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License:
Free to try; $19.99 to buy
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Not rated
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Downloads:
1,478
- Requirements:
Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003 Server/Vista, Microsoft Word 2000
- Limitations:
Non-commercial use
- Date Added:
April 23, 2008
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Publisher's description of Natural Word from Software Theories
Natural Word allows you to command Microsoft Word using your own words. Finally, make Word do what you want it to do without memorizing cryptic menus, toolbars, or command syntax. Simply type in what you want, using your own words. Natural Word integrates seamlessly into Word. When editing a document, press the command key (` or ~). A prompt will appear - type in what you want in your own words, press enter, and watch it happen.
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Version: Natural Word from Software Theories 1.0
"Fabulous product! Makes Word so much easier to use"
Pros: This is a wonderful product! It's worth the download, its free (for home use), and requires virtually no training.
It lets you work in Word without worrying about how to do things. It's hidden - completely out of the way - until you need it. It's amazing how much time is spent searching for commands, and how much it interrupts your work. You don't realize it until you don't have to do it.
There are all sorts of commands that are much faster to type - like 'blue', or 'arial', or '0.5 indent', rather than searching through color wheels, font lists, or trying to be precise with the mouse on the ruler. It also lets you do some things easily, like inserting symbols from the symbol table (e.g. type 'alpha' to insert the alpha symbol, or 'e /' to get e with accent aigue) - these are a complete chore without it.
This thing is not for complicated commands - that's not the point - it's for letting you do every day things easily. If you know the shortcut for underline, use the shortcut. But, if you don't know how to do something - like, you have 2 columns of text and you want to end them - did you know you had to insert a 'section break' to end the columns? I didn't - but I didn't have to - I just typed 'end columns'.
That is its strength - you don't have to memorize what the commands are - you just type in what you think it should be, and it understands you! You can break it - but that's not the point - it surprisingly good when you are trying to be understood.
This is a wonderful product - it's unintrusive, free (for home use), and makes computers easier to use.
Cons: Some of the less used features of Word are not supported.
It would be nice for the product to suggest commands if it couldn't understand you.
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