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Wednesday, August 12, 2009 2:03 AM

Office 2007 Language Interface Packs and spell-checkers are now available for Bengali (Bangladesh), Urdu, Sinhalese, Nepali, IsiZulu, IsiXhosa, and Afrikaans

Several Indic and African languages have recently been added to the list of Office 2007 Language Interface Packs which can be freely downloaded by users who wish to change the language of their user interface and make use of a spell-checker. The new LIPs
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Thursday, July 16, 2009 11:45 PM

Proofing Tools in Office 2010

On Monday this week, Microsoft launched the Office 2010 Technical Preview. Thousands of customers can now download this latest version of Office to try out the cool new features and provide feedback. Updates and Replacements The Technical Preview includes
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Monday, June 08, 2009 5:01 AM

Check spelling or grammar in another language: a new training course on Office Online

Do you have difficulty checking spelling and grammar in a different language in Office 2007? If you do not know how to set the language of your text, check out this new “ Check spelling or grammar in another language ” training course, which is precisely
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Tuesday, January 27, 2009 3:31 AM

Office 2007 Language Interface Packs and spell-checkers for Armenian, Georgian, Telugu, Konkani, Punjabi, Kannada, and Oriya

In a recent post, the Language Log was discussing localization of software in under-resourced languages like Yoruba. Mark Liberman noted that, via its « Unlimited Potential Program », Microsoft had probably done more for linguistic diversity than any
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Thursday, January 08, 2009 5:00 AM

An academic evaluation of the Office 2007 contextual spelling checker

A few days ago, I discovered an analysis of our Office 2007 contextual speller carried out by Prof. Graeme Hirst, from the University of Toronto: An Evaluation of the Contextual Spelling Checker of Microsoft Office Word 2007 . We have discussed this new
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Wednesday, October 22, 2008 10:54 PM

English Grammar Checker, Fragments, and Settings

A French translator was asking an interesting question the other day on the Word community newsgroup . He wanted to know how he could switch off the grammar rule which flags “Fragments”, i.e. incomplete sentence fragments that the writer is invited to
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Monday, March 17, 2008 9:34 PM

The Tatar Language Interface Pack for Office 2007 is now available

A new language now has its own LIP (Language Interface Pack) for Microsoft Office 2007: Tatar. This LIP has been available for a few days and enables Office users to work in a localized environment. Besides the user interface, which is localized into
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