Are there extra dictionaries available for Word?

[Col Dee]

Do any companies sell more comprehensive dictionaries for Microsoft Word or
Office? I ask because I find the thesaurus very limited in its vocabulary and
it would be great to have a much larger number of words. Do any companies
sell programs to expand Word's "vocabulary"?

 

[Paul Ballou]

http://wordweb.info/free/
you might find Word Web useful .
Also checkout the pro version it offers 7000 more entries

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[Riz]

Hi, I posted a similar concern about this also, I think the thesaurus built
into Word is thin and kid-minded. The whole purpose of having a thesaurus is
to find a suitable word substitute (preferrably of higher quality), not a
third-grade kiddie dictionary.

Anyway, I've used wordweb and it's alright.

I still prefer Thesaurus.com and Dictionary.com though.

Btw, to all the MS Word designers, for a all our sakes, please include a
better thesaurus.

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Riz,

You may want to also post this suggestion in the
MS Word Spelling and Grammar newsgroup. Some of the
MS folks who work on those products are there from time
to time (link below).

One of the issues for Microsoft to add language tools is
that they often need to be able to do ones that cover a
lot of languages for globalization.

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Hi, I posted a similar concern about this also, I think the thesaurus built
into Word is thin and kid-minded. The whole purpose of having a thesaurus is
to find a suitable word substitute (preferrably of higher quality), not a
third-grade kiddie dictionary.

Anyway, I've used wordweb and it's alright.

I still prefer Thesaurus.com and Dictionary.com though.

Btw, to all the MS Word designers, for a all our sakes, please include a
better thesaurus. >>
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LLet us know if this has helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP
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A. Specific newsgroup/discussion group mentioned in this message:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.word.spelling.grammar
or via browser:
http://microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/?dg=microsoft.public.word.spelling.grammar

B. MS Office Community discussion/newsgroups via Web Browser
http://microsoft.com/office/community/en-us/default.mspx
or
Microsoft hosted newsgroups via Outlook Express/newsreader
news://msnews.microsoft.com

 

[Beth Melton]

If you use Office 2003 then you can utilize the Research task pane and
use the thesaurus and dictionary from different providers. You can
either right-click a word and select "Look up" or hold Alt and click
the word to open the Research task pane.

Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for
assistance by email can not be acknowledged.

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Microsoft Office MVP

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