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Lookup and spell check using WordWeb dictionary/thesaurus

Tuesday, November 13, 2007 9:03:54 AM

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Download WordWeb dictionary/thesaurus (size < 7.5 MB) and install it.

If you don't know how to edit menu setup see this. Add the following under [Edit Widget Popup Menu] & [Hotclick Popup Menu]. 

Item, WordWeb = Copy & Execute program, "C:\Program Files\WordWeb\wwnotray.exe"

You can spell check only one word at a time. If you have administrator privileges, install Aspell. See Spell-checking With Opera.

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Joel Nothmanmoo Tuesday, November 13, 2007 12:53:44 PM

http://operawatch.com/news/2007/03/ajax-spell-checker-in-opera.html is also a good option, although it can't be used in email composition...

BleedingHeart Tuesday, November 13, 2007 1:35:33 PM

Word Source (Online) provides spelling correction, dictionary and Thesaurus
Item, Definition            = Copy,,,,"Search" & New page & Go to page, "http://word.sc/%c"

Kdict + Moby Thesaurus + Wordnet will provide all of the above for Linux (kdict on its own still gives you the spelling correction and definition)
Item, Definition            = Copy & Execute program, "kdict %c "


Tamil Tuesday, November 13, 2007 2:49:39 PM

Originally posted by moo:

http://operawatch.com/news/2007/03/ajax-spell-checker-in-opera.html is also a good option, although it can't be used in email composition...

http://my.opera.com/community/forums/findpost.pl?id=1965355

Asgeirmisund007 Saturday, December 15, 2007 11:46:11 AM

Merry Christmas

John BarnettJohn164 Monday, July 7, 2008 7:36:01 AM

Hi Tamil, This should be an easy thing to do but it won't work for me with Opera 9.51 build 10081. I have found the Edit Widget Pop up Menu & Hotclick popup Menu. I have inserted Item, WordWeb = Copy & Execute program, "C:\Program Files\WordWeb\wwnotray.exe
as the last item in Edit Widget Popup Menu & Hotclick popup menu and the word web dose not show on my drop down list and word web is running in the system tray.

Any tips please.

Tamil Monday, July 7, 2008 7:59:38 AM

Originally posted by John164:

Item, WordWeb = Copy & Execute program, "C:\Program Files\WordWeb\wwnotray.exe

Did you put quote at the end?

John BarnettJohn164 Monday, July 7, 2008 9:59:58 AM

Yes this a copy of what I put in.

Item, WordWeb = Copy & Execute program, "C:\Program Files\WordWeb\wwnotray.exe"

Tamil Monday, July 7, 2008 10:10:18 AM

Originally posted by John164:

the word web dose not show on my drop down list and word web is running in the system tray.

Did you active your setup in CTRL+F12 → Advanced → Toolbars→ Menu setup?

No need to run WordWeb in system tray.

John BarnettJohn164 Monday, July 7, 2008 10:20:38 AM

It's working now since I did a re-boot bigsmile cheers

I had not appreciated that one had to select the Copy of opera standard menue to activate it, I thought it was active when created.

I learn something every day.

It's a pity it's so complicated to do these things it would be far better if there was GUI and the scripts could be imported and activated directly from there.

Thanks Tamil

Tamil Monday, July 7, 2008 10:23:33 AM

happy

No need to restart Opera.

Unregistered user Saturday, September 6, 2008 12:04:15 AM

sr writes: check

Sandysahands Saturday, September 6, 2008 3:47:34 PM

yay, it worked!
I love wordweb

John BarnettJohn164 Friday, December 5, 2008 9:46:07 AM

Hi I have just placed the Look up and spell check using WordWeb dictionary/thesaurus in my menu setup and wordweb is shown in the drop down menu,however each time I select a word and right click to select wordweb,even though wordweb is displayed I get this pop up.

"No Registered Application for this extension"

Where have I gone wrong? I placed Item, WordWeb = Copy & Execute program, "C:\Program Files\WordWeb\wwnotray.e"

In the OperFly menu.ini

Using opera 9.62 and the new Opera 10

OS is Vista Home Premium.

John.

John BarnettJohn164 Monday, December 8, 2008 12:03:32 PM

OK have it working now, problem was not being able to see

Item, WordWeb = Copy & Execute program, "C:\Program Files\WordWeb\wwnotray.exe"

when I zoomed in to 110% I could see the whole of the above text that needed to be paste into menu.ini

Kenneth ClarkCheeseKing Thursday, May 14, 2009 2:41:09 PM

Thanks a bunch Tamil! I'd never even heard of WordWeb before reading this, but it's awesome. Even better after using your little trick here. For anyone who may be having trouble with this, try Programmer's Notepad.

http://www.pnotepad.org/

It has a search function, unlike standard Windows Notepad, and highlights certain parts of the script making everything just that little bit easier.

joeblake442 Friday, October 2, 2009 5:53:33 PM

Can't get mine to work in 10. I've tried everything and it always worked in previous versions.

Tamil Friday, October 2, 2009 10:33:13 PM

Works for me in Opera 10.

Unregistered user Saturday, October 3, 2009 12:31:32 AM

Anonymous writes: But what about the underline red line? and can i have this in another language?

Tamil Saturday, October 3, 2009 1:19:39 AM

Did you mean spell checker for your language?

Unregistered user Saturday, October 3, 2009 4:30:27 AM

Anonymous writes: Yes and i found it just now... thank you anywat!

Unregistered user Monday, February 1, 2010 1:06:22 AM

Anonymous writes: Lingoes right click does not work with opera. Is there a way to do the same thing for Lingoes?

Tamil Monday, February 1, 2010 10:32:54 AM

Does Lingoes support command line parameters?

to86 Wednesday, March 3, 2010 9:08:23 PM

Hi, could you give me step by step instructions for doing this on a mac, in order to use apple's native dictionary app. thanks

Tamil Wednesday, March 3, 2010 11:08:38 PM

Sorry, I don't know about Mac OS.

himgil Sunday, March 14, 2010 7:22:22 PM

i'm using 10.51 right now and cannot use lingoes dictionary in opera, though in previous versions it worked perfectly. what you think caused that problem?

Tamil Monday, March 15, 2010 12:25:41 AM

Sorry, I don't know.

Unregistered user Thursday, April 1, 2010 2:51:14 PM

Kevin writes: I am having the same problem here with Lingoes. Ever since I have upgraded it to 10.51, my right-click hasn't been working. Any ideas guys? Cheers, Kevin

Tamil Thursday, April 1, 2010 2:55:23 PM

Any ideas guys?

Nope. Ask in forums.

Unregistered user Sunday, January 9, 2011 6:13:26 AM

operalLV writes: in most recent version of opera version 11.0, wordweb dictionary menu is not coming. i am missing anything :(

Tamil Sunday, January 9, 2011 7:46:04 AM

Works fine in Opera 11.

jbrothernew Wednesday, February 2, 2011 6:14:01 AM

I can't find the .ini file.

Tamil Wednesday, February 2, 2011 7:15:42 AM

Did you see this?

Andreandre1000 Tuesday, May 24, 2011 3:01:39 PM

This is great but the Opera dictionary works OK, so far, for me except that I want to add 1 word to it. Is there an easy way to do that and being sure not to break something?

Thank you!

Andre

Tamil Tuesday, May 24, 2011 3:07:25 PM

Right click on word > Add word

Import other software custom dictionary entries to Opera spell check dictionary

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