Re: Word 2003 and the thesaurus
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- Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2007 20:51:08 -0800
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
On Sat, 13 Jan 2007 19:53:33 -0800 "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
writes:
> For this very reason, I reverted to my old Word 2000 with its
> traditional,
> simple to use Thesaurus, which works easily for me and which I know
> how to
> navigate easy as pie. At this juncture, someone's likely to suggest
> one or
> another different online or free thesaurus applets, so I'll just say
> thanks
> but Word 2000 is working just fine for me, and meets my vocabulary
> needs in
> the way that helps me perfectly.Once you learn how to use it, it's
> structure
> just like certain traditional print Thesauruses, which rely on your
>
> recognizing the various shadings of a word so you can choose a
> direction to
> go in to look for alternatives. So if Word never again comes up with
> a
> similarly usable thesaurus without bells and whistles and links of
> all
> sorts, I'll stick with my Model A Word 2000, and if that eventually
> becomes
> obsolete after the change to Vista or something, I'll resort to
> online sites
> like dictionary.com and Merriam Webster.com.
>
> Just a personal vent, I guess. But you aren't the only one who's
> flummoxed
> by the Word 2003 thesaurus hassle. Again, the function and the
> linguistic
> structure of the one I use suits me to a T, so I am not looking for
> any free
> pop-up applets. I'm using "pop-up" to mean what we used to call a
> TSR
> (terminate and stay resident) program under DOS. which one of those
> little
> freebies reminds me of.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rick Harmon" <rharmon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, January 13, 2007 7:34 PM
> Subject: Re: Word 2003 and the thesaurus
>
>
> Hi,
>
> while you can get to the synonyms list with the application key,
> this barely
> gives you any words to choose from. It's nothing compared to what
> the
> thesaurus gives. I've been told that the thesaurus isn't very
> accessible
> with word 2003 though.
>
> Rick
>
>
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Louis Lucero" <lclucero@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, January 13, 2007 10:30 PM
> Subject: Re: Word 2003 and the thesaurus
>
>
> Judith,
>
> Thanks for the information. After messing around with it, I found
> that if I hit the applications key and arrow down or strike the Y
> key
> the thesaurus comes up and a list of possible words.
>
> Thanks so much for helping out.
>
> Louis
> At 04:03 PM 1/13/2007, you wrote:
> >I know that with jaws 7.1, and this took some getting used to, I
> hit
> >shift f7 and the first option that comes up is
> >"research". Sometimes you tab again and get other options, many
> of
> >which I haven't figured out, and if you tab one or two more times
> >you get to thesaurus for the word your cursor is on. For each tab
> >you get another synonym for that word and the next button is that
> >word plus the word button meaning that if you hit that button that
> >option will appear in your document. I hope I made myself clear
> and
> >that this helps.
> >----- Original Message ----- From: "Louis Lucero"
> <lclucero@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >Sent: Saturday, January 13, 2007 3:38 PM
> >Subject: Word 2003 and the thesaurus
> >
> >
> >>Hi List,
> >>I am using Jaws 8.0 and Word 2003 and am having a difficult time
> >>using the thesaurus. I cannot access it using Shift + F7. Can
> >>anybody please help? Thank you very much.
> >>
> >>Louis
> >>
> >>"Luck is a product of hard work."
> >>Louis A. Lucero
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