change language on PocketWord

Is the Spell checker set to german cause you have a German Pocket PC?
Check this third party program out instead.http://www.softmaker.de/tmp_en.htm

Bob

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ATTENTION: you should consult your lawyer/ contact Microsoft/scrutinize their legal stuff on the question before doing what I describe in this tutorial. I'm pretty sure if you have two Pocket PC's, one of them being an English one, then, you can use the English operating system on your other, non-English PDA too, which may also mean you can freely exchange the dictionary between the two devices. It's even possible that you may install different versions of the built-in dictionary even without actually having another Pocket PC in the target language.

It's, fortunately, very easy to install spelling dictionaries of different languages on Pocket PC's – it's far easier than changing the language of the system.

Both the Windows Mobile 2003 (WM2003) and the Windows Mobile 2003, Second Edition (WM2003SE) (and, incidentally, their Phone Edition editions) operating system use exactly the same dictionary files. This means you'll be able to transfer the English dictionary file from your 'old' WM2003 PDA if you have a new, WM2003SE one – there are a lot of choices.

The WM operating system stores the dictionary in a 448 kbyte-large file named 'mssp2_ge.lex' in the \Windows directory of your PDA. Note the bold ge. It shows it's a German dictionary.

All you have to do is the following: on your English WM2003+ PDA, navigate into \Windows (preferable with a desktop-based tool like Total Commander (TC) + its WinCE FS plug-in), look for the file named 'mssp2_en.lex' (en, as you may have already guessed, stands for English) and copy (F5 in TC) it to the desktop.

Please note that you'll need to exit Word for this file to be readable. If you still can't access it (because it's, in the IT terminology, locked), but you DO have an English PDA so you can rightfully use the English dictionary on your other PDA's too (again, consult your lawyer on this), you may extract this file from ROM upgrade images. Please read this article[/url] on using ROM extractor tools like [url="http://wiki.xda-developers.com/wiki/DumpRom"]DumpRom. I think you may rightfully do the same if you do have an English PDA but it's not working, so you can't copy the English dictionary from it either.

After you've saved the mssp2_en.lex file on your desktop, rename it to mssp2_ge.lex (still on the desktop). It's F6 in TC.

Now, disconnect your English and, subsequently, connect your German PDA to the desktop computer. Copy the previously-saved&renamed mssp2_ge.lex file to its \Windows directory.

After this, Word should see the new dictionary.

All is done, congrats [:)]

Just posted a slightly enhanced version of the above tutorial tohttp://www.smartphonemag.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=18255

You may also want to check out this free utility.
http://www.freewareppc.com/educational/chdictnet.shtml
Allows you to select which dictionary to use in Pocket Word.

Bob

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quote:Originally posted by Bob_Katayama

You may also want to check out this free utility.
http://www.freewareppc.com/educational/chdictnet.shtml
Allows you to select which dictionary to use in Pocket Word.

Bob

Microsoft MVP - Windows Mobile Devices

www.technobrains.com
Your Neighborhood PDA Cafe
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PDA Applications

Thanks for pointing this out! This is ctitanic's program and has the English/Spanish dictionaries included. That is, you can just extract the mssp2_en.lex file from it (you won't need to extract it from another PDA/a ROM image) and copy into \Windows, renamed to mssp2_ge.lex, as explained in my tutorial.

If you don't want to do this by hand, just install and run the app (you won't need any renaming/manual file copying!) and, after you've set the dictionary to be English, you're all set. You can even remove the Spanish dictionary, mssp2_es.lex, after this. (Do NOT uninstall the entire application because it'll also remove the English dictionary!!)

If you plan to use different dictionaries (French/German/Italian etc), unfortunately, it can't really be used with this application - the app doesn't notice other language dictionary files being present in \Windows. So, you can only use it to switch between English and Spanish (and, of course, set the system to use one of them.)

(BTW, the fact that these spellchecker dictionary files can be freely distributed also means using spellchecker dictionaries of a different language is not an infringement of the law. That's good news!)

Posted a greatly enhanced version of the tutorial tohttp://smartphonemag.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=18262