Installing Chem4Word with the library of active compounds

[deadlyvices]

Introduction

Chem4Word is a free plug-in for Microsoft Word. You can write semantic chemistry documents with it. Follow this posting to install Chem4Word and view the library of active compounds within it.

N.B: It runs on the desktop version for Microsoft Windows only. Linux and Mac users will not be able to run it (apologies - if you really want to try it out, get in touch with me and I can arrange a demo platform).

Installing Chem4Word

• Download the installer first and run it.
• Close Word; it should not be running for the next step.

Installing the library

Chem4Word comes with a built-in library of compounds you will need to replace.

Instructions for downloading extra compound libaries can be found here https://www.chem4word.co.uk/extra-compound-libraries/

Running Chem4Word

• Start Word up as normal. When Word is running you should see a Chemistry tab available
• Click on this tab, then click the Open button in the Library button group. The library will take a few seconds to load.
• You should now see a list of structures on the left-hand-side of the main window:
• Try inserting a structure by clicking on the 'pages' icon on the bottom right.
• Try searching for structures by name

[petermr]

Thoughts about C4W

creating annotated tables

Could we take a fulltext.xml from the CEV corpus, and annotate the compound table (there always is one) with the C4W.cml files. E.g add a CML column to all tables. I think this is relatively easy and I think being able to browse these tables would be sensational. We could have dumb images for non-Word and C4W for the word.

[MikeWilliams-UK]

Folder has now been created on the Chem4Word web site. Initial issue text edited to remove instructions duplicated by the new page. Page has been created at https://www.chem4word.co.uk/extra-compound-libraries/ to list them. @deadlyvices I have emailed you the FTP details separtely.

[MikeWilliams-UK]

This sort of thing should be in the project's wiki rather than an issue (especially as it is NOT an issue)