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Software : New Oxford Thesaurus of English

from: Focus Multimedia Ltd


Binding: CD-ROM Brand: Focus Multimedia Ltd EAN: 5031366015303 Label: Focus Multimedia Ltd Manufacturer: Focus Multimedia Ltd Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Focus Multimedia Ltd Release Date: October 29, 2004 Sales Rank: 1456 Studio: Focus Multimedia Ltd	Average Rating: List Price: £9.99 Amazon.co.uk's Price: £7.98 You Save: £2.01 (20%) Prices subject to change.
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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.

Key Features:

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.

Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- Not the standard one expects from Oxford
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; ... Read More

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- 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. I bought it as an upgrade to the previous version, which was supposed not to work under my new XP system (it can in fact be persuaded to work under XP by copying any missing files manually and using the Compatibility function in the program's Properties).

When the iFinger install fails to complete it cannot even be halted in the Windows Task Manager! ... Read More

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- great content, rubbish software
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 ... Read More

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- 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. Even it was not comprehensive, but it did have an adult quality about it. This new pop-up version is juvenile, paltry, and just too basic. It may appeal to some because it reduces the language to something easy . . . but in fact the English language is incredibly rich and diverse . . . and this thesaurus does not reflect this fact.

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- Useless
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 ... Read More

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