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• Launchpad Entry: https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+spec/openoffice-gnome

• Created: 2005-10-27 by JaneWeideman

• Contributors: JaneWeideman, MatthiasKlose

• Packages affected: openoffice.org-*, openoffice.org2-*

• Depends: OpenOfficeGnome, OpenOffice64, OpenOfficeL10n, OpenOfficeHelp

Introduction

Informal spec, consisting of

• OpenOfficeGnome

• OpenOffice64

• OpenOfficeL10n

• OpenOfficeHelp

• OpenOfficeTesting

Add other open issues / todo's to this page until a specification is created.

CategorySpec

QuickStarter

The ooqs-* packages no longer exist in Dapper. However, you can easily enable the built-in quickstarter in OpenOffice.org 2 via the application preferences.

Click

Tools > Options > Memory

and check the box for

Load OpenOffice.org during system start-up.

The quickstarter will automatically run the next time OO.org is started.

Alternatively, add a Startup Program in your Sessions preferences:

ooffice -quickstart -nologo -nodefault

Speedup

Setting some memory settings give a serious speed improvement from the default Feisty Ubuntu installation:

• Open OpenOffice.org Word Processor

• Go to Tools -> Options -> Memory

• Set the following values:
  • Number of steps: 30

  • Use for OpenOffice.org: 128 MB

  • Memory per object: 20 MB
  • Number of objects: 20

Spellcheck languages

It's possible to install extra languages for OpenOffice through the myspell-* packages:

• Find the name of the language pack you want through a search on the packages database (e.g. myspell-da for danish)

• Install the package:

sudo apt-get install myspell-da

• Voila! You might have to restart OpenOffice in order for it to recognize it.