Customer Reviews

Word Menu 2.2

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This is a very comprehensive resource of categorised words and their meanings, which is easily navigated and understood. Loaded onto a laptop, one has a lot of power easily to hand.

The Fractal Browser looks like a good idea and would be a visually attractive feature for school kids. But I would have been happy to ditch this feature in place of having a standard dictionary browsing option outside of the categorised options, and still retain links to the corresponding categories. Another aspect of the Fractal Browser is that the links are images with quite fine text. This doesn't respond to the browser `Text Size' selector in Explorer. So monitors set at higher resolutions than 800 x 600 will be problematic for users with less than good eyesight. Users of IBM Thinkpads will not be able to get around this. This is also a problem with respect to the category tree.

(P.S. 22/09/2004: IBM Thinkpad users can get around this problem by right clicking on their desktop, and then left clicking on the Appearance tab, and selecting one of the Windows, Scheme options with larger GUI attributes. This however, may clash with other applications, which need a higher than 800x 600 resolution to allow the use of some of their property sheets/dialog boxes. Many recent applications are now optimised for 1024 x 768 and higher.)


A good product in principle and at a very reasonable price, but falls a little bit short in the overall design, with too much attention to the deluxe features, I think.

Searching for words is straightforward and the history feature is useful, but if you aren't sure of a word's spelling it can be tedious to find it, by trial and error, unless you know its category and go manually browsing for it. Google smarts would be useful here, and worth a few dollars more.

Word Menu 2.2 offers quickly accessible words, however the defintions are vague and indirect. Many words you would expect to find are missing, and frankly this is a program that would be most useful for people learning the english language,seeking to understand genres which certain words pertain to. It is my opinion that most english speakers already have a strong grasp on most of these words and subjects they entail; buying this for any trivial benefit of searching words by subjects, is foolhardy. It's not worth 30 dollars, I wish I would not have purchased it and do not reccomend it. If the price was 15 dollars or less, I would suggest "hey why not". $30 is an unreasonable price for this simplistic vocabulary lexicon and is more wisely spent on something else.

It's amazing! A real partner if you like the sound and taste of the words and definitions; The Fractal Browser help to see the word in its context, that is just one the top features. Writers, screenwriters, language lovers, scholars, will love it. BUT... the software has a bug when you install it in the Spanish Versions of Windows XP and Windows NT: The Split Results View doesn't appears.

I would recommend this product for kids, middle school age maybe, but not for anyone looking for a real thesaurus to use with their computer. It will bring up a few interesting alternatives for any given word, but misses many of the most obvious ones. It's not very useful.

This software is garbage. After the install, it asks that you restart your system. Then when you click on the shortcut on the desktop after the restart, the whole machine goes black and the systems recovers from a "serious error" Needless to say it was unistalled immediately. Save your money and use an internet dictionary or thesaurus.

"Word Menu 2.2" is an amazing and fun program to use. It allows even the smartest of writers to express themselves with more accuracy, fluidity, and creativeness -- it makes one's writing look more intelligent. "Word Menu's" interface is actually fun to use and simple to maneuver around while looking for that perfect word. Every writer or wordsmith should own a copy of this invaluable program.

This program was given away by The Writers Store as a free reward for purchasing another program.

You get what you pay for, which in this case is less than zero.

This piece of garbage appears to install, but when you try to load it, a message says that the software could not find the required user interface DLL -- please reinstall the software and try again. Try again, guess what happens.

I asked the Writers Store if they could replace it with another free giveaway, but they refused, and suggested calling the software company, WriteBrothers. They were closed. And I'm not going to bother calling back tomorrow.

This appears to be a very old program, and I'm running a Windows7 environment. At this point in the evolution of technology, if someone manufactures a product which doesn't run properly in the current version of Windows, they shouldn't be selling it -- or even giving it away.

Thanks, Writers Store, for a free giveaway which did nothing but waste my time. Next time I buy my merchandise from Amazon, where many of the products cost $.01 more, but springing for that extra penny can make all the difference.