: How do I create a custom dictionary in OpenOffice? Writing fantasy and sci-fi, I grow a sizeable specialised vocabulary per story (names, locations, fantastical things, etc.) I grow tired of the

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When you use the first word needing to be added to your new custom dictionary, once it's been highlighted by the spellchecker running in the standard dictionary for your language of choice, right click on it, choose Add, and in the pulldown choose the custom user dictionary you wish to use - this user dictionary sits atop the default standard dictionary - you can create multiple user dictionaries and choose per project if that will suit your needs.

There's a great community support forum for OpenOffice, and there are a fair number of posts & replies around user custom dictionary issues in specific - I include a link herein not as a proposed answer, but in order that OP have a starting point for examining the OOO fora.
forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=93765&p=446100&hilit=add+user+dictionary#p446100

Hope this helps some.

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