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From: dgraham@kean.mun.ca (David Graham)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: French spelling checker
Message-ID: <20160@kean.mun.ca>
Date: 10 Oct 89 16:09:25 GMT
References: <1989Oct1.030111.19813@ctr.columbia.edu>
Organization: Computing Services, Memorial University. St.John's Nfld, Canada
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In article <1989Oct1.030111.19813@ctr.columbia.edu>, gabe@ctr.columbia.edu (Gabe Wiener) writes:
> Is there any way to get a French dictionary for MS Word 4.0?  

As far as I know, Microsoft's position on this is still that you have 
to buy a copy of the French edition of the software.  At least that 
was what they said when I complained about this last spring.

> I'm getting
> _really_ tired of proofreading French documents by hand, but my volume of
> documents doesn't justify the purchase of the French edition of Microsoft
> Word.  

Mine does, but not the purchase of both French and English (I work 
about equal amounts in both languages).

> Is it possible to use the French dictionary with the regular U.S. 
> program?  

No.  I tried this.  

> Or is the search algorithm different?

According to what I was told by Microsoft, the dictionaries are coded 
very differently and cannot be read by other versions of the program.
Apparently redoing them is under consideration but will never happen 
unless enough of us complain.  This alone is nearly enough to make me 
buy Nisus...

> Gabe Wiener - Columbia Univ.      "This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings 
> gabe@ctr.columbia.edu              to be seriously considered as a means of 
> gmw1@cunixd.cc.columbia.edu        communication. The device is inherently of
> 72355.1226@compuserve.com          no value to us."

David Graham				dgraham@kean.ucs.mun.ca
Department of French & Spanish		(709)737-7636/7
Memorial University of Newfoundland