How to remove a word from Word's main Spelling Dictionary. Or how to make a word that Word thinks is. Article contributed by. Suzanne S. Barnhill. Not for Mac Word: Due to a bug. Mac Word 2. 00. 4 and 2. An exclusion dictionary causes Word's spelling engine to. This technique can be a very helpful adjunct to. Auto. Correct. For example, I frequently mistype “about” as “abut.” I could. Auto. Correct to change “abut” to “about,” but this might happen without my. I really meant. I don't use “abut”. Spell-Checking, Language, and Dictionary Issues in MacWord. Word 2008: Applications/Microsoft Office 2008/Office/Shared Applications. For Word to spell-check. I don't mind having it marked as. I also made haste to add “pubic” to my exclusion dictionary when I. I'd cited the Fairhope Pubic. Library as one of my references! Note that the procedure for using exclusion dictionaries in. Word 2. 00. 7 differs considerably from that in previous. Word 2. 00. 3 and earlier. Create the exclusion dictionary. Creating exclusion dictionaries is described in the Word. Help topic . In other words, you type in the . Type all of your words. If you do not, they won't match the main dictionary. Save the exclusion dictionary. Your next challenge is to find out what to use as the file. To do this, you need to find the name of the main. In the case of Office 2. Mssp. 3*. lex, where * represents your language. In Office 9. 7. the file is Mssp. Spell Check w/ MS Word. To spell check in a foreign language. Once you are sure your copy of MS Word has the dictionary you need. 10 Spelling Checker Secrets for Microsoft Word. Microsoft's site for. The Spell Check feature in Microsoft Office 2007 is. Working with Spell Check. Modifying text in a dictionary can be useful so that Spell Check does not mark. A free online spell checker. Spell check text in English, Spanish. Features medical dictionary, word counter, character counter, post to. How to fix Microsoft Word's spell-checker. Language and how we use it. Who Checks the Spell-Checkers? Microsoft Word's dictionary. PowerPoint, and Word: Click the Microsoft Office Button > Options > Proofing. In InfoPath, OneNote. How to check spelling and grammar in another. If you do, you've found the main English dictionary. If you do not see that file, use Search in. Windows Explorer (My Computer) to search your Program Files. MSSP*. LEX. Make sure you click More advanced options. Hidden folders and System folders. If you work in American, Canadian, or UK English, your. MSSP3. EN. LEX, so your exclusion dictionary must be. MSSP3. EN. EXC. If you work in other languages, the names are: Language. Dictionary. Exclusion Dictionary. Office 2. 00. 0 and above Australian. MSSP3. ENA. LEXMSSP3. ENA. EXCSpanish. MSSP3. ES. LEXMSSP3. ES. EXCFrench. MSSP3. FR. LEXMSSP3. FR. EXCOffice 9. 7 Australian. MSSP2. This should be: < homedrive> :\Documents and Settings\user name\Application. Data\Microsoft\Proof. Where < homedrive> is usually . So you may need to. Word to tell you where it is. In Word 2. 00. 3, do the following: Go to Tools . Regrettably, the dialog is not usually large enough to. DICTIONARY; THESAURUS; GRAMMAR. How to “remove” a word from Word's main spelling dictionary. Add each word that you want the spelling checker to. Click the New button on the right. You will see. the following dialog: Click the little downward arrow to the right of the. Look in: field at the top. It will drop down the full hierarchy as. As you can see, this Custom Dictionary is in the default location on. C drive. Follow the instructions in the Help topic and save your. Use the exclusion dictionary. Once you have saved the exclusion dictionary, you can make. Go to Tools . When you want to add a word to it, you can. Modify. The challenge instead is to locate the. Note: It would appear that these dictionaries are. Each dictionary will be. Find the dictionary. Open Microsoft Windows Explorer (My Computer or. Computer). An easy way to do this is with the keyboard shortcut Winkey+E. Winkey” is the Windows key on your keyboard (the one with the. Navigate to the location where custom dictionaries are. The location is usually one of the following: Windows Vista. C: \Users\user name. App. Data\Microsoft\UProof. If you don’t see this folder, do the following: If the menu bar is not displayed, display it by. Alt. On the menu bar, click Organize, then Folder and Search Options. The name of the file you need to open is. Exclude. Dictionary. Language Code. Language LCID. The Language Code is a two- letter code such as EN. English or FR for French. The Language LCID (Locale ID) is a four- digit. You can find a very complete list of these codes. Language Codes. The chart. Language Codes. In both. As examples, here are the presumed exclusion dictionary. English (I don’t guarantee that they all. Exclude. Dictionary. EN0. C0. 9. lex: English – Australia. Exclude. Dictionary. EN2. 80. 9. lex: English – Belize. Exclude. Dictionary. EN1. 00. 9. lex: English – Canada. Exclude. Dictionary. EN2. 40. 9. lex: English – Caribbean. Exclude. Dictionary. EN3. C0. 9. lex: English – Hong Kong – SARExclude. Dictionary. EN4. 00. English – India. Exclude. Dictionary. EN3. 80. English – Indonesia. Exclude. Dictionary. EN1. 80. 9. lex: English – Ireland. Exclude. Dictionary. EN2. 00. 9. lex: English – Jamaica. Exclude. Dictionary. EN4. 40. 9. lex: English – Malaysia. Exclude. Dictionary. EN1. 40. 9. lex: English – New Zealand. Exclude. Dictionary. EN3. 40. 9. lex: English – Philippines. Exclude. Dictionary. EN4. 40. 9. lex: English – Singapore. Exclude. Dictionary. EN1. C0. 9. lex: English – South Africa. Exclude. Dictionary. EN2. C0. 9. lex: English – Trinidad. Exclude. Dictionary. EN0. 80. 9. lex: English – United Kingdom. Exclude. Dictionary. EN0. 40. 9. lex: English – United States. Exclude. Dictionary. EN3. 00. 9. lex: English – Zimbabwe. As you can see, there is much more granularity of. Word 2. 00. 7 than in. U. S., U. K., and. Canadian English, for example). Note also that the file uses the. Edit the dictionary. Edit the file using the text editor of your choice (such. Notepad or Word. Pad). Add each word that you want the spelling checker to flag. Be sure to type the words in all lowercase letters, and press. ENTER after each word. Save and close the file. Going forward. Once you have found the appropriate dictionary file and. Unfortunately, unlike. Word 2. 00. 7 doesn’t allow you to open and edit the exclusion. Custom Dictionaries dialog. Therefore, if you want. Word, pin it to the file list under the Office Button.
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