Portuguese proofing tools

[Herlind Wurth]

Hi!

I have the english version of Office v X for the Mac.

Unfortunately only a few languages are supported (english, french, spanish,
italian, japanese, norwegian, german, danish, swedish and dutch).

But I need the proofing tools for portuguese. I searched to web for it, but
came up with nothing.

Please tell me, where I can find theses tools. Is there somewhere where I
can download them? Is there some package that I could purchase, that
includes the tools?

any help is appreciated

Thanks, Herlind

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

Hi!

I have the english version of Office v X for the Mac.

Unfortunately only a few languages are supported (english, french, spanish,
italian, japanese, norwegian, german, danish, swedish and dutch).

But I need the proofing tools for portuguese. I searched to web for it, but
came up with nothing.

Unfortunately the topic came many many times int he newsgroup but there
is no easy solution for you. You might find a third aprty app that does
it, but there is no Portuguese proofing tool in Office X.

Office 2004 on the other hand comes with Portuguese proofing tools
(spelling and hyphenation).


Corentin

 

[Herlind Wurth]

Unfortunately the topic came many many times int he newsgroup but there
is no easy solution for you. You might find a third aprty app that does
it, but there is no Portuguese proofing tool in Office X.

Office 2004 on the other hand comes with Portuguese proofing tools
(spelling and hyphenation).


Corentin

Hi Corentin!

Thanks for the information. Searching the net some more I came about the
following way to incorporate portuguese spellchecking into the custom
dicitionary. I think you are familiar with it.

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1. First go to:
http://www.eg.bucknell.edu/~excalibr/excalibur.html
And download the freeware spell checker Excalibur 4.0

2. Go to
ftp://ftp.eg.bucknell.edu/pub/mac/Excalibur-dictionaries/Portuguese.hqx
To download the Portuguese spell checker file

3. Install the Portuguese dictionary (just drag the file to Excalibur
folder) in Excalibur, then:
Dictionary/Conversions/Dictionary->Text
Choose the portuguese file and save it (you can use the default Excalibur
format)

4. Open this file in Word X. Select All and Copy. It make take a while, but
it works.

5. In Word Preferences, edit your Custom Dictionary. Paste everything you
have in your clipboard (the text you selected from your exported file from
Excalibur). Save your Custom Dictionary (if you are not using it, it's time
too select it, still in preferences)

6. If you did everything right, you are now using your Main dictionary
(probably English) and your Custom Dictionary from the Excalibur Portuguese
dictionary.

7. If you want the Custom Dictionary suggest words, unselect the "Suggest
from Main Dictionary only" preference.
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I did as suggested and now have all the words in the custom dicitionary. But
unfortunately when I type one of the words, it is not recognized as correct.
When I ask the spell-checking for a correct suggestion (ctrl-click on the
word) then the same word comes up, but with a capital letter in the
beginning of the word.

But when I again open the file of the custom dicitionary, all the words in
there are without capital letters. Do you know what is going on and how I
can make Word correctly recognize the portuguese words?


thanks, Herlind

 

[Herlind Wurth]

Thanks for the information. Searching the net some more I came about the
following way to incorporate portuguese spellchecking into the custom
dicitionary. I think you are familiar with it.
(snip)

I did as suggested and now have all the words in the custom dicitionary. But
unfortunately when I type one of the words, it is not recognized as correct.
When I ask the spell-checking for a correct suggestion (ctrl-click on the
word) then the same word comes up, but with a capital letter in the
beginning of the word.

But when I again open the file of the custom dicitionary, all the words in
there are without capital letters. Do you know what is going on and how I
can make Word correctly recognize the portuguese words?

Well how stupid can you get!
This was not spell-checking that complained about the non-capitalized words,
but grammar-checking. Word regards every word as the beginning of a
sentence, even if there is only one word per line (so clearly no sentence at
all).

So, problem solved - this solution workes fine.
Thanks to Neto who orginially posted it.


bye, Herlind