Re: Italian spelling check tool for Office 2000

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From: Airborne (Airborne_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 11/25/04


Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 17:57:02 -0800

Thanks Bob

Guess I'll accept the inevitable and buy the text proofing kit. Appreciate
your knowledgeable advice.

"Bob Buckland ?:-)" wrote:

> Hi Airborne,
>
> In a retail edition (not the MultiUser Language Pack)
> edition of Office you can 'enable' any language listed in
> the Office Language Settings tool and be able to type
> or be prepared to proof in those languages, but that enabling
> does not include providing the proofing tools.
> If, for example, you start Word and look at the
> Tools=>Language setting, only those languages listed that
> have the 'abc' logo next to the language name have the
> proofing tools for that language available on that
> computer.
>
> For English Language, retail Office 2000, only English language
> proofing tools were provided. For Office XP and Office 2003
> they added Spanish and French (north american) languages for
> proofing. If you have the Multiuser/Multilanguage editions
> (corporate account) of MS Office then those additional proofing
> tools are included and updates would be available.
>
> The 3rd party translation e-services available through
> http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/marketplace/CE010171831033.aspx
> are separate issues from the Proofing Tools kit (link in
> prior message).
>
> ======
> <<"Airborne" <Airborne@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:1DA2E088-9C30-468F-9BC2-CD56C8E044C5@microsoft.com...
> Thanks Bob
> I'm sure you're right but I'm a little upset because Italian is one of
> Office's enabled languages and Microsoft has yet to fix this problem. I see
> from an an article in the knowledge base on the subject of Italian Text
> Proofing that the company was unhappy with the subcontractor's original
> effort to provide some of these services (thesaurus and some translations, I
> believe). I also note that they have provided numerous fix/installs to
> address related problems around this shortfall. I don't think it fair to have
> to pay for something the company should have included and which they
> acknowledge is their responsibility by responding with a number of fixes to
> the absence of this capability. I'm just hoping to avoid paying 35.USD to
> find the fix they (hopefully) have built to address this problem. >>
> --
> Let us know if this helped you,
>
> Bob Buckland ?:-)
> MS Office System Products MVP
>
> *Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*
>
> Office 2003 Editions explained
> http://www.microsoft.com/uk/office/editions.mspx
>
>
>



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