Re: Word 2003 and the thesaurus
- From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 19:34:08 -0800
Judith,
I'm not sure you're understanding that what you're accessing this way is
simply not what the thesaurus is. That first bunch of words, from what has
been explained by others here, is only a list of suggested synonyms related
to one, and only one, sense of the word. What you're missing is being able
to first get a short list of all the various uses of the word you are
looking at-- it could be the noun form, the verb form, and it could be one
of several different *general* meanings. The next step in the thesaurus is
to choose one of those first possibilities, *then* get into a list that
offers actual alternatives for just that usage of the word. This is how this
thesaurus is meant to work, and you aren't even seeing most of it. Just
hoping to clarify. If you were to somehow get access to the Word 2000
thesaurus, which is totally navigable with nothing more than your arrow and
tab keys, with no mystery about it, and someone explained what was going on,
you'd quickly see that you've never actually used the thesaurus as it's
meant to be used.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Judith Bron" <jbron@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, January 15, 2007 7:24 PM
Subject: Re: Word 2003 and the thesaurus
I just wanted to say that I used the thesaurus earlier but pressed the
applications button and got all the synonyms or word definitions for the
word that was highlighted. Thanks for the applications key tip.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rick Harmon" <rharmon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, January 15, 2007 8:56 PM
Subject: Fw: Word 2003 and the thesaurus
> Hi YardBird,
>
> Here is the info you requested.
>
>
> Rick
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, January 15, 2007 7:48 AM
> Subject: RE: Word 2003 and the thesaurus
>
>
> Nicol,
>
> Yes it is possible to get Word 2003 to use the same Thesaurus dialogue
> as Word 2000 (or Word 97, come to that).
>
> In Word, open the Tools menu and choose Customise. Tab to the Keyboard
> button and press it. In the Categories list, go to Tools. Tab to the
> Commands list and go to ToolsThesaurus. Note that the one below this is
> ToolsThesaurusRR. The former is the old style dialogue, while the latter
> is the newfangled one. By default the Shift + F7 is assigned to
> ToolsThesaurusRR, and what you want to do is reassign the keystroke to
> ToolsThesaurus. While on ToolsThesaurus, Tab to the "press new shortcut
> key edit" and press Shift + F7. Press Enter twice, the first time to
> reassign the keystroke, the second to close the dialogue and return to
> the Customise dialogue. Tab to the Close button and press it.
>
> You should now find that the Shift + F7 keystroke opens the old
> dialogue. If you want to use the new system, you can still get to it
> from the Tools menu, Language submenu.
>
> Steve
>
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> Sent: 15 January 2007 12:16
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> Subject: RE: Word 2003 and the thesaurus
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> I have the same problem. At work I was first using office 2000, but they
> upgraded us to 2003. I asked them to downgrade me to 2000 again but they
> refused. At home I have office 2000. Is there a way I can install the
> thesaurus of 2000 onto the 2003 office at work? Its only the thesaurus
> of office 2003 that bothers me, other than that 2003 is ok. I have a 2
> gig flash drive, so if there's a way I can copy the thesaurus of 2000
> and install onto the 2003 office it would be great.
> thanks
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> Behalf Of tickpub@xxxxxxxx
> Sent: 14 January 2007 06:51 AM
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> Subject: Re: Word 2003 and the thesaurus
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> Yes about the 2003 thesaurus, a real pain. Thought I was the only one
> that was upset at MS for messing with a good thing. Why their techs got
> to keep wrecking a good thing with what they think to be good ideas is
> technology at its worst!
> I might go back to 2000 just for the same reasons. The worst thing is
> once you do anything with the thesaurus you get stuck with the Task
> Paine thing being checked and now you got to go into the view menue and
> unclick it. Is there a way to shut off that Task Paine thing forever?
> Thank you list from Michael
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