Re: Using MS Main Library in Access VBA

Stuart Henry wrote:

>I am trying to build an anagram utility for improving Scrabble skills. It
>involves inputting seven letters and then creating a table with all possible
>combinations for those seven letters (I have been able to do this pretty
>easily). I next want to check that table against a dictionary to find out if
>any of the combinations are actually words. Then I would like to write the
>actual words to another table. I don't see how to use the Microsoft main
>dictionary for this. It looks like I have to create my own custom
>dictionary, but I don't know how I would populate that with all the words in
>the English language. Is there a way to use the Microsoft main dictionary
>for this purpose? Or does anyone else have any ideas?


The Access "dictionary" is just the spell checking feature
that's part of all the Office applications. One way to get
to that is to place a string of characters in a textbox,
give it the focus, select all the characters, then use
DoCmd.Runcommand acCmdSpelling. That may cause problems in
that you will get the spell check dialog box.

You would probably be better off doing this project in Word
where you can use the CheckSpelling method. Or you may want
to explore using the Word Library or Automation to use that
function from Access.

--
Marsh
MVP [MS Access]
.

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