Encarta World English Dictionary for Macintosh


hhm, I thought I'd spend a couple of seconds to follow up on my earlier post about the Encarta World English Dictionary that's included in Office V.X for Mac. I'm no whizz at searching, but if I can't find what I'm looking fo r with in a couple of clicks from a start point, (In this case, www.mactopia.com) I'll try a search field or two.
Results: AGGGHH!
OK,... how about 'all words' = encarta macintosh?
thump [head on desk]

Well, my half hour is not going to turn into an hour. I found this in the "Product and Technology Catalog" for Microsoft ® Office 2001 for Mac under the "Features" heading

Encarta World English Dictionary
Office 2001 applications offer new integrations with the critically acclaimed Encarta World English Dictionary, allowing people to find definitions of highlighted words. Users can now define complex words without launching a separate application or looking up words in a paper dictionary

And that's the only mention I could find so far of this in ANY Mac product (after 1995).

Hold on, let me go back and check for specs in the Word standalone...
Nothing. So I guess you'll have to take my word for the fact that the Encarta World English Dictionary is included in Office for Mac OS X. I don't know if it's also in the Word for Mac OS X standalone. Microsoft isn't telling.

What a waste of time that was.

Posted: Thu - October 23, 2003 at 11:02 AM            

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