Language dictionaries: How to use them?

[belidsonn]

I have a G5, I'm using Tiger and a 2004 office educational v. I have
trying to set on worf preferences different dictionaries such as
portuguese, Spanish and French but find only the English dictionary.
However I have older files in these languages and the Word recognize
and does prrofing, edditing grammar on those. Can someone help with
that?
Cheers
Bê

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

You don't do it in preferences but by tagging the text as French so that
Word knows to use the French dictionary when checking that text. For fuller
instructions, see #2 here:
http://word.mvps.org/MacWordNew/Spell-Check.htm
(hit refresh a few times in Safari, or use a different browser)

 

[belidsonn]

Hi Daya,
Thanks a bunch! You made my day! Do you know if we can acquire
different dictionaries from Microsoft? I would need the Latin ones (
Portuguese , Brazilian, French, Italian and Spanish).
Cheers
Bê

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

Hi Bê,

For MacWord, if it doesn't come with it, it's because MS doesn't have it,
I'm pretty sure (since Corentin just confirmed for me the other day). Not
the same as WinWord.

My assortment of files in apps/ms office 2004/shared apps/proofing tools
suggests that you should be able to check spelling for Portuguese,
Brazilian, and Spanish, and spelling and grammar for French and Italian,
though in fact I've not tested most of this. If you don't see files that
suggest the same, then you might not have installed all the languages from
the CD.

I'm basing my assumptions on seeing files with the name "Grammar" in them.
Note that the plain "Dictionary" file is just used for spelling, not for
definitions, and "Dictionary" seems to be a general term MS uses to denote a
proofing file.

If you need more grammar, you can check third party tools. I'm not sure
exactly what CocoAspell offers. There is also something called Ultralingua
that google turned up. You'll have to investigate. Newsgroups for Mac
conducted in that language might offer good information--there seems to be a
microsoft.public.fr.mac but I didn't see any others.

Daiya

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

If you need more grammar, you can check third party tools. I'm not sure
exactly what CocoAspell offers. There is also something called Ultralingua
that google turned up. You'll have to investigate. Newsgroups for Mac
conducted in that language might offer good information--there seems to be a
microsoft.public.fr.mac but I didn't see any others.

CocoAspell is for spelling (and it's free) and UltraLingua indeed offers
grammar tools, but I don't think they really integrate in Office.
It's a separate app you need to transfert text to for grammar checking.
There are plenty others. I've used Correcteur 101 for French for years
and was rather happy with it in MacOS 9 and extremely disappointed in
MacOSX. Druide makes Antidote for French as well and the software is
pretty cool as far as I can tell (but I don't own a license).
I'm sure there are similar tools for other languages.


Corentin

I googled a bit and I found:
http://linguisoft.com/downloads.html
which can use additional spelling dictionaries for various languages,
but I'm not sure it'll do anything for the grammar in these languages
then.