Labels:violet | magenta | screenshot | colorfulness | lilac OCR: The American Heritage Dictionary - Windows Edition by Tony Curro This program is made by a subsidiary of WordStar. It contains both dictionary and a thesaurus. It also contains several other features that set it apart from the others. The American Heritage Dictionary (AHD), comes with both 3.5" and 5.25" disks. You will need at least 1MB RAM and 3MB of hard disk space to install it. For the Windows edition you will also need Windows 3.0 or higher. It also comes with a 60 day money-back guarantee. As with most programs for Windows, you install the disk in either B :, start Windows, and run the INSTALL program from the floppy. llation takes several minutes. AHD will ask if you wish it to set f up so it will automatically start each time you run Windows. This is d idea, as it will always be ready for you. It does install itself in op left button. You just click on it and select AHD from there. AHD works with all programs that use Windows. For programs like Ami, Ami Pro, MS Word for Windows and WordPerfect, there is a special README file. This explains how to set AHD up with them. These programs allow AHD to be installed directly into them, and can be accessed directly from their tools or utilities menu. For the other programs like: Excel, PageMaker, Write, and WordStar, there are several steps to follow: (1) Highlight word (2) Copy to Clipboard (3) Click the button to get AHD (4) Check your word. (5) If you want to change it, from the AHD menu you select COPY . (6) Go back into your application and select PASTE, and the word is changed. I have spoken to several people about similar products, and they all work in a like manner. To me this seems like too much work. Too many steps. It is not the fault of the program, but rather of the environment. Hopefully, we will see changes made in Windows in the future, where this will be eliminated. And people say DOS is hard !!!! AHD also has a thesaurus. You can activate ANY of the functions of AHD, by just clicking on it in the menu. Once you have it up, you can search for a definition or a synonym, without having even having the word in your document. AHD also comes with a few other little features that will be of help to some, while others may not use them all. The other features include a crossword helper, anagram helper, and WordHunter. I will take each in urn. ROSSWORD HELPER If you are a crossword puzzle buff, as I am, this is for you. Have you ever gotten hung up on a word? Of course you have. AHD can help jou here also. Say you have a clue t easure of time. It is a 6-letter word that has the letters MI-U --. Bring up AHD, and click on 6-letter word that has the letters MI-U --. Bring up AHD, and click on XWORD. It awaits your input. This can do a wildcard search. Enter MI* and KWORD. It awaits your input. This can do a wildcard search. Enter MI* and press RETURN. You are presented with words that contain less or more that press RETURN. You are presented with words that contain less or more that 6-letters. This gives you 102 words that starts with MI. Is there an easier 6-letters. This gives you 102 words that starts with MI. Is there an easier way? Yes! AHD also uses the ? as a wild card with one exception. While the asterisk signifies ANY number of characters, the question mark represents a single character. So if you enter MI?U ??, you will be presented with only the 6-letter words that contain the above letters. You only see three words. The middle word sounds right, minute. You click on it, and you see the definition pop up on the left of the screen. The definition: A unit of time equal ..., seems to fit right in with our earlier clue. ANAGRAMS This is good for you anagram or Jumble fans out there. You enter a group of scrambled letters, and it will spout out words that make sense. There is an option whereby you can select how many letters you want each word to be. So rather than seeing many 2 and 3-letter words, you can start at 4 or 5 if you wish. I chose the 4-letter option. I entered the letters SNIG. Anagrams returned: SIGN, SING, GINS. You can even use this for Scrabble. Enter the 7-letters you have in your rack, and the program will find words you can use. Is this legal? Maybe against the computer, as I don't think the computer would mind. ORDHUNTER WordHunter is a dictionary, an information finder, and much more. t is hard to describe. You are thinking of an Eskimo home. You cannot recall what it is called. WordHunter can. You is mad of snow. You type in SNOW, and WordHunter will return 36 w e of them is Igloo, which, when you click on it, has the definitic kimo house. WH can also use operators like: AND, OR, and NOT. Yo ould type different things to get some ideas. You can use more than one rator on the line. Typing something like: gold AND silver NOT currency, 11 return 6 words. Typing gold AND silver alone will return 7, one of wl h describes the process of using gold and silver in currency. Another feature of WordHunter is a list of categories. Clicking on it will drop down a menu, that has many choices. You can search for words from a variety of areas. Several of them include: Regional : Southern, Usage : Military, Greek, Law, Mythology, Judaism, Hockey and so on. For example searching under words relating to Greek, you will find Adonis. This a very useful feature if like to dabble in words. ords to use for almost any ect; and, like all the oth gram, you can get nitions of the words. Overall, I was impressed with the features of this package. The only drawback I have is the steps involved in changing a word. It would seem easier to me, to check the spelling, and do the changes manually. Product Information | The American Heritage Dictionary Windows Edition List Price: $99.00 The Writing Tools Group of WordStar International, Inc. One Harbor Drive Suite 111 Sausalito, CA 94965 800 227-5609
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