Intellisense in Word?

Posted By: Dr Herbie | Oct 19th @ 12:28 AM
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#Oct 19th @ 12:28 AM
Dr Herbie
Dr Herbie
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I was just working away in Visual Studio when I eralised how much I depend on Intellisense to complete my typing for me.  Then I thought -- I wonder how long until PCs are powerful enough to use intellisense in Word?  Word could show a dropdown list of all words matching the characters typed so far -- as you type the letter 'a' Word will show all words in its dictionary starting with 'a' and as you type is narrows the list.  Fewer keystrokes, fewer spelling mistakes.

 

Hmmm. Tongue Out

 

 

Herbie

 

#Oct 19th @ 12:42 AM
Sven Groot
Sven Groot
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Isn't this what Windows Mobile does?

#Oct 19th @ 12:59 AM
Dr Herbie
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I don't have Windows Mobile -- how big is it's dictionary?

 

Herbie

 

#Oct 19th @ 1:30 AM
kettch
kettch

I'm not sure how big the dictionary is, I hardly ever use that feature. It seems fairly complete, and it does learn from your spelling and grammatical habits to a certain extent. It might be ok if you are using a soft-keyboard, but taking thumbs off of the hardware keyboard doesn't work. The only time I pay it any attention is when it predicts a phrase or sentence that I need. Then it's worth the extra effort to select it.

 

For the most part, my typing speed on the desktop is sufficient that using such a feature would result in a net reduction of efficiency.

 

Granted, it would be useful for hard to spell words, but many common typo's are already auto-corrected. I do use autocorrect for a few simple things like transforming a small text tag into a large predefined snippet. Hmmm...Visual Studio style snippets might be cool for things like inserting an address. Of course, I would like to see Windows, or at least Office, implement some kind of microformats system.

#Oct 19th @ 5:49 AM
obrienslalom
obrienslalom
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Open Office does this.  The only problem is that it is (or 'was'...last time i used it, maybe 3 years ago) based on words you have already typed in the document.  It made me realize how many times I was reusing the same words.

 

Either way, I didn't like it at all.  I rarely stare at the screen when typing in Word.  I'd rather have my ideas flow, rather than having them diverge based on new words always being tossed in my face.

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