- A grammar and spell checker (in more than 70 languages)
- The dictionaries Littré and TLF (Treasury of the French Language)
- A dictionary of postal codes (10 European countries)
- A rhyming dictionary and another for families of words
- A translator word-for-word in English, German, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese
- An analyzer of words, phrases and key concepts
- A comparison with 5000 your text books
- Syntactic statistical tools, lexical and stylistic as well as thematic analyzer.
It automatically integrates into the most commonly used software:
- Tools for Office: MS Office 2013, MS Office 2010, MS Office 2007, Office 365, LibreOffice, OpenOffice, AbiWord and Works
- Web browsers: Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera and Safari.
- The mail clients and instant messaging: Outlook, Thunderbird, Windows Live Mail, and The Bat FoxMail
- Other software like Dreamweaver, Corel WordPerfect, Eudora, Lotus Notes, QuarkXPress, InDesign, Adobe PageMaker, PostBox, MindManager, Illustrator CS5, CorelDraw, Skype, GroupWise and Notepad ++.
INSTALLATION AND LICENSE *** ***
Family use: You can install Cordial Pro 20 on 3 computers in the same household.
In professional use, each user must have its own license (one per station).
Cordial Pro 20 is available for Windows operating systems (Windows 8, 7, Vista, XP) and Mac (Mac OS X 6-9). When installing, the license must be associated with only those 2 OS Mon (lun is either the other).
The installation is pretty fast. Lactivation software is required to avail all its features. It can be done via Internet (recommended immediate action), by telephone or by email (manual procedure that may take some time) or do it later.
*** *** AND TECHNICAL SUPPORT
Upon purchase, it receives technical and telephone assistant for 12 months, to resolve any issues and help us in times of difficulty.
Jai contacted this medium several times. They respond quickly (within hours that followed), except that where i had to restart (see discussion with Synapse carrier in response to this comment the problem was solved in 20 minutes).
*** AND EFFICIENCY? ***
The analysis of documents done in record time. Each fault detected by Cordial Pro 20 is explained clearly and in detail. It makes suggestions on spelling and grammar and advises on formulas to prefer or avoid, for example, anglicisms, the daccents oversights, okay mistakes of the past participle, conjunctions of subordination "although" that require subjective and not the present, with a homophone confusion, etc ..
Overall, Cordial Pro 20 helped me to correct many mistakes that I committed regularly. It identifies my mistakes and explained them to me in detail. In general corrections are just Cordial even shameful record of errors in articles published on LeMonde.fr or in the GTC Amazon France.
Despite its effectiveness, the corrector Cordial Pro 20 is however not perfect. False positives or false suggestions are present in complex documents, but these errors corrections are relatively few compared to the power of the software. This forces the user to think before accepting corrections, ignore or make any changes. It's best to spend several times the document Cordial corrector to eliminate the rebels fouls. We must consider the corrections Cordial Pro 20 as suggestions and not corrections to validate stupidly.
CORDIAL *** *** DICTIONARY
Cordial also be found in 20 Pro, a very useful grammatical and typographical using grouping manuals on writing rules and the uses of French. Perfect for revising its schoolyards and to progress.
The integrated dictionary Cordial Dico offers a multitude of functions:
- Definition of a word with its synonyms according to the dictionary of the French language or TLF Littré.
- Parsing: The grammatical difficulties, stylistic, semantic and spelling but also families of words and homonyms. It supports common nouns and proper nouns, abbreviations, acronyms and all zip codes in 10 European countries.
- The combination: As Bescherelle, all modes and times are managed (indicative, subjunctive, conditional, imperative, etc ..).
- The use of the word with its combinations and contexts (eg "Cordial" can be used as group of words "cordial friendship", "cordial relations", "cordial handshake"), his quotes ("Enthusiasm is a cordial ", Victor Hugo, Postscript of my life) and its Latin phrases.
- Translations of a word in French, English, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese. If other additional information is available (such as true and false friends and anglicisms) Cordial Pro will show them.
- Games: This section is invaluable for finding the combinations in the crossword (eg my n *** will return home), anagrams and Scrabble parties. Also available is a dictionary of rhymes.
*** *** THE TOOLS DANALYSE
The tool "My Spelling" draws your own record encountered mistakes to avoid repeating them in the future. Manual rules amounts help us progress. A random survey raises questions about the proper use to adopt. All this is excellent progress and is more effective than language development software.
You have access to a bunch of statistics and tips on the analyzed text and can take up a lot of very useful information (% adjectives% rare vocabulary% of ambiguous words, semantic analysis, style of text or vocabulary, etc).
*** CONCLUSION ***
Even if he does not correct with perfection (this would be impossible because of the richness of French and traps) and it lets several faults they Cordial Pro 20 is nice and full. I recommend it to discerning users who tiquent immediately for a foul.