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Is there an anagram tool for unscrambling words?
I have office 2003. From a class long ago in office 97, I seem to remember
that there was a way to enter a scrambled word or a word with missing letters, and Word would offer suggestions based on the position of the letters I did have. For example, if it typed H**P, Word would show HELP, HEAP HARP, etc, as the possible words I needed. The teacher also said that it was possible for Word to unscramble letters and offer possible combinations of mixed up letters, very much like SpellCheck. But I can't find either of these features in Word today. And I don't remember ever using it beyond those classes. Now I have a need. Am I dreaming? Or did Word do this kind of search? Use my new e-mail address: Thank you. |
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Is there an anagram tool for unscrambling words?
This was never available as a direct feature of Word. Internally, Word's
spelling checker had an anagram function: you gave it a list of letters and it returned all words in its dictionary comprising those letters. You needed a macro to use it. But this is history, anyway. The feature was removed sometime post-97. "John A. Turek Jr." John A. Turek wrote in message ... I have office 2003. From a class long ago in office 97, I seem to remember that there was a way to enter a scrambled word or a word with missing letters, and Word would offer suggestions based on the position of the letters I did have. For example, if it typed H**P, Word would show HELP, HEAP HARP, etc, as the possible words I needed. The teacher also said that it was possible for Word to unscramble letters and offer possible combinations of mixed up letters, very much like SpellCheck. But I can't find either of these features in Word today. And I don't remember ever using it beyond those classes. Now I have a need. Am I dreaming? Or did Word do this kind of search? Use my new e-mail address: Thank you. |
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Is there an anagram tool for unscrambling words?
Thank you for your reply. I knew I wasn't crazy. I guess that is why the
feature was removed. This is the first time in 8 years that I could have used it. Thanks again. "Jezebel" wrote: This was never available as a direct feature of Word. Internally, Word's spelling checker had an anagram function: you gave it a list of letters and it returned all words in its dictionary comprising those letters. You needed a macro to use it. But this is history, anyway. The feature was removed sometime post-97. |
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