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rscott6-Contributor
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February 3, 2016
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3.1 Prime Spellcheck

  • February 3, 2016
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Please tell me this is some sort of joke.

3.1 Prime does not have a spellcheck?

out of all the things this extremely EXPENSIVE software can do it doesn't have a spellcheck?

Someone please tell me I'm just missing it

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Werner_E25-Diamond I
25-Diamond I
February 3, 2016

Prime does not have a spellchecker, thats true.

But if you don't miss anything else in Prime, maybe some substantial features, you really are a lucky man!

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RichardJ19-Tanzanite
19-Tanzanite
February 3, 2016
Please tell me this is some sort of joke.

Yes, it is a joke. Just not a very funny one

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rscott6-ContributorAuthor
6-Contributor
February 3, 2016

Well, very simply put

First off i think the program is garbage. They want how much for this and no spellcheck? ITS A WORD PROCESSOR!

I won't be buying another PTC product nor will i continue to use mathcad

I will go back to Matlab and Latex

Both have more capability.  PTC should be ashamed of itself.

The software is difficult and cumbersome to use. It takes hours and hours to input simply computation programs that I've already worked by hand anyway.

Therefore ill stay with latex. Really disgusting PTC

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LucMeekes23-Emerald IV
23-Emerald IV
February 3, 2016

I know Matlab has a syntax checker, but does it have a spell-checker...?

Does Latex have a spell-check....?

Use the right tool for the task.

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    ValeryOchkov24-Ruby IV
    24-Ruby IV
    February 4, 2016

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    rscott6-ContributorAuthor
    6-Contributor
    February 4, 2016

    I whole 100% disagree. Mathcad is nothing more then a word processor that had a CAS working behind the scenes

    For those of you that kept say "math cad does unit!" That is the funniest thing i have ever heard!

    The units are what cause 99% of errors in math cad.

    Someone invented spellcheck software ooooo about 50 years ago! Your gonna tell me for $1600 PTC can't get a spellcheck going?

    Give me a break

    Matlab and latex both have spellchecks and who cares that this thing does the math for you. 99% of do the math by hand on a piece of paper before we try and make a report anyway.

    Total garbage but for the sake of completeness I'm going to try 15 now since you say it has a spellcheck because I'm apparently the only enigeeeer enginr engineeeeer that can't spell and is only good at math.

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    RichardJ19-Tanzanite
    19-Tanzanite
    February 5, 2016

    I whole 100% disagree. Mathcad is nothing more then a word processor that had a CAS working behind the scenes

    Other way round. It is a CAS with a whiteboard interface, and therefore some word processing capability. More capability has been asked for for years, but unfortunately with Prime we got less (no spellcheck, and, amazingly for a math package, no subscripts or superscripts in text, all of which was / is available in Mathcad 15).

    For those of you that kept say "math cad does unit!" That is the funniest thing i have ever heard!

    The units are what cause 99% of errors in math cad.

    Then you are not using them the right way, and / or your math is wrong.

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