--- Forwarded Message from LeeAnn Stone <[log in to unmask]> ---

>Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 11:32:18 -0700 (PDT)
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>From: LeeAnn Stone <[log in to unmask]>

Hi,

    I'm in a language lab and occasionally I get people who
 would like to spellcheck in a language other than english.
We are running Windows NT and Office 97.  I know that
under the Tools menu, Language menu you can set the
language used for spell checking.  It lists over 50 options,
however none of them seem to really work (though there
is no indication from the program that you're not really
checking in the selected language, you just have to
know).  I believe that it's pulling the list of languages from
the the OS built in list found in the Keyboard control panel
and that the dictionaries are not actually installed but still listed.
To avoid user confusion I removed that menu item from Word.
Knowing though that the Mac version of Office had about 10
other dictionaries in the Proofing Tools folder of the Value Pack
 folder on the CD I assumed the PC version would have them also,
however I didn't find any additional dictionaries.  I discovered
that they need to be purchased separately, but now my question is,
if additional dictionaries are purchased and installed and I put the
Set Language menu item back in Word, will just those languages be
displayed or will all 50?  Is there a way to
remove from that list the languages that are not actually installed or is
there any indication to the user as to which are really installed?

Thanks,
Stan Woo-Sam
Humanities Instructional resource Center
UC Irvine