Off topic

I note that guys aren't shy about sharing computer problems from time to time. Here is one. I bought a new Toshiba laptop with Vista recently. In spite of everything that has been said, I didn't notice the shift to Vista. I work on a lot of laptops at school, a rotating pool of this and that, so I had already been using Vista and MS Word 07, for a while without knowing it. I use Macs too sometimes and I don't blather on too much about OS's. They just are, if you know what I mean.

However, I did start using the Microsoft Works word processor which was bundled with my laptop for free, or at least it was part of the deal. In MS Works, on a right click on any word, a dictionary opens up with a thesaurus tab as well. This window is accessible to my favourite screen reader which I use for LD readers at school. But in MS Word this dictionary is not available although a thesaurus opens in the right hand task window. This thesaurus does not interact with my screen reader. What is this? Why is MS Word so lame?

Now I have to contact IT and bribe someone to install MS Works for the special needs kids instead of MS Word. Come on. Who doesn't need a dictionary? We are all special needs. Am I missing something here? Is the dictionary in MS Word somewhere else? Has my IT dept. disabled the dictionary in order to save space? That's always possible.