Protecting a Custom Dictionary

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AndrewinKC - 21 Jun 2006 16:24 GMT

I am developing a template to be used by project teams. One of challenges I
have run into is with the custom dictionary that I created as part of this
project.

Is it possible to have a custom dictionary that the user cannot make any
additions/deletions?

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP - 21 Jun 2006 16:38 GMT

If you set the Read Only attribute of the dictionary file via Windows
Explorer, when the user goes to add a word to the dictionary, they will get
a "Proofing engine countered (sic) an unspecified error while carrying out
this operation. Was this information helpful?" error message and the word
will not be added to the dictionary. Likely to upset your users.

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>I am developing a template to be used by project teams. One of challenges I
> have run into is with the custom dictionary that I created as part of this
> project.
>
> Is it possible to have a custom dictionary that the user cannot make any
> additions/deletions?

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