Proofing Tools 2002 by Microsoft
 
 

Microsoft Office 2002 Proofing Tools
Platform: Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP
Availability: usually dispatched within 24 hours
Format: CD-ROM

Main features:

• Special Fonts
• Grammar and Style Checker
• AutoCorrect
• Spelling Checker
• Thesaurus
• Input Method Editors
• Dictionaries
• Language Tools

Manufacturer's Description:

Edit and proof Office XP documents in more than 40 languages.

Office Proofing Tools offers more great features for Office XP:
* Spelling checkers - Identify mis-spelled words and offer correct spellings in Microsoft(r) Word, Excel, PowerPoint(r), Access, Publisher, FrontPage(r) and Outlook(r).
* Grammar and style checkers - Correct sentences using the suggestions for improved grammar and style.
* Thesauri - Help you find synonyms - even taking inflection into account - for specific words.
* Hyphenators - Help you connect or divide words between lines so your documents look more professional.
* AutoCorrect lists - Apply a different set of corrections for each language to automatically detect and correct typos, mis-spelled words, grammatical errors and incorrect capitalisation - all as you type.
* AutoSummarise capabilities - Extract key points in Microsoft Word documents automatically, providing scannable summaries of the documents' contents.
* Translation dictionaries - Help you look up individual words in the dictionary of a different language. If the translation dictionary doesn't provide the results you want, or you need to translate a longer piece of text, you can connect to translation services on the Web.

New features for Asian and right-to-left languages:
Input Method Editors - Now you can input Chinese, Japanese or Korean characters in Microsoft Office XP on any version of Microsoft Windows(r). Includes the latest Chinese, Japanese and Korean Input Method Editors (IMEs).
Word breakers - Help you highlight words in Chinese and Japanese - languages that don't use blank spaces to delineate words.
Chinese translator - Enables you to translate back and forth between Simplified and Traditional Chinese in Microsoft Word.
Hanja dictionary for Korean - Provides the pronunciation, meaning and number of strokes for the Hanja displayed on your screen.
Hangul/Hanja convertor - Enables you to convert Hanja to Hangul, or vice versa. Additional fonts for Arabic, Chinese, Hebrew, Japanese and Korean.

System Requirements:

Windows 98, 98Se, Me, 2000 or NT 4.0 with service pack 6
Pentium 133MHz or higher
Microsoft Office XP
24MB RAM for Windows 98 and 98Se, 32MB for Windows Me or NT, 64MB for Windows 200
An additional 8MB RAM for each Office application running simultaneously
20MB of free hard disk space for each language
240MB of free hard disk space for each East Asian language
CD-ROM drive
Super VGA 800x600, 256 colours
Microsoft Mouse