Different language Spell checker in Office v.X

[Fabsmartins]

Hello,
i was wondering if anyone has any ideas....

i have to write many texts in Potuguese and neither Office 2001 no v.X have speel checkers/ dictionaries for Portuguese and its variations.

Yet, Office 98 had a version of Porrtuguese. I was wondering if there is a way of fooling office. I was wondering if i could copy (maybe hexedit) the contents of the Portuguese in Office 98 and place it in , say, Elgish (Aus).

My spelling is attrotious and that would really save me a lot of time. as it is i have to boot classic and then run through office 98 to check my spelling

well, thank you in advance for the help,

cheers,
fabs

[mervTormel]

hmmmm. probably not.

if you proceed with this endeavor, you'll have to compare the two dictionaries very closely to see if they're the same format, or similar.

also, you could squeal loudly to Microsoft about this.

[celta]

Just the same problem.
Thanks to the Mac OS X community for any HELP.

[marcv]

I was looking for this too. I found the following workarounds:
1) Excalibur. Doesn't integrate into Office, but can check the clipboard. Has a very good Portuguese dictionary.
Uses also wordservices, so it can function integrated in apps like eudora and text-edit plus. http://www.eg.bucknell.edu/~excalibr/excalibur.html

2) (not working yet for portuguese): ObjectFarmSpell is a Cocoafrontend for iSpell which is a UNIX spellchecker, iSpell supports MANY languages, but only a few are working in the current beta of ObjectfarmSpell. This integrates into the Spelling found in CocoaApps like Mail, TextEdit, OkitoComposer etc. Not in Office or AW6.
http://www.objectfarm.org/objectfarmspell

hope this helps marc