David B Teague wrote:
Manfred J. Krause wrote:
Hi,
On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 16:34, Inbaraj Sammanasunathan wrote:
Hi
Microsoft Word has a synonym feature where you could get alternate
words.
I cannot find that feature in Open Office.
Does this feature available in the OpenOffice.
Ctrl + F7 [not: Shift + F7 ;-) ]
See also Help <F1>
Index: thesaurus;related words
Manfred
You have to highlight the word for which you want the thesaurus to give
you options. That may seem obvious but I didn't find it so.
David
There use to be a third-party software that did the work
as well. I have a 1991 dictionary-unabridged version that
I used. I had hot keys and it worked great. Still works
on Vista. I do remember seeing free stuff out there as well.
YES it would be great to have a version built in to Word,
Writer, or whatever, that had the range of a Webster unabridged
dictionary/thesaurus/etc. software, but who will volunteer
to make it work for each localization (or just their own)?
I take my hat off to all who volunteer to do things to make
OOo a better product. I just do not ask them to go over
the top on some things when others are out there that "need"
to be worked on to make them available to the users.
Heck, Word never had a proper dictionary/thesaurus system
for most people I dealt with at business and college level
individuals. They usually had a book or third-party software.
Do you know that there is now over 200,000 words in the general
English language and some references put it to over 500,000
words? I worked on a project, once, as a programmer that took
e-documents and collected an usage-based word list. It topped
over 250,000 in the first month of sending e-documents through
the filtering programs. In 1986 there was a project to stuff
177,000+ English words into a typewriter's spell-check memory.
I was on that project as well. I had to write the local test
programs for the "stuffed words system" file.
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