[vicsireland] Re: dictionaries.
- From: "Cearbhall O'Meadhra" <omeadhrac@xxxxxxx>
- To: <vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2012 22:08:47 +0100
Damien,
It has taken me all day to realise that what you are looking for is simply a
way to enter your words in a file and have them in alphabetic order when you
want to retrieve them.
The best way to do this is in Excel as Michael has already suggested.
However, you can do it in Word if you set up the document as a table. In
other words you are using the logic of Excel in the context of word.
Jaws will help to manage a table very well in Word. In that case you could
make a point of adding your new word to the last empty row of the table and
then doing a sort of the entire table in alphabetic order on the first
column. That way your new entry will be moved into place by the sort
routine.
If the Irish word you are entering is associated with and explanation and an
equivalent in English, you could accommodate this in a three-column table.
The rows would stay intact and so you could sort on the Irish column when
you are looking for an Irish word or sort on the English column when you
want to see English choices. In all cases the explanation and related
translation would stay together on the same row.
All the best,
Cearbhall
T: +353 (0)1 6364364 m: 08333 23487 E: omeadhrac@xxxxxxx
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[mailto:vicsireland-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Damien O'Connor
Sent: 03 August 2012 11:47
To: vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [vicsireland] dictionaries.
Hi everyone.
Maybe this is off topic and if so, please accept my appologies. I'm studying
Irish language and am creating my own irish to English and English to irish
dictionaries using ms word 2007. They are now getting quite large and it's
taking a lot of time to find the correct place to insert the words and their
meanings. Does anyone know of a way in word whereby I could simply type the
word and it's meaning say into a box and word would then insert it into the
correct place in the document. Maybe word itself doesn't have this kind of
facility, in which case, does anyone know of an accessible programme that
does. Just to be clear, I'm not talking about actual pronunciation of words
or the dictionary mannager in jaws. I'm simply trying to find a quick way of
inserting text into a document in alphabetical order without having to arrow
through a lot of pages to get to where I need to be. Any help on this would
be appreciated.
Thanks in advance
Damien.
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