synonyms

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SURESH

hi friends...

i required your help in this regard.. it may be silly/hard? for you...

that.. if i wrote "great" in Cell A2, i want Great's synonyms in B2.... and
also if there is any spelling mistake .. thats too want to know in C2 ( or
Great)

thanks in advance
Great regards,
suresh tp
 
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David McRitchie

Hi Suresh,
I certainly would not be happy with two or three words, why not just
go to a web page. The format is hardly consistent between the pages of any two different words.

A2: great
B2: =HYPERLINK("http://www.synonym.com/synonym/"&trim(A2),"synonyms for " & A2)
C2: =HYPERLINK("http://vancouver-webpages.com/cgi-bin/find-synonyms.cgi?name="&trim(A2),"more synonyms" )
D2: =

for a dictionary you can use do something similar based on
http://education.yahoo.com/reference/dictionary/
http://education.yahoo.com/reference/dictionary/search?p=great
for more words (definitions) you can use
http://www.wikipedia.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great

If you use Firefox as your browser you can make up an appropriate
shortcut for a Keyword Search
http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/firefox/kws.htm
 
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David McRitchie

The thread in programming where Tom replied to a duplicate posting was
http://google.com/groups?threadm=#KJAl#[email protected]
which stays within Excel uses a Word dictionary to get the synonyms,
it will need a reference under VBE Tools, References to the
Microsoft Word 9.0 Object Library -- your version required may differ

Truly remarkable, I'll be keeping a modified copy of that one.
 
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