Does anybody out there know how to do the above in Word 2002.



I can obviously do it a single word at a time but I'd like to be finished by

the end of the year!! Is there a limit BTW on the amount of words one can

import?



TIA



Geoff





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You asked the same question in microsoft.public.word.general and I answered it there.  Here is a copy of that reply.





To add to your custom dictionary try the following.  Only remember that 

it depends which version you have how large a dictionary you can build. 

  If it is Word 97 the limit is about 5000 word, while Word 2003 does 

not seem to have any limits.  I d not know about the other versions.





Depending on how many words you want to add and the source for the words 

you could try the following.  On the internet do a search and see 

whether you can find a word list.  That would be a list that has only 

one word per line.  If you cannot find such a list find as many articles 

as you can and copy to Word as one big file.  Get rid of any unwanted 

objects e.g. clipart, photos, etc..



Highlight the whole file (Ctrl -A) and go to Edit/Replace/More/Special. 

  In the "Replace with" field choose the first choice - paragraph mark. 

In the "find what" field ad any of the other characters you what to 

replace.  That would be some or all of the following.  space, coma, 

period, ?,<>!%&$#+ depending on what you find in the article.  Then 

Replace all.  You should now have a file that has one word per line 

several pages long.  What you will notice is that there is many 

duplicate words.  Don't worry about it.



Find your custom dictionary if English is your language or create one of 

your own.  Open the file in Notepad and NOT in Word.  Back to Word, 

highlight the wordlist and copy (Ctrl-C) go to Notepad and paste the 

wordlist.  Save and close the new dictionary.



If it a new custom dictionary with a name other than CUSTOM go to 

Option\Spelling & Grammar\Dictionaries and add it to the list and make 

it default for this exercise.



Do a spell check on the wordlist in Word.  There should be no errors. 

Create one by deleting or adding one character and do another spell 

check.  Add the error to the list



Return to Notepad and open the new dictionary.  You will notice that the 

list is alphabetical and there is no duplicate words.  Find the error 

and change it back to the correct word.  Keep on adding words that way 

if you find more articles with words you do not have.  This is ideal for 

people with special needs like engineers , scientist where it is 

difficult to find a dictionary.



You can now change the default if needed or leave as is, as you can have 

more that one default, one for every language.



Hope it helps.



Hennie






	
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				Originally posted by geoffatmhg 

Does anybody out there know how to do the above in Word 2002.



I can obviously do it a single word at a time but I'd like to be finished by

the end of the year!! Is there a limit BTW on the amount of words one can

import?



TIA



Geoff





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Hi Geoffatmhg,



> Does anybody out there know how to do the above in Word 2002.

>

> I can obviously do it a single word at a time but I'd like to be finished by

> the end of the year!! Is there a limit BTW on the amount of words one can

> import?

>

Basically, you can simply open the *.dic file in Word (it's a plain text

file), carefully enter the words (one per line), sort them alphabetically and

save (still as a plain text file).



Cindy Meister

INTER-Solutions, Switzerland

http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)

http://www.word.mvps.org



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You don't need to sort it.



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"Cindy M -WordMVP-" <C.Meister-C@hispeed.ch> wrote in message

news:VA.0000a39c.0098c214@speedy...

> Hi Geoffatmhg,

> 

> Basically, you can simply open the *.dic file in Word (it's a plain text

> file), carefully enter the words (one per line), sort them alphabetically

> and

> save (still as a plain text file).

>

> Cindy Meister

> INTER-Solutions, Switzerland

> http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)

> http://www.word.mvps.org

>

> This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or

> reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-)

>

Hi Doug,



> You don't need to sort it.

>

Thanks. <sigh> Couldn't remember whether one did, or not,

so thought it safer to do so...



Cindy Meister