Hi Bernard
To my knowledge and the feedback I've received, the Italian spellchecker in
Word is unreliable as some of the spellings are dubious and so maybe not
appropriate to someone studying at degree level who needs quite a bit of
language support.
Pat
Support Officer (Deaf/Hard-of-Hearing Students)
Student Services Welfare
University of Brighton
Tithe Barn
Mouslecoomb Place
01273 642887 (V)
01273 683552 (M)
01273 642622 (F)
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> From: Bernard Doherty[SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Reply To: Discussion list for disabled students and their support
> staff.
> Sent: Monday, January 27, 2003 3:13 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Italian spellchecker ? - Urgently needed.
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> As a matter of interest, what's the skinny on Word in Italian? It no go
> or what? I'd assumed that when you loaded the vocab and the rest, set
> the language (and changed the keyboard layout, if you were feeling
> daring), it would be as good (or bad) as the English version. Are you
> suggesting something about MS is ungood?
>
> Regards, Bernard
>
> On Mon, 27 Jan 2003 13:56:43 +0000 BRYAN JONES <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
> > The Franklin Bookman range of spellcheckers. The Bookman has
> > a range of different ROM cartridges available that can inserted to
> > change the language. They do Italian, as far as I know.
> >
> > On 27 Jan 03, at 10:11, [log in to unmask] wrote:
> >
> > > Hi all
> > >
> > > Does anyone know of a good Italian spellchecker (as opposed to
> > > the
> > > one available in Word) which is PC compatible? I know that Icontech
> > > supply one for the MAC. This would be for a student currently
> > > studying in Italy - so I am also concerned about problems with
> > > customs. does anyone also have any experience of sending software
> > > abroad through the mail?
> > >
> > > Many thanks in anticipation
> >
> >
> > Bryan Jones
> > Disability Support Services Manager
> > Tel: 020 8411 5367
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> Bernard Doherty
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> Tel: 01223 363271 x2534
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