How to install a German and a Dutch spellcheck? Recent Word 2003 .

[Guest]

Recently bought Word 2003 Upgrade has only French and English spellcheck. I
need German and Dutch as well. This has never been a problem with earlier
Word releases.

 

[Guest]

Thanks very much. I am however dismayed that I have to pay extra because I
bought Word 2003 in the UK, whereas buying in the Netherlands the German and
Dutch spellcheck (as well as English and French) always came standard. Now it
looks cheaper to buy a new Dutch Version than to buy the additional proofing
tools for two languages!

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

Indeed, very dismaying. You can complain to MS at this website, perhaps
pointing out that their old structure is no longer sufficient in the current
EU.
http://register.microsoft.com/mswish/suggestion.asp

You may have misunderstood, though--I believe that once you buy the 1 CD,
you can install as many languages as you want from it. I don't think it
makes a price difference that you need two extra languages.

 

[Opinicus]

Indeed, very dismaying. You can complain to MS at this
website, perhaps
pointing out that their old structure is no longer
sufficient in the current
EU.
http://register.microsoft.com/mswish/suggestion.asp

You may have misunderstood, though--I believe that once
you buy the 1 CD,
you can install as many languages as you want from it. I
don't think it
makes a price difference that you need two extra
languages.

An idea I've had is that when you buy a copy of Office in
any language you should also get a number of "vouchers", say
three or, better, four. Each of these "vouchers" will be
redeemable for the additional proofing tools in a language
of your choice. I have an English version of Office for
example. The other languages that come with it are French
and Spanish but in my work I need Turkish and (occasionally)
French and German.

This being an MS public newsgroup I won't tell you how I
solved the problem but my wife has a Turkish version of
Office and it comes with English and German support...

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

This is a good idea. Have you suggested it at
http://register.microsoft.com/mswish/suggestion.asp?

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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[Opinicus]

This is a good idea. Have you suggested it at
http://register.microsoft.com/mswish/suggestion.asp?

I have. And I would like to ask everyone else who thinks
it's a good idea to do the same.