MS WORD 97 - Thesaurus

[floydman80]

MS WORD 97 - Thesaurus
My thesaurus doesn't work. MS Support has a
fix that involves using regedit (Q236394)
- I am not comfortable using that tool yet. Anyone hear of a simpler or less risky result?

 

[Mosaic1]

Does the article describe your exact problem? Could you please post what is happening?
If that's the fix, someone will be able to help you.

 

[Mosaic1]

I have Word97. I went and read that article and made you a registry file as described in method 1 so you can try it if you like.
Copy the bold to notepad. Save as fix.reg Double click on it to enter into the registry.

REGEDIT4

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Proofing Tools\Thesaurus\1033\Normal]

"Dictionary"="C:\\Program Files\\Common Files\\Microsoft Shared\\Proof\\msthbus.lex"

 

[floydman80]

Mosaic1
Sorry this took so long - I was cleaning up a neghbor's PC that hadn't updated their virus files since 1998 - what a mess.
First thanks for instructions and making the file. I'm excited about fixing this problem.

Couple of questions - I am not a registry fix it person - so
1: you said copy bold text - REGEDIT4 is part of that bold - is that on purpose (excuse my lack of knowledge here)
2: when I copy and paste into Notepad, the key corrections are offet to the right, rather than left justified. Is this an issue - easily correctable, but I just want to be sure I don't screw the registry up
3: what is the registryfilename so I can back it up - and how to restore if needed - DOS?

Floyd

 

[tsuji]

Hello, floydman80.

This is what you can do.

[1] Restart your system to Command Prompt.
[2] At command prompt, enter the command:
scanreg /backup <hard enter>
[3] Restart your system normal.
[4] Make out a text file with extension .reg. The extension reg is a rigid requirement. You can call the file anything you like, such as fix.reg or thesaurus.reg or alike. The location of it is arbitrary. It is up to you. You can place it at c:\ for instance.
[5] Copy and paste the content below to the .reg file in question.

;----below this line----
REGEDIT4

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Proofing Tools\Thesaurus\1033\Normal]
&quot;Dictionary&quot;=&quot;C:\\Program Files\\Common Files\\Microsoft Shared\\Proof\\msthbus.lex&quot;

;----above this line----
Notes :
line 1 is colored green
line 2 is empty, just a line break
line 3 is colored brown. If there is an apparent line break, it is only because there is of a blank space between the alphabets. It should on one single line.
line 4 is colored blue
line 5 is empty
Each line ends with a carriage return that is a hard enter if editing by hand, in particular the line 4.

[5] Double-click on the .reg file. And there would be two pop up messages. Accept the first. Note the second, it usually means successfully merged with the registry.

[6] If you want to restore the whole registry in case you don't like the result. Repeat the [1] and [2], only this time issue the command :
scanreg /restore <hard enter>
Then select the date of your backup, that is today.

regards - tsuji