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Open Office ...wheres the Thesaurus?

evolving_doors · 2012-01-16 00:59:33

So Have Macbook osx 10.6 and OPenOffice3 Tried looking for thesaurus add on must be doing some wrong googling or something? Any help? Thanks

16-01-2012 12:59AM

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evolving_doors

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So Have Macbook osx 10.6 and OPenOffice3

Tried looking for thesaurus add on must be doing some wrong googling or something?

Any help? Thanks

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#2 16-01-2012 10:46AM

Idleater

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tools -> language -> thesaurus

user manual wrote:

Note
If the current language does not have a thesaurus installed, this feature is disabled.

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#3 16-01-2012 02:45PM

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VERY clever.

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#4 16-01-2012 04:51PM

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I use Nisus Thesaurus. IIRC it was free to download (but might have been shareware).

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#5 16-01-2012 09:47PM

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Idleater wrote: »

tools -> language -> thesaurus

Yes Feature is currently disabled!!

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#6 16-01-2012 09:51PM

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Liameter wrote: »

I use Nisus Thesaurus. IIRC it was free to download (but might have been shareware).

Cool seems to work ok (just can;t seem to load up other extensions into open office!!)

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#7 17-01-2012 01:22PM

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Sorry I can't help. I just select Nisus Thesaurus via the "Services" line under the main app menu and "Look up Selection". It automatically looks up the highlighted word.

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