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December 19th, 2005 18:00

inability to generate thesaurus supposed to be bundled in Dell/Windows XP

My Dell Desktop came with Windows XP (home edition) software originally bundled into the computer. I am now beginning a career in writing and tried to access the Thesaurus feature that is supposed to be in XP.  I have followed the Instructions I got through office assistant to generate the Thesaurus, but reached a dead end when I tried to “reinstall” the thesaurus (at the suggestion of Microsoft, who provided a web site destination to obtain a free download.  What do I do now?

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December 19th, 2005 18:00

The thesaurus is not part of Windows but MS Office. Did you get MS Office with your computer?

By the way, this font is very small.

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December 19th, 2005 19:00

Leeander,

The thesaurus should be available to you through Tools|Language in Word or through Shift+F7 with your selected word highlighted. Does it appear there?

What was the URL Microsoft referred you to?

Message Edited by Denny Denham on 12-19-2005 01:41 PM

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December 20th, 2005 00:00

To: Denny Denham (Diamond):
Thanks for the help--it worked fine! I didn't need to go the Microsoft URL route after all!
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