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Office Proofing Tools 2003

The Microsoft Proofing Tools for Office XP are aA collection of editing technologies that enable users to proof Office documents in 50 different languages. The tools include spelling and grammar checkers, AutoCorrect lists, AutoSummarize capabilities for Microsoft Word, and more. Icelandic and Gaelic (Ireland) proofing tools are included for the first time. Many spellers have been updated to support reading from and writing to custom dictionaries in both Unicode and ANSI; this means you can use one custom dictionary for all languages.

Features

• Proofing Tools for More Languages
  Office XP Proofing Tools are now available in 50 languages: Arabic, Basque, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Gaelic, Galician, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Marathi, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukranian, Vietnamese, and Welsh.
• Translation Dictionaries
  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 Languages
  Input Chinese, Japanese or Korean characters on any version of Windows using IMEs (Input Method Editors); use Word Breakers to highlight words in Chinese or Japanese; translate between Simplified and Traditional Chinese; and, use the Hanja dictionary and the Hanja/Hangul converter with Korean.
• Additional Fonts
  Office XP Proofing Tools features additional fonts for Arabic, Chinese, Hebrew, Japanese and Korean.
• Spelling Checker
  The spelling checker identifies possible misspellings in a text file by comparing the contents of the file with a database of accepted spellings, and is one of the most frequently used features of Microsoft Word. But spellers can perform more sophisticated tasks than simply comparing terms from a database. For some languages, inflectional information (i.e. variations of a word) is introduced in algorithms to fine-tune the output; this is the case for highly inflectional languages such as Swedish and Romanian.
• Grammar and Style Checker
  The grammar checker corrects sentences using a system of rules that defines the grammatical structure of a language. Microsoft Word integrates this tool and runs it in the background, making corrections automatically.
• Thesaurus
  The basic function of a thesaurus is to look up synonyms for a particular word. But the thesauri in Proofing Tools perform more sophisticated tasks than simply retrieving direct synonyms for a given term from a database. Special algorithms in thesauri extract inflectional information (i.e. variations of a word) from a stem word (i.e. base word) to provide a series of synonyms with the same inflection. For example, looking up the word running, would yield the possible synonym jogging.
• AutoCorrect
  AutoCorrect automatically detects and corrects typos, misspelled words, grammatical errors, and incorrect capitalization. For example, if you type teh plus a space, then AutoCorrect replaces what you have typed with "the." You can also use AutoCorrect to quickly insert text, graphics, or symbols. For example, type (c) to insert "©", or type ac to insert "Acme Corporation."
• Hyphenation
  Hyphenation helps eliminate gaps or in justified text, and helps maintain even line lengths in narrow columns. The hyphenation tool allows a user to connect (as two words) or divide (as a word at the end of a line of print) two or more terms with a hyphen. Languages vary in their flexibility on hyphenation rules.
• AutoSummarize
  AutoSummarize identifies the key points in a document for you to share with others or quickly scan. The tool determines key points by analyzing a document and assigning a score to each sentence. Sentences that contain words used frequently in the document are given a higher score. You can then choose a percentage of the highest-scoring sentences to display in the summary. AutoSummarize works best on well-structured documents such as reports, articles, and scientific papers.
• Input Method Editors
  An Input Method Editor (IME) works with the operating system to allow you to enter Asian text in Windows and enabled applications - including Office XP - by converting your keystrokes into Asian characters. Often the only visual indication that an IME is installed on a computer is a floating toolbar for controlling the conversions, and an indicator on the Windows taskbar. Different Asian languages require different IMEs — for example, to enter Japanese text, use the Japanese IME.

Specifications Per Language

System Requirements

Office XP (2002) Proofing Tools
Pentium 133 MHz or higher processor with Pentium III recommended; Windows 98/Me/NT/2000/XP; RAM: 24 MB for Win 98, 32 MB for Win Me/NT, 64 MB for Win 2000, 128 MB for Win XP (add 8 MB for each Office application running simultaneously); 20 MB hard-disk space for each language (other than East Asian languages), 240 MB hard-disk space for each East Asian language; Office XP (Word 2002).