Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary

Editorial Review:

With Random House Webster's Dictionary gives you a complete reference tool to help you master the English language!

Customer Reviews:

Avg. Customer Rating: 3.0 / 5.0

Could be better, but it does work with MS Word:

Definitions not as subtantive as I was expecting. However, the program intergrates well with my MS on 2000 O/S and XP Platform. I believe some are having problems because they may not be following the wizard closely and downing loading those specified files into the "START" file of the Word program.

The poorest excuse for a dictionary:

My excitment went vanished merely five minutes after installing this software. And I immediately uninstalled it and tossed the CD's into the trash bin without a second thought. One gets the idea who much aversion this thing incurred in me.
Before the purchase of this title, I had been using a very old CD Rom version of the American Heritage Dictionary for five years. And during that fives years, I made great use of it for the contents were no tenuous matter. However, one must say that the features of... more info

Not compatable with other apps.:

The biggest let down is that you can't access the dictionary from any other programs or the web. The company claims it integrates with ms word, but I just receive errors when it tries to work with ms word. Also, you can't paste a word you want to look up into the search box you have to type it in instead -which takes more time. The definitions are shorter than I was expecting. I do not recommend this product.

Does not play well with MS-Word:

I really bought this CD to complement MS-Word that does not have a dictionary. I installed the program to a Win98 machine that has Word 97. It managed to place a button to the Word toolbar. The very first time that button is pressed, it displays an error message but launches the application and works fine. Then, I uninstalled it, and, installed it to my Win XP machine with office XP. This time it was a complete failure: no buttons or access to the application from MS-Word. As a conclusion, this is a fine... more info

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