2004 Word Dictionary

[Morris Brown]

I really dislike the 2004 Word Dictionary. In the Office v.X version,
you could start a word and the dictionary would help you try to finish
it. Fortunately, this feature is still available in 2004 Entourage.
Is there a way to make the dictionary do this on Word 2004, instead of
making a best guess and then pressing GO. I am using G4 PowerBook
w/Mac OS X Version 10.3.4.

 

[Phillip M. Jones, CE.T.]

Edit > Preferences > Spelling and Grammer > Suggest spelling .....

I really dislike the 2004 Word Dictionary. In the Office v.X version,
you could start a word and the dictionary would help you try to finish
it. Fortunately, this feature is still available in 2004 Entourage.
Is there a way to make the dictionary do this on Word 2004, instead of
making a best guess and then pressing GO. I am using G4 PowerBook
w/Mac OS X Version 10.3.4.

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[Morris Brown]

Edit > Preferences > Spelling and Grammer > Suggest spelling .....




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I was looking for a way to change the preferences in the dictionary,
not in spell check.
Sometimes spell check does not come up with the correct spelling.

 

[John McGhie]

Hi Morris:

OK, what confused Phillip and I the first time was that the product you are
talking about is the "Encarta World English Dictionary", not the "Word
Dictionary".

That's a separate application that is not part of either Office or Word.
Regrettably, it does not appear to have any user-definable preferences, and
its user interface seems to have taken quite a step backwards in the journey
from QuickDraw to ATSUI.

Not only will it now not auto-complete, it will not match on a partial word
either. Grumble... I suppose they want us to buy the whole product. Well,
they better get it working better than this

Just a word to the wise: top-posting is deeply appreciated in these
newsgroups. Unless I am on a four-hour train trip and bored out of my mind,
I am not going to scroll anything in these groups: either your question is
in the first screenful, or we won't see it at all. Think laptop screen:
i.e. "the first four paragraphs". We have to look across a large number of
groups (typically, six groups for a Word specialist) and we have only a
couple of hours a day to do this (well, those of us who actually have jobs
to go to and lives ...). We haven't time to stop to scroll the questions --
you just can't get the groups covered in the available time if you slow down
that much

Cheers

I was looking for a way to change the preferences in the dictionary,
not in spell check.
Sometimes spell check does not come up with the correct spelling.

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Sydney, Australia +61 4 1209 1410

 

[JE McGimpsey]

Just a word to the wise: top-posting is deeply appreciated in these
newsgroups.

<jihad>Well, *some* people appreciate the OE-induced abomination known
as "top posting". Others, especially those of us that have been reading
news for 20 years now, prefer bottom posting after ruthless snipping,
with an occasional response "in-line" between quoted sections.

I will top-post in the Win-oriented groups because the heathen demand
it. I refuse to in the Mac groups.

However, I am in complete agreement with John that bottom posting
without snipping is worse than top-posting. If one can't be bothered to
value my time by making the start of the reply visible in the first
screen, I can't be bothered to read it.</jihad>

One reason I prefer bottom posting is that, unlike John, who tends to
read these groups in a block, starting with the original message and
blasting through replies, keeping the subject in context, I tend to read
them throughout the day. The ones that I don't know how to answer I mark
"read" and wait for someone more knowledgeable to come along.

Since I try to read almost all of John's posts, however, in a so-far
unsuccessful attempt to get my Word knowledge above middling, that means
I have to scroll to the bottom of all his top-posts in order to
reestablish the context before I can scroll back to the top to
understand the reply.

 

[Phillip M. Jones, CE.T.]

Ahhh! showing your PC bias huh!

Actually this group is not alone in preferring top posting.
all of the "Mac" oriented Netscape and Mozilla newsgroups both on secnews netscape
server, and the Mozilla.net server Top post.

The champions of the groups find its more efficient to read an answer to the last
thread in a post. so if the last thread is on the top then they can save that extra
two minutes scrolling to the bottom to only find "me too" or "it didn't work".

As for snipping. There are some groups on the Mozilla server that have to do with
RFE's (Referal for enhancement) request and for Technical help, that bottom post,
forbid any snipping at all and you will be roasted on a spit for doing so.

Others newsgroups want snipping only if it doesn';t hurt thr flow of the thought.

We have a saying that applies "When in Rome do as the Romans do."

I read so many groups, that I get out chewed out at least once a day for posting in
the wrong style. I even read some groups that ban interpersed text.

<jihad>Well, *some* people appreciate the OE-induced abomination known
as "top posting". Others, especially those of us that have been reading
news for 20 years now, prefer bottom posting after ruthless snipping,
with an occasional response "in-line" between quoted sections.

I will top-post in the Win-oriented groups because the heathen demand
it. I refuse to in the Mac groups.

However, I am in complete agreement with John that bottom posting
without snipping is worse than top-posting. If one can't be bothered to
value my time by making the start of the reply visible in the first
screen, I can't be bothered to read it.</jihad>

One reason I prefer bottom posting is that, unlike John, who tends to
read these groups in a block, starting with the original message and
blasting through replies, keeping the subject in context, I tend to read
them throughout the day. The ones that I don't know how to answer I mark
"read" and wait for someone more knowledgeable to come along.

Since I try to read almost all of John's posts, however, in a so-far
unsuccessful attempt to get my Word knowledge above middling, that means
I have to scroll to the bottom of all his top-posts in order to
reestablish the context before I can scroll back to the top to
understand the reply.

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[JE McGimpsey]

Ahhh! showing your PC bias huh!

??? I didn't write anything pro or anti-PC.

However, there is one thing far worse than either top-posting, or
bottom-posting without snipping. That's top-posting into a thread that
is already using bottom posting...<g>

 

[JE McGimpsey]

That's top-posting into a thread that is already using bottom
posting...

Oops. Should have been

That's top-posting into a post that is already using bottom-posting

 

[Phillip M. Jones, CE.T.]

??? I didn't write anything pro or anti-PC.

However, there is one thing far worse than either top-posting, or
bottom-posting without snipping. That's top-posting into a thread that
is already using bottom posting...<g>

See I told you'd get chewed out.

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