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.

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
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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.

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.

[james smith]

Originally Posted by John A. Turek Jr.

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.

I generally seek Google to find such kind of tools. Why don't you try https://wordmaker.info/ to unscramble words easily.