Microsoft Word 2003 French grammar checker not as good as Word 98/2000?   

Hi,

One of users in our organization is complaining that the French grammar
checking feature in Word 2003 is not as good as it used to be in Word
98 and Word 2000. Is it true? She thinks that Word 2003 doesn't pick up
the obvious french grammatical errors. In the older versions the
grammar checker would pick up on lack of agreement between/among verbs
in the same sentence or even paragraphs, such as "I sit and he sat at
the table together." It does not pick up these and other glaring
errors such as on run-on sentences, fragments, etc. (in French).
I have downloaded and installed all the latest updates from Mircosoft
office update site. It didn't help.  According to this user, in the
following sentence in French it doesn't put the red underline for "de"
and "les". The sentence she typed on Word 2003 (the language is set to
French) was : Voici de francais que est mal ecris pur faires les test.
The Word 2003 underlined francais, ecris and faires (indicating
errors/suggestions), but not de and les. According to this user the
previous versions of Word used to catch all these errors. Any
information/pointer to the right source for more information from the
experienced users of French grammar checking feature is highly
appreciated.

RS

date: 9 May 2006 14:26:46 -0700   author:   unknown

Re: Microsoft Word 2003 French grammar checker not as good as Word 98/2000?   

Hi Kadar2001@yahoo.com, 

I recommend you post this in a French-speaking newsgroup, as the folks in 
those groups are more likely to have experience with this. 
microsoft.public.fr.word

> One of users in our organization is complaining that the French grammar
> checking feature in Word 2003 is not as good as it used to be in Word
> 98 and Word 2000. Is it true? She thinks that Word 2003 doesn't pick up
> the obvious french grammatical errors. In the older versions the
> grammar checker would pick up on lack of agreement between/among verbs
> in the same sentence or even paragraphs, such as "I sit and he sat at
> the table together." It does not pick up these and other glaring
> errors such as on run-on sentences, fragments, etc. (in French).
> I have downloaded and installed all the latest updates from Mircosoft
> office update site. It didn't help.  According to this user, in the
> following sentence in French it doesn't put the red underline for "de"
> and "les". The sentence she typed on Word 2003 (the language is set to
> French) was : Voici de francais que est mal ecris pur faires les test.
> The Word 2003 underlined francais, ecris and faires (indicating
> errors/suggestions), but not de and les. According to this user the
> previous versions of Word used to catch all these errors. Any
> information/pointer to the right source for more information from the
> experienced users of French grammar checking feature is highly
> appreciated.
>

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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date: Wed, 10 May 2006 12:00:17 +0200   author:   Cindy M -WordMVP-