Contextual menu to access thesaurus and dictionary should work when track changes is activated

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Contextual menu to access thesaurus and dictionary should work when track changes is activated

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Perhaps in an update Microsoft could figure out a way to show the contextual memory when track changes is activated. Currently if the word you want to look up has yet been accepted, the context menu goes away. This is pretty irritating as a time when the context menu is important is when one is revising a document. I don't see why both menus (the reviewing items and the dictionary/thesaurus type items) couldn't both be combined.

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My gut reaction -- although not being a qualified programmer -- is that what you're suggesting is significantly more complex than you might think :-)

If you believe it to be a worthy suggestion don't hesitate to use Help> Send Feedback to submit it to Microsoft. Be sure to support your position as best you can. That's a direct line to those who make such decisions, whereas you're simply communicating with a community of other users here :-)

In the meantime, you might consider going directly to the Reference Tools pane of the Toolbox to look up alternative terms & definitions... Especially when Track Changes is in use. Select Tools> Thesaurus or Tools> Dictionary while the insertion point is positioned in the term... of better yet, take advantage of the keyboard shortcuts assigned to those commands so you don't even have to take your hands away from the keyboard. IMHO, using contextual menus for that purpose is [usually] a major impediment rather than a necessity :-)

Regards,

Bob J.

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