Installing Thesaurus from older Office suites

[jkriordan]

When I first attempted to use the Thesaurus, OneNote 2007 prompted me to
insert my Office 2000 Premium disc, the most recent full Office package I
have. The install evidently failed. OneNote began giving me a 'buffer
overrun' error message and forced the program to terminate. I fixed this with
a Restore rollback. However, I'd really like to get Thesaurus working. I
really don't want to buy Office 2007. I have Works 2002, with Word. Will that
have the Thesaurus module, so I can install it?

 

[Erik Sojka (MVP)]

The thesaurus should be part of OneNote. You shouldn't need to buy a
different version of Office to get it. I doubt grabbing a file from an
older/different version of Office or from another program entirely would
help.

Can you run the Office Diagnostics from the Help menu and see if that finds
any missing files? It should prompt you for the OneNote install CD if it's
missing anything.

 

[Rainald Taesler]

The thesaurus should be part of OneNote.

Really interesting!

How and why might I make use of it?

Rainald

 

[John Waller]

Rainald,

Does this help?
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/onenote/HP101513611033.aspx#11

 

[Rainald Taesler]

Does this help?
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/onenote/HP101513611033.aspx#11

Fore sure!
Thanks a million!
One learns day by day!
(and when stopping this process the location probably would be the
graveyard).

Although the question of a "Thesaurus" for many long years had been one
of the main issues in my main IT project and several generations of
students did work on that, I would have never thought that something
like that might be available in my beloved ON <g>.

Will have to check on this a bit more tomorrow and run some series of
tests the other week,

Thanks again
Rainald

 

[Erik Sojka (MVP)]

Use the Research Task Pane, which can be accessed by right-clicking on a
word and clicking "Look Up"

 

[Rainald Taesler]

Use the Research Task Pane, which can be accessed by right-clicking
on a word and clicking "Look Up"

Thanks a lot.

Shame on me! I've been using ON since the Beta days and did never come
across the Thesaurus feature ... {siiiigh}

Rainald

 

[John Guin [msft]]

Hello,

I have a few questions for you.

1. What version of Windows do you have?
2. What order did you install Office and OneNote? I assume you had Office
2000 first, the installed OneNote 2007.
3. What applications with Office 2000 did you install? If you installed an
Office 2000 app that uses the thesaurus, does it work as expected?