spanish dictionary for Word

[Steve Dipaola]

My daughter is studying abroad for 6 months and is wanting the spanish
dictionary for MS Word. She is using MS Office for Mac v.X student and
teacher addition. Is the spanish dictionary included in her install or
is it available to add on. Also, how would it be best to get it to
her? Thanks.

Steve

 

[Michel Bintener]

If it isn't installed already (and if you did a standard installation, it
won't be), have a look inside the Value Pack folder on the Office CD. Run
the installer, and you'll be able to select which components you want to
install, and among these components, you'll find a Spanish spellchecker.
Note however that this is a spellchecker only; as far as I know, there is no
Spanish grammar checker, and there is no Spanish dictionary, either.

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

To use the Spanish spellchecker, once installed, your daughter needs to tag
the text as Spanish so that Word knows which spellcheck to use. See here
for more info:
http://word.mvps.org/MacWordNew/Spell-CheckContent.htm#DifferentLanguage
(hit refresh a few times in Safari, or use a different browser)

PS. For a full immersion experience, she ought to be able to change the
menus, etc to Spanish for Mac OS X (check MacHelp). But she can't change
the menus in Word or any Office programs like that. She might want to talk
to her university language center, however--they might have a way to get the
Spanish version of Office inexpensively.

 

[Mickey Stevens]

You can get the proofing tools for Spanish from the Office X CD. Insert the
Office X CD, then open the Value Pack.  Run the Value Pack installer.  Click
the triangle next to "Proofing Tools" to expand it, then check the "Italian"
box. Click Continue to install the component.

In Word, you can switch the active dictionary under Tools > Language once
you have it installed.

Note that the Spanish proofing tools does not include a dictionary with word
definitions as is available for English.

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

In Word, you can switch the active dictionary under Tools > Language once

you have it installed.

Well, that doesn't really switch the active dictionary--phrasing it that way
is a misconception of how Word works in this arena. It changes the format of
the text you are typing in, but Word will still use whatever dictionary is
necessary to match the language tag on the text in the document. If you go
to Tools | Language and select Spanish half-way through typing an essay,
Word will use English for the first half and Spanish for the second half.

Totally nitpicking, just because so many people post in confusion--"I set UK
English as the active dictionary but it still uses US English". You don't
set an active dictionary--you format text in the language you want. (Though
you do set an active custom dictionary, gotta love Word .

Daiya