• Is it for spell checking, thesaurus or translation ?
• How is the average user going to use and benefit from VBA Dictionary ?
• You have said there are no popup screens, but what does the user see ?
• How does this affect the existing use of MS Word dictionaries and thesaurus ?
• Can your product be uninstalled ?
• Is there an alternate payment option ?

It is a stand-alone dictionary which can be used in addition and where you can look-up, while having some doubts about the meaning of expressions in other languages. In this way it is the same like having a look in a "paper" dictionary, but it is faster and extendable. So you may call it a "private" dictionary or thesaurus.

If you call VBADictionary, while the cursor is on a word inside a MS Word document, VBADictionary will automatically take this word as a proposal to search for. You can modify this in the main window of VBADictionary and the perform a query in the dictionary data base by pressing ENTER. VBADictionary will the show the expressions found in the selected language.

You can select an expression from the list of found expressions and then transfer it (using transfer right or left button) to your MS Word document. This will automatically replace the expression where the cursor was located before. A word by word translation is possible by doing like this.

I was thinking about a feature to automatically translate like this, but cancelled it because:

• In my opinion it will create a lot of rework to be done afterwards.
• The standard delivery package of VBADictionary provides only the infinitive verb forms, so it will not find conjugated verb forms and therefore stop the execution very often.
• Some languages use a great variety of meanings with the same expression. While translating this, the program will have to decide which is the correct one, or simply paste all of the possible translations.
• This will cause the program to analyze the context (which even scientists are still working on) or it will paste a lot of text, which has to be edited manually afterwards.
• Even so you are able to put conjugated verb forms in the database and to clean it from multiple meanings. While customizing like this you will get pretty good results in word by word translation (even in combination with the spell and grammar checking of MS Word).

For users working a lot with different languages or using special vocabulary it has a lot of advantages, as described below.

VBADictionary was invented because of the following reasons:

• Many corporate or private installations of MS Word do not support different languages. Normally only the install language is included in the installation of spell checking, grammar checking and thesaurus.
• While I was working a lot with different languages I missed this feature in MS Word. After including other MS languages to my business PC I found out, that a lot of expressions in "exotic" languages are not correct (like differences in Portuguese and Brazilian Portuguese).
• First I started then to add unknown expressions to user dictionaries in MS Word. But doing like this you loose the translation. Even more complicated if you have different meanings of the same word in your native language.
• So far so good. In this point I had only to search once for a translation in a traditional dictionary, then put it into VBADictionary and it was accessible easier in future.
• Then I found out that putting vocabulary manually to VBADictionary is creating double entries. So I created the "automatically learn feature", which searches each word of a MS Word document in the database of VBADictionary and prompts if the expression could not be found. This was a tremendous step ahead. Because now it was simple and comfortable to enhance the dictionary with new and special expressions.
• As I keep forgetting translations very often (particularly in case of very special translations) I have now the chance to "note" it down to VBADictionary and it will be available later on.

There was a lot of time spent programming VBADictionary and filling the dictionaries with vocabulary of 5 languages.

Finally I found it pretty good and useful, so I wanted to distribute it "to the world". I was thinking a lot about the price of the full version and decided to make it "low cost". Therefor I checked several mechanisms to prevent using the program without registration. One of them are the Pop-Up screens.

Of course the full version has not these Pop-Up screens, but even so has a window (main and sub windows) to interact with the user.

If you want to check out the behavior of the full version, simply start the demo version and confirm all the Pop-Up screens until reaching in the main window of VBADictionary (the one with the flags at the top). Now imagine the full version comes directly to this screen after starting it.

Also, VBADictionary has nothing in common with the spell checking, thesaurus or dictionary feature of MS Word.

So it is not affecting MS Word in any way.

Simply refer to the installation guideline described in the ReadMe file and follow the installation steps backwards.

VBADictionary is not using any registry entries, therefore it is enough to simply remove the installed files.

I will create an install/uninstall tool. So please pass by on the download site, if it is not included in your ZIP file.

So the way to make a payment to my bank account was the only way, which seemed to be practical for me.

I am well knowing that this will be a risk to somebody ordering my program, transferring money to my account and not receiving anything afterwards. If I would do like this, I am sure it will be published in the user ratings inside the shareware download center's where I am registered and where you maybe found my program.

So it would not be impossible for me anymore to sell anything or to fall out the download centers registration.

If somebody can suppose a save way to handle the "deal" I will be glad about.

Otherwise we can only proceed to trust one in another !