Now we will be discussing an useful trick to increase your performance writing this kind of word documents we have been talking about. It was compiled by an organic chemist, but will be useful for chemists of all disciplines. An installation file is included in the downloadable zip. I happen to only have tested it out there and it works just perfectly! Following the author’s instructions, it is compatible with Microsoft Word, iWork, and Writer and works on PC, Macintosh, or Linux systems. It should work in any word processor not just in MS Word.
You can also download directly the package by clicking HERE The spell-check file supplements, but does not overwrite, any native or custom dictionaries already functioning on the user’s computer. These words are not found in the user’s native dictionary: chemical compounds, systematic nomenclature fragments, laboratory techniques, and chemical descriptors are included.
This free downloadable spell-checker add-on checks the spelling (in American English) of more than 100,000 technical chemistry words. Azman created a chemistry spell-check dictionary for Word Processors. As I write this document, or any other that has at least a bit something to do with chemistry, a fact comes true: I will be using the functions “add to the dictionary”, “ignore once” and “ignore all” all the time… Well, this time-consuming activity seems to be over with this package!
Almost all people are familiar with MS word, but only a fraction of our collaborators are familiar with the latex.4 How to Draw Chemical Structures in Word using ChemDraw Using a chemistry spell-check dictionary:Īpart from learning how to draw chemical structures in Word, we’ll look at some other tricks. The most important of all is the collaborative purpose. But MS word offers several features like a spelling and grammar checker, easy writing without memorizing the codes for different tasks that have a definite advantage over the latex. Latex can do it smoothly and efficiently. If your paper has many equations, then probably the best and the easiest way for you would be to write your manuscript in latex. It is essential to insert equation numbers if you are working on your thesis and/or any scientific paper consisting of a lot of equations.