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I'm trying to find proofing tools for Office 2010 on MS site, but something is completely wrong. All the links now bring me to the Office 2013 options. Even the link "Download a Language Pack for Office 2010" on http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/language-packs/office-2013-language-options-FX102851176.aspx brings me to Office Language Pack 2013 page.
Actually I don't need the full language pack, I just need the spellchecker working for some languages (russian, estonian, some more). As I see it is possible to freely download such proofing tools for Office 2013, but they don't work with Office 2010.
What I show do and where I can them?
Thanks in advance,
Vadim
A family of Microsoft word processing software products for creating web, email, and print documents.
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Suzanne, when I clicked that link yesterday it just took me to the MS Store main page, with no obvious way to get to proofing tools. Today it works as intended. Tomorrow... who knows?
That link takes me to http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msusa/en_US/pdp/productID.253665800, which has a dropdown in which a language can be selected. Since this is a US site, it may not be available in other countries because of pricing issues.
No, it does not work for me.
When you buy any version of Word, it comes with proofing tools for a certain number of languages. Traditionally, the English version of Word has included English (all varieties), French, and Spanish. If you buy a different-language version of Word, it will come with proofing tools for other languages. All those proofing tools include a spelling lexicon and a thesaurus, as well as a hyphenator. A spelling lexicon is not a thesaurus, and a list of words that you paste into CUSTOM.DIC will not function as a thesaurus because it doesn't know anything about synonyms, which is what a thesaurus is for.
None of these tools will give you definitions or pronunciation (the function of a true dictionary). That function can be added to some versions of Word by selecting a dictionary through Research.
Anything you can get free will be pirated. You don't have to install the entire language pack; you can install just the Proofing Tools without the UI.
It is definitely wrong. You can get a lot of things for free and not "all of them" are pirated. MS sells us a software, a word processor in this case to process words. The software ALREADY includes spell check and proof reading. You only need a dictionary and thesaurus for it. MS might have compiled a dictionary and thesaurus for every language (And I really don't think that they have done such a thing. For instance for Turkish, they use the official thesaurus of the state (which is actually unreliable among many Turkish speakers and writers) and I never heard that MS paid any royalties to use it. So MS basically pirated its own thesaurus for Turkish language.
Using a thesaurus or dictionary while using MS Word is as I said, ALREADY included in the price. MS might try to sell us a thesaurus (which is presumably pirated by MS!!!) but in no way is anyone obliged to buy it. You can download any thesaurus from the internet and if you find a way to use it with MS Word; it is nowhere near to piracy.
PS: You know that MS Word has also a CUSTOM.DIC right? You can just download a thesaurus for any language, copy and paste it in CUSTOM.DIC. Is this piracy? Of course not. But don't ask her, she will tell you that you have to pay if you want to print your documents, pay more if you want to save them, pay more and more and more. Are you for real?