again: Spanish Grammar missing in Word 2004 for Mac

[nico]

I see this topic has been discussed before.
Although a dozen languages have grammar support in Office 2004 for some
reason Spanish, probably one of the top 5 languages spoken worldwide,
is missing.
Here's a list of supported languages
http://word.mvps.org/Mac/Languages.html

They have Swedish grammar and not Spanish???

The other bizarre thing is that it's available on Windows Office 2000
and 2003.

Looking in WindowsXP, Office 2003 under
c:/Program Files/Common Files/Microsoft Shared/
I see the necessary files, in particular one called
MSGR3ES.LEX

I wonder if it would be possible to convert the windows Spanish Grammar
file to work on the mac version?

I tried copying it in there and changing its name to look like the
Italian and Swedish grammar files, and now it thinks there's a Grammar
file but the "rules" file is missing and so it never seems to find
errors.
There's also a .DLL in an adjacent folder in windows. That's probably
the Rules file.

Why would Microsoft do that?!

Thanks for any suggestions,
Nico

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

Actually, that's not bizarre. There are tons of language proofing tools
available for Windows Word that aren't available for the Mac--totally
different market, totally different decision-making, and I suspect that the
production of the actual tools is outsourced to totally different people.

Swedish grammar but not Spanish *is* pretty bizarre.

I *strongly* doubt that you can take any sort of system file that is
internally accessed by Word off a windows machine and have it work on a Mac.
I'm not surprised that didn't work.

PS. I only see grammar support for 5 languages on that totally unofficial
list....