for, you just might get it.
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