Thesaurus

[Shirley Zaknich]

Every time I activate my Thesaurus in Word 2003, I have to restart Word again. Everything freezes. Thanks to all who reply.

 

[Mike Williams [MVP]]

Every time I activate my Thesaurus in Word 2003, I have to restart
Word again. Everything freezes. Thanks to all who reply.

Is this for English language thesaurus? How are you activating the
Thesaurus: via menu, shortcut key or ...?


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[Shirley Zaknich]

I activate it two ways... the first way, via Shift F7 and also by clicking the word and holding ALT down. And yes, it's English. Thanks.

 

[Mike Williams [MVP]]

I activate it two ways... the first way, via Shift F7 and also by
clicking the word and holding ALT down. And yes, it's English.
Thanks.

<Please allow cross-posting to spelling NG to continue so that relevant MS
staff can see the problem>

So that's 3 ways then? Or does the menu not work? Does anything happen
before Word freezes - a task pane appears or a pop-up menu or dialog?

Do you have any Word add-ins installed?

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[Shirley Zaknich]

Every time I activate my Thesaurus in Word 2003, I have to restart Word again. Everything freezes.

I activate it two ways... the first way, via Shift F7 and also by clicking the word and holding ALT down. It's in English.

When I activate one of the above shortcuts, it brings up the Thesaurus task pane, and simply refuses to move, hence it freezes

Not sure what the "add-ins" are, but I have installed from the CD, and would have done a typical installation
And again, not sure about the Cross-post bit. I copied over some of my original info. AND I know there is a better way - but when you don't know, then it's the long way. Thanks again.

 

[Mike Williams [MVP]]

Every time I activate my Thesaurus in Word 2003, I have to restart
Word again. Everything freezes.

I activate it two ways... the first way, via Shift F7 and also by
clicking the word and holding ALT down. It's in English.

The "first way" I listed was by menu, but (and it's still not obvious) you
don't appear to use that. The ALT method brings up the general Research pane
first rather than going to the thesaurus directly. Do you actually see any
results in the Research pane? If so, are they from the thesaurus, and how is
the thesaurus labelled?

Not sure what the "add-ins" are, but I have installed from the CD,
and would have done a typical installation.

Add-ins would be things like the toolbars/menus installed by Adobe Acrobat.

And again, not sure about the Cross-post bit.

It seems to be OK now: both NGs are listed.

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[Shirley Zaknich]

----- Mike Williams [MVP] wrote: ----

Shirley Zaknich wrote

Every time I activate my Thesaurus in Word 2003, I have to restar
Word again. Everything freezes
clicking the word and holding ALT down. It's in English

The "first way" I listed was by menu, but (and it's still not obvious) yo
don't appear to use that. The ALT method brings up the general Research pan
first rather than going to the thesaurus directly. Do you actually see an
results in the Research pane? If so, are they from the thesaurus, and how i
the thesaurus labelled

Not sure what the "add-ins" are, but I have installed from the CD
and would have done a typical installation

Add-ins would be things like the toolbars/menus installed by Adobe Acrobat

And again, not sure about the Cross-post bit

It seems to be OK now: both NGs are listed

Mike Williams - Office MVP http://www.mvps.org/faq
If something doesn't make sense, it could be worse e.g
http://www.rathergood.com/moon_song

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After all the frustration, I DETECT AND REPAIRED, and things seem (fingers crossed) working OK

Thanks a lot for your help, I enjoy reading the what the MVPs have to say.