Natural Word

This is an add-on for Microsoft's Word that allows the user to command Microsoft Word using their own words.

A pop-up, accessed via the `/~ key, allows the user to enter text commands such as 'create table', 'make the text big', or 'yellow'. No command memorization is required because the system is designed to understand virtually anything the user types in.

Natural Word is an interface into Microsoft Word that was designed to allow users to type into Word, using their own words, what they would like.

Rather than learning and memorizing Word's intricate menus and dialogs, Natural Word attempts to understand you, the user, and translates your requests into actions Word can understand.

For instance, rather than figuring which menus and toolbars change the color of text to blue, you can tell word 'make the text blue', or 'blue text', or even simply 'blue'.

Natural Word acts as a translator between you and the computer � its role is to understand you without forcing you to memorize command syntax or menu charts.

Natural Word is a simple interface into Microsoft Word that allows the user to type what they want in their own words! Rather than figuring out where options and commands are buried, type in 'blue', or 'create table', or 'make text bigger'.

No more complex command syntax or cryptic parameter lists to memorize - Natural Word understands what the user wants in their own words! We've taken the time to ask users how they would tell Word what to do and created a system that understands most of what ordinary users would want. For instance, to underline text, you can type 'underline', 'make the text underlined', 'draw a line underneath the text', and many, many other common ways.

Requirements:

￭ Microsoft Word 2000, 2003 ￭ 512 MB RAM ￭ .NET Framework 2.0 and dotnetfx if required.

Limitations:

￭ Only existing Word functionality is available. If Word couldn't do it before, it won't be able to do it now ￭ Word bugs and annoyances are still there. If it can't seem to align your text correctly, or keeps moving something over when you don't want it to, it, unfortunately, will continue to do so. ￭ Only about 80% of Word's functionality has been implemented. The Options panels and some less popular commands have not been implemented yet. ￭ When trying to search and/or replace text, make sure to enclose the text in double quotation marks. (e.g. find "someText", find all occurrences of "someText" and replace by "newText". The text in quotation marks uses C-Style escape codes ('n', 't', etc.)) ￭ Only a handful of the most popular font styles are defined within the grammar. Non-standard fonts are not supported yet.