I know of many sites where I can see the dictionary online. I would
like to find a place online where the entire dictionary is online (in
a text format). My goal is to be able to put every word in the English
language (okay most words, say all words in the Websters Dictionary
for example) into as many excel spreadsheets as I would need. Finally
I don't know how to do the transfer from a text format to the Excel
spreadsheet, so I need the answer to that as well. Basically I need
you to go through the entire process in a very elementary way so that
I can make it happen. I think this is a $50 to $100 question. I asked
an Excel question the other night and was charged for it even though
the answer wasn't good enough for me to solve my problem. I know I
could have asked for a refund, but I didn't because the person worked
hard to help me through it. I will post this as a $30 question and
once I can get through it..probably with some additional
clarifications from you I will add in the additional tip. Ask around I
am very fair.
Thanks
Joel |
Clarification of Question by
joel1357-ga
on
24 May 2003 01:06 PDT
Okay..I thought the price was reasonable..I've raised it to $50..and
will give a tip of up to $50 depending on the ease of using your
answer to enable me to do what I need to do.
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Request for Question Clarification by
secret901-ga
on
24 May 2003 01:29 PDT
Hi joel1357,
When you say that you need the "entire dictionary," do you mean that
you want the dictionary entries along with their definitions? What
sort of format do you expect the text files to be?
secret901-ga
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Request for Question Clarification by
shiva777-ga
on
24 May 2003 05:29 PDT
Hi Joel. I know that you are working a lot with domain names and I am
assuming this has something to do with that project. When I was
working a lot with domain names I put together an excel spreadsheet
with the top 1000 most searched on the Internet keywords and then had
a program that would mix and match them and feed them into a whois
query automatically to find if the domain names were still available.
Of course it came up with a lot of nonsensical names, but it did
uncover some good ones too that were still available. And it gave me
ideas for others.
Is this something like you are trying to do? If it is let me know and
I can put together instructions on how you can do this as an answer.
If not it would be helpful to know the purpose of the project. I'm not
sure having every single word in a dictionary would be very useful.
There's a *lot* of words and that would be one huge spreadsheet!
thanks,
-shiva777
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Request for Question Clarification by
aditya2k-ga
on
24 May 2003 08:06 PDT
Hi joel,
Do you want only the English words, or would you need the word and
meaning? regarding the Excel spreadsheets, would you want to list the
words row-wise or column-wise (assuming it's *only* words).
Cheers,
Aditya.
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