How can I enable the thesaurus in LibreOffice?
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1Have you done this?: sudo apt-get install openoffice.org-thesaurus-en-us (English Thesaurus for LibreOffice/OpenOffice.org)– david6Dec 7, 2011 at 0:33
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Use this: weeklywhinge.com/?p=69 This article was posted on that blog in 2009. It still works with Libre Office 7.3 in 2024, fifteen years later. This is for UK English, by the way.– C26Mar 24 at 21:36
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Using the standard installation of LibreOffice you don't have to install it. It is already installed. You can right click any word choosing the entry »Synonyms«. Now you will get a list of synonyms to the selected word. If this does not work
- go to then main menu »Tool->Options«,
- choose the sub menu (on the left column) »Language Settings->Writing Aids«
- and then enable the option »OpenOffice.org new thesaurus« under the category »Writing Aids«.
That's it.
If this option is marked, but the thesaurus option in the tools>language menu is still grayed, then you have to perform this command using terminal:
sudo apt-get install openoffice.org-thesaurus-en-us
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2I have performed that command using the terminal, a package was installed,i shut down the pc and restarted it, opened LibreOffice and the thesaurus is still grayed.– user48583Feb 29, 2012 at 13:18
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This is not available for me to install using apt. I am not sure why. 16.04 eOS version. I am using 5.3. There seems to be a different interface for 5.3 Mar 7, 2017 at 10:38
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2I had to install
mythes-en-us
fromapt
instead of the statedopenoffice.org-thesaurus-en-us
.– MaxattaxSep 23, 2017 at 19:34
It is strange but, if you use English (UK) for your paragraph, Libreoffice does NOT use thesaurus. You check this under Tool > Options > Language Settings > Writing Aids > Modify and see that English (UK) has no thesaurus.
If you choose the English (USA) you can use the thesaurus. I think the problem is solved in this way.
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2You can get the thesaurus working now with UK English, I posted a how-to here. Oct 3, 2012 at 20:50
It isn't that LibreOffice doesn't have the Thesaurus. It does, but for some reason it wasn't turned on when I installed mine.
Go to Tools > Options > Language Settings > Writing Aids > Options, make sure the top two items are checked: Check spelling as you type and Check grammar as you type.
After doing that I had the Thesaurus. I also had Check spelling as you type, but you can disable that in the toolbar, by clicking the ABC with the red squiggly line under it.
To use the Thesaurus, Ctrl+F7, or right-click on the word for which you want a synonym, hover over Synonyms.
I fixed this problem by installing Thesaurus:
sudo apt-get install openoffice.org-thesaurus-en-us
Then selecting all the text and changing to USA:
Tools → Language → For All Text → select English (USA)
I can now access:
right-click → Synonyms
If Tools>>Language>>Thesaurus is greyed out, you need to install them first. From a terminal type the following to get English American:
sudo apt install mythes-en-us
To see all available, type:
apt search mythes
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In Lubuntu, I used the Muon package manager to install the thesaurus. Sep 6, 2020 at 22:27
Using LO 3.5.3.2 on Ubuntu 10.04 the following got me going:
(1) Tools > Options > Language Settings > +Languages: set 'default languages for documents to 'English (UK)' or 'English (USA)' (you'll notice that these two have spelling symbols next to them - not sure if this only relates to dictionaries or to thesauri as well.
(2) Tools > Options > Language Settings > +Writing Aids: edit 'Available language modules' > 'OpenOffice.org New Thesaurus' and choose 'Language' to be English (UK) or (USA) as desired.
I also downloaded and installed the thesaurus created by the weekly whinge at the same time, but perhaps you might not need to do that. At any rate, even after installing the whinger's extension I still only see 'OpenOffice.org New Thesaurus' in the writing aids dialogue.
You should also probably make sure all of your text in your document is set to the same language as chosen in steps above.
Click on Tools -> Language -> For All Text -> Select English (USA).
This working because in Ubuntu there is thesaurus packages installed by default. In synaptic this have the name: mythes-en-us (is possible that in some distribution are not, you can install it manually)
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2Is this different from this much older and more detailed answer? Jul 15, 2012 at 17:07
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Well, this answer does explain how to select English (USA). So you may want to keep it. Or you could suggest an edit to that answer, and if/when it's approved, you could delete this answer. It's your call. Jul 15, 2012 at 18:23
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Trust me, it works.
Download and install this Libreoffice extension:
American British Canadian - spelling/hyphen/thesaurus dictionaries Libreoffice extension
American English - hyphenation, thesaurus, 638K+ word list extension worked for me. Just start Libreoffice and the thesaurus won't be grayed i.e. you can use Ctrl+F7
to open thesaurus dialog.
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Initially, the thesaurus uses the language of the selected word in the document, if a thesaurus library for that language is installed. The title bar of the Thesaurus dialog displays the language in use.
You can install languages with a thesaurus library from the Extensions web page.
References and more info can be found on the LibreOffice site here.
The same problem goes for the Australian dictionary. I went into Synaptic, and installed mythes-en-au : then I was able to use it without a problem.