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In article <1993Jan6.133241.1@ulkyvx.louisville.edu>, jnsims01@ulkyvx.louisville.edu writes...
>Why is it that Microsoft Word and Excel do not or cannot use the same spell
>checking utility and main dictionary? Why don't they use the same Help
>facilities? Am I missing something here, or am I doomed to duplicate more than
>a megabyte of disk-consuming junk? ...

The Word dictionary and spell checker are much bigger and more thorough than 
the one for Excel. Naturally, a spreadsheet hasn't the same need for a big 
dictionary as a word processor.  At a guess, one of the following (or maybe 
both) is/are true: 1) Since Excel doesn't need as big a dictionary, etc, MS has 
provided a small one, for those who aren't using Word, to save the diskspace. 
Since this means a huge waste of disk space for those using both, who I would 
guess are the majority-- 2) The Word spell checker (and maybe the dictionary)
have been leased from another company, and MS doesn't want to pay the lease fee
for Excel, which doesn't need it. 

Then there's PowerPoint. The installer loads MS Graph and the Equation Editor
and some converters into a folder in  Extensions. The identical files are
loaded by Word into the Word folder. Why couldn't MS be consistent, and avoid
this duplication? There's over 1 MB of stuff involved, I think. I haven't
checked yet to see if PP has supplied still a third dictionary and spell
checker (but I think it shares those with Excel, at least). 

Susan Kayser		NCF::KAYSER  or  kayser@nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov
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