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When the thesaurus function is activated in a program, it supplies the user with possible replacements for the highlighted word or word group. It can indicate the word types, synonyms, related words, abbreviations or complete forms, more desirable forms, etc.

## OpenOffice.org

- Download MyThes
- create “dat” file with thesaurus information:

    ISO8859-1
    talented|1
    (adj)|gifted|untalented (antonym)
    talk|7
    (noun)|talking|conversation (generic term)
    (noun)|discussion (generic term)|discourse (generic term)
    (noun)|lecture (generic term)|lecturing (generic term)
    (noun)|lecture|public lecture|speech (generic term)
    (verb)|speak|communicate (generic term)
    (verb)|spill the beans|let the cat out of the bag|keep quiet (antonym)
    (verb)|lecture|teach (generic term)|instruct (generic term)

- run the indexing program that is part of MyThes
- add both the “dat” file and the “idx” file to the “dict” directory in the installation
- add a line like the following to “dictionary.lst”:

    THES en US th_en_US_v2

- restart OpenOffice.org (and the quickstarter in Windows, if used)

Select a word (like “talented” or “talk”) and activate the thesaurus. The thesaurus can be accessed under Tools→Language.