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Today I ran into an odd little thesaurus bug inside Microsoft’s new version of MS Word 2007. It turns out that when searching for synonyms of the word “Information”, Microsoft Word 2007 recognized this incorrectly for the Thesaurus: English (U.S) version, providing the phrase “in order”, and adjective as an alternative synonym. Also recommended for “Information” is: in sequence, in turn, in rank, in a row.

Needless to say, none of these options are proper synonyms for the word, Information. You can access the MS Word Thesaurus by selecting the Review Tab, then locating the Thesaurus option under the Proofing block. Spelling and Grammar checking, Research, and Translate also fall into the Proofing category and are selectable in this section. Or you can (as I do) use the shortcut key, Shift + F7 after selecting the word you want synonyms for. I attempted to Google the phrase “Report Microsoft Word Bug” but I just found a number of compliant forums. My only hope is some Microsoft employee or software coder sees this post and takes action. Not that its ground breaking, just odd senses my older computer running Microsoft XP and an older version of Microsoft Word 2003, thesaurus displays the same error synonyms for the word, Information. You would think a decade of development work on Microsoft’s part would have caught and corrected this thesaurus error for a very commonly used word as “Information”.