On Sunday 05 December 2004 21:08, P Jones wrote: > > Hi again; > > I forgot to attach the workaround that I read about somewhere that seems > to be working here. I notice, just looking at total memory consumption, > that the first right click on a misspelled word results in a loss of 4 > meg of RAM (round numbers). > > Anyway, the workaround: > open /usr/lib/ooo-1.1/share/dict/ooo/dictionary.lst in a text editor and > delete or comment out all the lines that refer to dictionaries that you > are NOT intending to use. Also delete the irrelevant HYPH and THES > lines. My dictionary.lst file looks like this: > > DICT en US en_US > HYPH en US en_US > THES en US th_en_US > > Hope this helps, > > -P Hi, thank you for this help - it worked perfectly fine for me. Now it just takes a few seconds and a few megs to start the spell checker. Thanks also for the bugzilla link - I was in the middle of entering my own bug :-) Peter.