Legal terms added to spell check

[Guest]

It would be great if MS would consider adding a legal terms spell check
option. The only program available is SpellEx from the UK for an extra $120
- and it's not that US friendly. MS could sell additional terminology
dictionaries for legal, medical, technical, engineering, etc. as every
profession, occupation has special terms they use daily. I know having legal
terms in spell check would really help my law firm. Thanks

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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

This is one of those "damned if you do, damned if you don't" situations. If
Microsoft provided these dictionaries as part of Office, it would be jumped
all over for stifling competition. Yet when MS leaves such tasks to
legitimate competitors, people complain because they have to pay extra. I
would suggest that large law offices, if they don't want to pay for add-ins,
should create their own custom dictionaries. And small offices can certainly
do the same. It is easy to create a custom dictionary, and if you set it as
your default, any word you add will be added to that dictionary. It
shouldn't take too long to accumulate a significant body of legal terms that
can be shared around the office (by sharing the .dic file).

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

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It would be great if MS would consider adding a legal terms spell check
option. The only program available is SpellEx from the UK for an extra $120
- and it's not that US friendly. MS could sell additional terminology
dictionaries for legal, medical, technical, engineering, etc. as every
profession, occupation has special terms they use daily. I know having legal
terms in spell check would really help my law firm. Thanks

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suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I
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