We would like to know if MS Word 2002 dictionary can be used to look up the
meanings of words or is there a third party dictionary that works with Word
that would allow us to look up word meanings and also a thesaurus.

Word 2002 *has* a thesaurus. Click on the word in question and press
Shift+F7.

Word used to work with MS Bookshelf, but I'm not aware if that product still
exists and/or is integrated with Office. In Word 2003, you can right-click a
word and choose Look Up, which is what you're looking for. Unfortunately...
you're using Word 2002.

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We would like to know if MS Word 2002 dictionary can be used to look up
the
meanings of words or is there a third party dictionary that works with
Word
that would allow us to look up word meanings and also a thesaurus.