Microsoft Proofing Tools 2003 [Old Version]

List Price: $79.95

Features:

• Includes spelling and grammar checkers, and thesauruses
• Also supplies AutoCorrect lists, Hyphenator, and other editing tools
• Edit Office documents in more than 50 languages
• Proofing tools for all languages are included on a single CD
• Install only the languages you need

Customer Reviews:

Huh? I give it a 5 for DO NOT BUY! for Arabic, at least. [Posted on 2005-12-23]
This is not a great product for Arabic. Microsoft brags that its "Translation Dictionary" for Arabic, included in the software, includes a database of 450,000 words culled from all the major dictionaries out there. But if you try to enter in a semantic grouping of two or more words, such as a verb plus a preposition, you usually get "no entry found." This problem also applies to words that are inflected in any way. Also, the voweling is not included. No voweling , inflections, or verbal phrases!?! DO NOT BUY THIS for Arabic, EVEN if it is your only choice....I am bilingual in Chinese. In all fairness, the conversion tools for characters are useful, but as for the dictionary, the Taiwanese Ministry of Education, Dr. Eye and Jinshanci offer FREE dictionaries that are more useful than this costly one by Microsoft. If you are from Microsoft: 1) please give us a browsable dictionary, 2) include the Arabic vowelling! 3) fire your current Arabists and hire someone better! I feel cheated! For Arabic I wish I could give this an even lower rating. For Chinese and Korean it probably deserves a positive 3 or 4, not higher because there are free or less expensive products that contain many of this products' features and are of better quality. If you are going to charge us $70, make the product good, please. Consumers: BE WARNED!

great customer service  [Posted on 2006-08-04]
I had to replace the purchase - cd-rom had read-on errors and didn't load properly. I filed the request online and get my replacement disk the very next day, no questions asked. Great service Amazon. Keep up good work!!!!!

Excellent Software [Posted on 2007-01-04]
It was a big to me, because English was not one of my greatest subject and it is a big help to me. I Highly recommend this product for your computer.

grammar check is quite poor [Posted on 2007-01-10]
spell check is good; however, the grammar check is quite poor. There seems to be some problem with the article and adjective check. It rarely offers the correct correction for either.

Why must I pay extra for a common language like GERMAN? [Posted on 2007-01-13]
If languages like Spanish and French are included in the STANDARD MS Word dictionary, a common language like GERMAN should be included as well. Why do I have to pay extra ($79.95 LIST) for an overly comprehensive dictionary that includes every obscure language, script, and dialect in the world to get a single common language like German? This sems discriminatory!

Overall MS "Proofing Tools" seems to be a good package, but I feel GOUGED at what I have to pay to get a single additional COMMON language. It would be better if only English was standard in MS Word and if, with each Word license, a buyer could get a free download of one or two common languages of the buyer's choice.

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