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Lookup and spell check using WordWeb dictionary/thesaurus

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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.

WordWeb Dictionary Lookup in Opera Hotclick Popup Menu
WordWeb lookup

WordWeb Spell Check in Opera Edit Widget Popup Menu
WordWeb spell check

WordWeb Suggestions
WordWeb suggestions

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Joel Nothman 13. November 2007, 12:53

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...

Ged 13. November 2007, 13:35

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 13. November 2007, 14:49

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

Asgeir 15. December 2007, 11:46

Merry Christmas

John Barnett 7. July 2008, 07:36

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 7. July 2008, 07:59

Originally posted by John164:

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

Did you put quote at the end?

John Barnett 7. July 2008, 09:59

Yes this a copy of what I put in.

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

Tamil 7. July 2008, 10:10

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 Barnett 7. July 2008, 10:20

It's working now since I did a re-boot :D :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 7. July 2008, 10:23

:happy:

No need to restart Opera.

Anonymous 6. September 2008, 00:04

sr writes:

check

Sandy 6. September 2008, 15:47

yay, it worked!
I love wordweb

John Barnett 5. December 2008, 09:46

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 Barnett 8. December 2008, 12:03

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 Clark 14. May 2009, 14:41

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.

joe 2. October 2009, 17:53

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

Tamil 2. October 2009, 22:33

Works for me in Opera 10.

Anonymous 3. October 2009, 00:31

Anonymous writes:

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

Tamil 3. October 2009, 01:19

Did you mean spell checker for your language?

Anonymous 3. October 2009, 04:30

Anonymous writes:

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

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