Customer Reviews

Microsoft Proofing Tools 2003 [Old Version]

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If languages like Spanish and French are included in the STANDARD MS Word dictionary, a common language like GERMAN should be included as well. Why do I have to pay extra ($79.95 LIST) for an overly comprehensive dictionary that includes every obscure language, script, and dialect in the world to get a single common language like German? This sems discriminatory!

Overall MS "Proofing Tools" seems to be a good package, but I feel GOUGED at what I have to pay to get a single additional COMMON language. It would be better if only English was standard in MS Word and if, with each Word license, a buyer could get a free download of one or two common languages of the buyer's choice.

This software adds some very useful foreign-language proofing tools to MS Office. I use it for Korean and am very happy with it.

This is not a great product for Arabic. Microsoft brags that its "Translation Dictionary" for Arabic, included in the software, includes a database of 450,000 words culled from all the major dictionaries out there. But if you try to enter in a semantic grouping of two or more words, such as a verb plus a preposition, you usually get "no entry found." This problem also applies to words that are inflected in any way. Also, the voweling is not included. No voweling , inflections, or verbal phrases!?! DO NOT BUY THIS for Arabic, EVEN if it is your only choice....I am bilingual in Chinese. In all fairness, the conversion tools for characters are useful, but as for the dictionary, the Taiwanese Ministry of Education, Dr. Eye and Jinshanci offer FREE dictionaries that are more useful than this costly one by Microsoft. If you are from Microsoft: 1) please give us a browsable dictionary, 2) include the Arabic vowelling! 3) fire your current Arabists and hire someone better! I feel cheated! For Arabic I wish I could give this an even lower rating. For Chinese and Korean it probably deserves a positive 3 or 4, not higher because there are free or less expensive products that contain many of this products' features and are of better quality. If you are going to charge us $70, make the product good, please. Consumers: BE WARNED!

Microsoft Proofing Tools for Office 2003 allows spell-checking in over 50 different languages. I purchased for Thai & have had no problems. Proofing Tools is married to the MSO version, so this product will not work for Office 2000. Additionally, Microsoft has changed its approach with Office 2007: For about $25, you can buy a language-specific Proofing Tools; alternatively, you can get the entire set for about $200.

spell check is good; however, the grammar check is quite poor. There seems to be some problem with the article and adjective check. It rarely offers the correct correction for either.

It was a big to me, because English was not one of my greatest subject and it is a big help to me. I Highly recommend this product for your computer.

I had to replace the purchase - cd-rom had read-on errors and didn't load properly. I filed the request online and get my replacement disk the very next day, no questions asked. Great service Amazon. Keep up good work!!!!!

I ordered the 2003 Proofing Tools on the 18th, free shipping. On the 19th I decided I needed it ASAP (and I couldn't update my Amazon order) but it didn't ship until the 22nd. It arrived on the 27th (on schedule) and I found it doesn't work with Word 2002.
So, I tried to order the upgrade to Word for 2003 and may have found someone that wasn't sold out after the third try. (Overnite delivery) I can not find the proofing tool for Word 2002, so this has cost me close to $200 so far.
I still haven't used the product, but the experience has given me a great headache.