On Monday 25 April 2005 04:08, David Smith wrote:
> I just started a study-at-home course in Medical Transcription. Included
> in the study materials is the (rather huge) Dorland Illustrated Medical
> Dictionary. That in turn included a free Medical Spellchecker -- handy to
> have in my future profession.
>
> Upon starting the install, I noted that it expects to be installed to
> MSOffice or MSWord, probably somehow hooking into the existing spell-
> checking functionality -- how, I don't know. Since I don't know how such
> things work, I was curious if there was a close enough relationship
> between MSO & OOo's handling of such that it might be made to work with
> the latter, also, in some fairly straightforward fashion.
>
> I didn't get much of a look at the program, since I quit the install when
> I realized how program-specific it appears to be. Would be nice to have,
> as I said, but at this point, I'm planning on sticking with OOo unless it
> becomes obvious OOo simply won't work for my needs for some reason. And
> if this spellchecker won't work with OOo, I'd forgo the spellchecker for
> the moment.
>
> I realize nobody's liable to have direct knowledge of this particular
> product, but in general terms, how likely is it that it could be made to
> work?
It really depends on the format of the dictionary. You could ask on
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