Polish SpellCheck for Office2011 for Macintosh

[Latarnik]

I am very unhappy with Office 2008 for Mac. It does not have a Polish
SpellCheck and is very slow on my MacBook. I had to purchase
SpellCheck in Poland for additional money, it required several updates
and had to be reinstalled almost every week!
I need to now ASAP whether Office 2011 for mac (both versions with and
without Outlook, have Polish SpellCheck and grammar. If they do,I will
buy one very quickly,
If it does not have reliable Polish SpellCheck, I will stick to
OpenOffice.org and forget all the frills of Microsoft Office.
I am coordinating group of Polish - English translators and I will
tell them my decision, to collaborate on Polish subtitles to videos
and we will be using the same software. It is all up to you, you
either have it or you don't.
I noticed for the last 20 years that Microsoft was neglecting Polish
language, by not providing Spell Checks for Macintosh platform and
ignoring requirements of Polish language, as far as fonts are
concerned. I had to purchase separately fonts from Adobe like Garamond
Premium Pro, which prints in Polish perfectly but often gets scrambled
in the Internet, which does not understand coding required for the
language understood by close to 100 million people!
Having seven different coding systems for few European languages is as
bad as not having any standards at all. Polish needs Unicode (UTF-8).
Why don't you get your army of programers to agree on one system of
coding for all the people using Latin alphabet, with all the
diacritics?
Failing that continues frustration of end users which keeps your
company on the receiving end of all the words angry people say.

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

I am very unhappy with Office 2008 for Mac. It does not have a Polish
SpellCheck and is very slow on my MacBook. I had to purchase
SpellCheck in Poland for additional money, it required several updates
and had to be reinstalled almost every week!
I need to now ASAP whether Office 2011 for mac (both versions with and
without Outlook, have Polish SpellCheck and grammar.

Office 2011 doesn't come with Polish proofing tools at all.
Outlook is a different story though. It uses the MacOS X proofing
services. If you have Polish spell checking o your Mac (e.g.: in Text
Edit), then it will work quite the same way in Outlook.

[…]
I noticed for the last 20 years that Microsoft was neglecting Polish
language, by not providing Spell Checks for Macintosh platform and
ignoring requirements of Polish language, as far as fonts are
concerned.

MS is market driven. The MacBU has somewhat limited resources and my
guess is that their marketing analysts told them the Polish market
wasn't big enough for them :-\
Don't shoot me messenger (and it's just a guess - MS doesn't usually
post here).

I had to purchase separately fonts from Adobe like Garamond
Premium Pro, which prints in Polish perfectly but often gets scrambled
in the Internet, which does not understand coding required for the
language understood by close to 100 million people!

With proper fonts (including the ones provided in Office) this
shouldn't be a problem though,but it also pretty much depends on what's
available on the computer where you are reading the messages.

Having seven different coding systems for few European languages is as
bad as not having any standards at all. Polish needs Unicode (UTF-8).

You can send messages in UTF-8. Again, the main issue is generally what
fonts are available on the recipient computer.

Why don't you get your army of programers to agree on one system of
coding for all the people using Latin alphabet, with all the
diacritics?

Done!
Use UTF-8 and make sure people have up to date fonts on their computers
to properly display the characters you need.
This has been a problem for years and years (not just with MS) and it
almost always turns out to be a font issue.

Failing that continues frustration of end users which keeps your
company on the receiving end of all the words angry people say.

You sound like you're talking to MS. This is a peer-support group.
Don't expect MS to read the messages (unfortunately).
This is not even am MS-hosted group. They have their own forum (also
peer-supported) on http://www.mactopia.com/


Corentin