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title: "Dictionellisense"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2005/7/1/dictionellisense.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2005/7/1/dictionellisense.html"
published: "2005-07-01T21:13:00"
updated: "2005-07-01T21:13:00"
tags: ["Off Topic"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "OK, never mind. I don't have the time or energy to build this, but maybe one of you can. And earn billions of dollars: Dictionellisense: Type the beginning of a word in Word , press CTRL+SPACE and have a list of words…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
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# Dictionellisense

By Roy Osherove July 1, 2005 In [Off Topic](https://osherove.com/blog/category/off-topic)

**Historical article** · Originally published July 1, 2005; technical details may be outdated.

OK, never mind. I don't have the time or energy to build this, but maybe one of you can. And earn billions of dollars:

Dictionellisense: Type the beginning of a word in Word , press CTRL+SPACE and have a list of words starting with that word appear and let you choose one.

Press CTRL+SHIFT+SPACE and you'll see a list of synonyms for that word.

Simple? Easy?

IDEs do it. Mobile telephones do it (T9). Even some text editors do it. Why isn't Word?

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    ### [Congratulations, Ohad. Twofold!](https://osherove.com/blog/2005/7/3/congratulations-ohad-twofold.html)

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    ### [William Safire's Rules for Writers](https://osherove.com/blog/2005/7/1/william-safires-rules-for-writers.html)

- Jul 1, 2005

    ### [Nice PDC Contest Entry from Steve Hebert](https://osherove.com/blog/2005/7/1/nice-pdc-contest-entry-from-steve-hebert.html)


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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

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