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System Requirements
- Platform: Windows NT / 98 / 2000 / Me / XP
- Media: CD-ROM
- Item Quantity: 1
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Product Features
- Instant access from Internet Explorer or your Windows application
- Alternatives are instantly displayed in a pop-up window
- Useful replace function
- Over 450 lists provide information on a vast range of subjects
- Over 150 notes help you make the right choice between easily confused words
- Runs in the background
- Can easily be integrated with other Oxford products.
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Manufacturer's Description
Offering comprehensive and authoritative coverage of current English, the New Oxford Thesaurus of English is an ideal reference tool for use at home, school, and the office. Containing over 600,000 alternative and opposite words, this program will enrich your creative writing, essays, or letters, or simply your enjoyment of the English language.Instant access from Internet Explorer or your Windows application. Simply double-click a word on your Web page or in your chosen Windows application such as Word or Excel or even Outlook, and alternatives are instantly displayed in a pop-up window. A key word helps you pinpoint the right group, and the closest and most useful alternatives are given first. Useful Replace function. Writing a letter or essay and can't think of the right word? Type in a similar word, double-click on it, select the appropriate alternative from the entry, and then use the Replace function to swap it straight over into your work. From fossils to phobias, and actors to amphibians - over 450 lists provide information on a vast range of subjects. Militate or mitigate, inherent or intrinsic? Over 150 notes help you make the right choice between easily confused words. No fuss and no waiting. The New Oxford Thesaurus of English automatically installs on your hard drive and runs in the background ready for whenever you need it. Can be easily integrated with the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, the Concise Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary, the Concise Oxford-Duden German Dictionary, and the Concise Oxford Spanish Dictionary.
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25 of 26 people found the following review helpful
This thesaurus may be good. Possibly. But the software is such utter rubbish that it's virtually unusuable. One example (of many): the wretched thing pops up when you double-click a word and you are taken off into its (unreadable) pop-up field. Perhaps someone should have told the programmers that double-clicking words is used for other things on most computer set-ups. Such as selecting words to move or delete them. Which you are now no longer able to do.
A few years ago I got free with some magazine a thing called the Oxford Compendium. It included a good thesaurus. The thesaurus was easy to use and worked properly. Unfortunately, it doesn't run under XP. So I bought this new one. And it's rubbish.
Shame on whoever produced it!
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
The ifinger pop-up software is utter rubbish and it doesn't work with Vista, the makers of the software have not released a Vista update and the OUP has no intention of publishing this thesaurus in an adult software program - what a shame!
Here is an excerpt from a message I received from OUP:
"I'm sorry to say that we don't know when iFinger are planning to release a Windows Vista-compatible version of their software engine. If you have registered with them for updates (via their web site) then you should be notified.
I'm also sorry to say that we don't have plans to develop new CD-ROM versions of the Dictionary of Quotations and/or Thesaurus at this stage."
Here is an excerpt from a message I received from OUP:
"I'm sorry to say that we don't know when iFinger are planning to release a Windows Vista-compatible version of their software engine. If you have registered with them for updates (via their web site) then you should be notified.
I'm also sorry to say that we don't have plans to develop new CD-ROM versions of the Dictionary of Quotations and/or Thesaurus at this stage."
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
The actual thesaurus is excellent; easier to use (though not as interesting or as comprehensive as) Roget's and therefore ideal when you want to find an alternative word quickly. The CD-ROM, however, leaves a lot to be desired. Not only is it often infuriating to use, as outlined by other reviewers; but if you upgrade to Windows Vista the only way you can get it to run is to fork out twenty euros for the latest version of ifinger, the search engine used by the thesaurus. Stick with the paper version; it will last a lifetime.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Use the old Oxforf Thesaurus
Yes it is rubbish
To use the win98 Oxford Thesaurus on my win XP, do what I did out of desperation:- merely copy the win 98 CD contents to directory C:\OTS and then use... Read more
To use the win98 Oxford Thesaurus on my win XP, do what I did out of desperation:- merely copy the win 98 CD contents to directory C:\OTS and then use... Read more
Published on 26 Nov 2009 by George Whiston
Operating System
The problem is that this product does not load into a Windows operating system more advanced than XP. Read more
Published on 6 Oct 2009 by Alyia Max
Useless rubbish!
In several decades of computing this is the most useless piece of software and worst-behaved install it has been my misfortune to encounter. Read more
Published on 8 Jan 2008 by Translator
Paltry and basic.
Yes, I agree with the reviewer above: it's such a pity that the Oxford Complex/Compendium Thesaurus doesn't run under XP. Read more
Published on 6 July 2006 by Word Smith
Enhance/Empower
This is a must for the ambitious writer who cannot find a satisfactory word for what they are expressing. Read more
Published on 17 Feb 2006 by Mark Dickens
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