Re: English New Zealand on Macintosh Word

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On 23/7/08 11:41 AM, in article 59b54dd8.1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
"BobJordanB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <BobJordanB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Thanks Clive for your informative reply - the 'G'day ' was a clue to your
location.

Ah, Kiwis are so darned perceptive!

Thought I had better get my reply in before Saturday so that there
is no danger of tears on the keyboard.

I, er, had that sense of urgency in mind! ;-)

It seems to my simple mind that the dictionaries should move well across
platforms with only recompilation required (in a computer rather than a
lexicographical sense). The fact that it exists on PC must make the task easy?

*Apparently* not at all -- the subject has been raised many times, including
face to face in the odd meeting at Mac Business Unit. You might like to do
a Google groups search of the microsoft.public.mac.office.word group --
author John McGhie -- on "dictionary", "language" etc for the reasons why
not. But John will probably join in soon and comment (he's Australian now,
but the umbilical cord from the Shaky Isles has not yet entirely withered).

Yes changing the language is not a problem per se it is in fact the need to
change documents each time they go from one platform to another that is the
pain.

Yes, understood.

But running a ppppp.. ummmh a wwwwi.. - any other form of computer goes
against my fundamentals

Ho-ho!

Clive H
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- having fun!

Thanks
Bob J.


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