Greek Language support on Mac

[CMM.]

My lil sister wants to switch to Mac after years and years of PC use. I am a
little hesitant about this, but both her best friend and her boyfriend have
a powerbook and she has fallen in love with that notebook, so what i have to
say will have little effect on her untimate decision. so i've spent the past
couple days feverishly reading up on the life of a mac user in a PC world.
(particularly is it possible for a mac to join a Microsoft Advance Server
Domain -- but thats a different post entirely)

so far all the basics are covered. except for multi-language support -- i
cannot find much information in this respect. unfortunately, she needs to
create and edit documents in the Greek language. Further more, some sort of
greek spell check option would be nice. on our windows PCs we were able to
copy the "Proof" folder of one PC that had greek proofing tools onto the
other PCs and all the mechines attained Greek proofing ability. i wonder if
it will be that easy w\ her Mac. also wonder if i can copy the contents of
my XP based proof folder into a similar folder on her mac and attain the
same results.

also, does Entouage have an option to "Use Word as my e-mail editor" the way
we can in Outlook XP?

thanks in advance for taking the time to reply.

Best regards,
CMM.

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

One of the reasons you haven't gotten any answers is because you are
offtopic for the entourage newsgroup. Look for a general Mac newsgroup.
There might even be a greek language Mac newsgroup (since Usenet has
everything) where you would get the best answers.

Office 2004 is mostly Unicode and should be able to handle Greek, but I
don't see any Greek proofing tools in my Office 2004 installation, and I
thought I had installed all the available ones. There might be third party
proofing tools (SpellCatcher from Rainmaker, perhaps?), or non-MS software
that handles Greek better (Mellel as Word-equivalent, perhaps?).

I would try Google and Google Groups on the Greek question, you are sure to
find some resources and explanation.

also wonder if i can copy the contents of
my XP based proof folder into a similar folder on her mac and attain the
same results. No.

also, does Entouage have an option to "Use Word as my e-mail editor" the way
we can in Outlook XP?

Not as far as I know, but since I have never understood what that does, I
don't know if there are workarounds for comparable functions. Composing in
Entourage leans heavily on Word for AutoCorrect, spellcheck, etc.

DM