Word Menu 2.2 | 
| From: Write Brothers
This item is no longer available
Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 8839
Format: CD-ROM
Platforms: Mac OS X, Windows NT 4, Windows Me, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
Media: CD-ROM
Number Of Items: 1
Operating System: Windows NT 4
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 10.3 x 8.4 x 2.2
MPN: 913025
Model: 913025
UPC: 705868130271
EAN: 0705868130271
ASIN: B00016V3VS
Release Date: January 24, 2004
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| Features:
| • | Reverse Dictionary - find words by meaning or by looking up related words | | • | Glossary Treasury with nearly 800 divisions and 80,000 entries | | • | Almanac with entries for holidays, sports terms, science and more | | • | Helps arrange your words in a logical, categorized structure | | • | Automatic Web updating of the Word Menu database |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
Word Menu 2.2 organizes language in the way you understand it! This program works as a dictionary, thesuarus and almanac in one -- just do a search and hit the button for all the results you need. Helps arrange your words in a logical, categorized structure Automatic Web updating of the Word Menu database
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| Customer Reviews:
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 not for serious writers April 3, 2009
Catnip
I would recommend this product for kids, middle school age maybe, but not for anyone looking for a real thesaurus to use with their computer. It will bring up a few interesting alternatives for any given word, but misses many of the most obvious ones. It's not very useful.
 Garbage June 21, 2007
Share (Wisconsin)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This software is garbage. After the install, it asks that you restart your system. Then when you click on the shortcut on the desktop after the restart, the whole machine goes black and the systems recovers from a "serious error" Needless to say it was unistalled immediately. Save your money and use an internet dictionary or thesaurus.
 The Wordsmith Utility Tool August 2, 2006
Edward P. Matos (Laredo, Texas)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
"Word Menu 2.2" is an amazing and fun program to use. It allows even the smartest of writers to express themselves with more accuracy, fluidity, and creativeness -- it makes one's writing look more intelligent. "Word Menu's" interface is actually fun to use and simple to maneuver around while looking for that perfect word. Every writer or wordsmith should own a copy of this invaluable program.
Over-rated product June 4, 2005
Terje Kjobstad
22 out of 26 found this review helpful
Word Menu 2.2 offers quickly accessible words, however the defintions are vague and indirect. Many words you would expect to find are missing, and frankly this is a program that would be most useful for people learning the english language,seeking to understand genres which certain words pertain to. It is my opinion that most english speakers already have a strong grasp on most of these words and subjects they entail; buying this for any trivial benefit of searching words by subjects, is foolhardy. It's not worth 30 dollars, I wish I would not have purchased it and do not reccomend it. If the price was 15 dollars or less, I would suggest "hey why not". $30 is an unreasonable price for this simplistic vocabulary lexicon and is more wisely spent on something else.
 Good idea, needing attention to basic details. May 20, 2004
S Smyth (Belfast, Co Antrim United Kingdom)
23 out of 24 found this review helpful
This is a very comprehensive resource of categorised words and their meanings, which is easily navigated and understood. Loaded onto a laptop, one has a lot of power easily to hand.
The Fractal Browser looks like a good idea and would be a visually attractive feature for school kids. But I would have been happy to ditch this feature in place of having a standard dictionary browsing option outside of the categorised options, and still retain links to the corresponding categories. Another aspect of the Fractal Browser is that the links are images with quite fine text. This doesn't respond to the browser `Text Size' selector in Explorer. So monitors set at higher resolutions than 800 x 600 will be problematic for users with less than good eyesight. Users of IBM Thinkpads will not be able to get around this. This is also a problem with respect to the category tree.
(P.S. 22/09/2004: IBM Thinkpad users can get around this problem by right clicking on their desktop, and then left clicking on the Appearance tab, and selecting one of the Windows, Scheme options with larger GUI attributes. This however, may clash with other applications, which need a higher than 800x 600 resolution to allow the use of some of their property sheets/dialog boxes. Many recent applications are now optimised for 1024 x 768 and higher.)
A good product in principle and at a very reasonable price, but falls a little bit short in the overall design, with too much attention to the deluxe features, I think.
Searching for words is straightforward and the history feature is useful, but if you aren't sure of a word's spelling it can be tedious to find it, by trial and error, unless you know its category and go manually browsing for it. Google smarts would be useful here, and worth a few dollars more.
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