Exporting the Word List from a User Dictionary

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“Exporting” the User Dictionary

When spell-checking a document, you have the option of adding unrecognized words to a user dictionary. The default user dictionary is standard.dic. If you want to export these words, you can do so as follows:

  • Locate the dictionary file. It can be found at the following path: ~/Library/Preferences/NeoOffice-2.2/user/wordbook/standard.dic or ~/Library/Preferences/NeoOffice-3.0/user/wordbook/standard.dic (where ~ is your home folder).
  • Copy this file to the Desktop or another location
  • Edit the name of this file (the copy) so that the extension reads .txt
  • Open this .txt file in NeoOffice (if asked which filter to use, chose UTF).
  • You will see a list of words separated by # characters. You can use a global search and replace to format the file as you need to.
  • You may also need to remove some hard page returns.

Related Questions

  • Does NeoOffice read the Mac OS X user dictionary, or just regular Mac OS X dictionaries? If so, DictEdit or Dictionary Cleaner might be useful tools for transferring words.
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