Grammar Check For Open Office
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So you are trying to drop that MS Office habit but find yourself struggling thanks in part to features missing from Open Office (Oo) such as a solid grammar check feature. As it turns out, there is a solution for Oo users looking for this kind of functionality, be it about as ‘craptacular’ as the one for MS Office.
The problem is that grammar checkers in any form are a half-hearted solution to a larger problem. Another thing to consider is that the grammar check offered in this article does not underline mistakes as they do with misspelled words. This is due largely to the fact that this is an add-on rather part of the Oo bundle.
Installation:
- Download the plugin, likely to your /home folder for an easy find later.
- Open Office Write, go to Tools, look for Extensions manager toward the bottom of the list.
- Choose ‘Add’, then browse to your home folder, select the unzipped folder with the plugin it in. So yeah, do not unzip the downloaded plugin.
- Close Write then restart it. Look for ‘LT’ with a red squiggly line under it floating around or embedded into the toolbar.
- Test it out by typing; “Its a good opportunity.” Then click on the button represented with the ‘LT’ letters. That’s it!
[tags]Linux, Ubuntu[/tags]
7 Comments
marc klink
July 26th, 2007
at 2:16pm
Perhaps someone needs to approach Corel about Grammatik, which I believe is under their control. I used it long ago, and it was much superior to anything MS offered.
Matt Hartley
July 26th, 2007
at 11:16pm
Sounds really interesting, but could not find a link on Google. Do you have a link for it, Marc?
pcwiz...
July 30th, 2007
at 1:51pm
Hello,
This is entirely off-topic: I need a floppy disk install for a version of Linux for a Compaq notebook, era 1998, that has a Multi-Bay, either CD ROM or Floppy. I have tried Unbuntu, and Puppy CD’s to no avail, it won’t boot from the CD, not smart enough.
So, I need a LINUX boot floppy, with enough OS on it to load CD ROM drivers even if the CD drive is not plugged in.
Any thoughts???
I’d like to use the notebook, not trash it. It will run DOS and Win95.
Thanks!
pcwiz...
July 30th, 2007
at 1:53pm
Grammatik was a good product, I didn’t know it was still available.
We certainly need something!!!
Cheers! 8)
pcwiz…
Roy Schestowitz
July 31st, 2007
at 1:47am
Cool, thanks for the tip.
Armando Barreiro
July 31st, 2007
at 3:16am
SBM will allow you to boot from CD when it finds a bootable CD
in the tray:
From TUX ezine:
QUOTE
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There is another wonderful free software product out there called Smart Boot Manager. You can find it at the URL .
The techies and existing Linux users can read about it on that page, but for the Windows users that are a little uncertain about booting anything but Windows, here’s the 411 on it:
1. Download the Windows EXE file from
to your C:\ directory.
2. Grit your teeth and open a DOS command-line window.
3. Put a blank floppy in your A: drive.
4. Type: sbminst -d 0 (that last character is a zero).
5. It will rattle your floppy drive for a second and ask ‘Are you sure you want to install Smart Boot Manager to drive 0? (y/n)” press y and Enter.
6. About two seconds later, you’ll have your boot floppy!
Booting with this floppy in the drive quickly pops up another DOS-like character screen that lets you press the down arrow to move through menu choices like Quit to BIOS, Power Off, Floppy, Hard Drive and, yes, CD-ROM.
Down-arrow to that choice and press Enter…
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UNQUOTE
BTW, I suggest that you give Puppy Linux a whirl in that LT:
HTH,
Armando
Sierra Night Tide
February 6th, 2008
at 10:35am
istalled and tried it for a month on my Eee PC
Doesn’t work — misses 90% of grammar mistakes