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MS Office Forum / Word / Spelling and Grammar / June 2008"Add to Dictionary" grayed out
I've just installed Office 2007, after a reimaging of WinXP Pro. Office 2003 is no longer present. I've copied my old Custom.dic dictionary to AppData/Microsoft/UProof under my user name. Word 2007 seems to read this dictionary in that my many specialty science words are not flagged as misspelled. However, I cannot add any new words to the dictionary. When I R-click, "Ignore" and "Ignore All" are functional, but "Add to dictionary" is grayed out and doesn't allow any additions. My Custom.dic is large (57K) but not yet to the 64K limit. It's not marked read only and I can edit it with Notepad. I can't find anything in Google to help, and though I've possibly missed something in this group, I've read pretty far back and can't find anything like this. Any suggestions? Thanks.  SignatureMike Maguire http://pharmacology.case.edu/department/faculty/primary/maguire.html may be I can help I had the same problem every now and again and today I did a discovery for some reason that I don't know, and MS tech team doesn't know too Word kills randomly custom.dic putting inside a lot of blunders and/or removing most personal words so, I retrieved an old custom.dic from an old backup and all is fine: Add to dictionary is coloured again! this is why my policy is now to regularly backup custom.dic warm regards Claudio ------------- > I've just installed Office 2007, after a reimaging of WinXP Pro. Office 2003 > is no longer present. I've copied my old Custom.dic dictionary to [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > missed something in this group, I've read pretty far back and can't find > anything like this. Any suggestions? Thanks. Thanks, I went back to an even older backup. I renamed Custom.dic in the UProof subdirectory to OLDCustom.dic, copied the backup in and opened Word. Unfortunately it didn't work. It's clearly reading from the custom.dic dictionary because of some of the words it's not flagging and because of some of the words it's suggesting, but the 'add to dict' is still grayed out. The curioous thing is that this older file is 77K in size, far over the 64K limit. Did office 2007 get rid of that limit? SignatureMike Maguire http://pharmacology.case.edu/department/faculty/primary/maguire.html > may be I can help > [quoted text clipped - 25 lines] > > missed something in this group, I've read pretty far back and can't find > > anything like this. Any suggestions? Thanks. Here are some facts about custom dictionaries that may help: - A custom dictionary in most cases is a simple text file that can be opened and edited in Notepad. If the dictionary is intended for a particular language, the first line contains the notation #LID followed by the numeric identifier; for example, a dictionary explicitly for English (UK) starts with #LID 2057. An "all languages" dictionary doesn't have that line. - There is no size limit. According to http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=211489 the help for Word 2000 had an erroneous statement that the limit is 366,590 bytes, but that has been corrected. To restore your Add To Dictionary command, try this (no guarantees, though!): - In the Custom Dictionaries dialog, select and remove all custom dictionaries. - Move the existing files out of UProof to some other folder. - Use the Custom Dictionaries dialog to create a new, empty dictionary. Close Word. - Open your OLDCustom.dic in one copy of Notepad, and open the new empty custom.dic in another copy of Notepad. Use copy/paste to transfer the existing words to the new file, save, and close. - Reopen Word and try adding words to the dictionary. If you're lucky, it will work. (Waving a rubber chicken over your computer may also work!) -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. >Thanks, I went back to an even older backup. I renamed Custom.dic in the >UProof subdirectory to OLDCustom.dic, copied the backup in and opened Word. [quoted text clipped - 33 lines] >> > missed something in this group, I've read pretty far back and can't find >> > anything like this. Any suggestions? Thanks. That worked, many thanks. Sorry so long in replying, out sick then moving daughter into apt. SignatureMike Maguire http://pharmacology.case.edu/department/faculty/primary/maguire.html > Here are some facts about custom dictionaries that may help: > [quoted text clipped - 68 lines] > >> > missed something in this group, I've read pretty far back and can't find > >> > anything like this. Any suggestions? Thanks. In my case, the problem was that I copied the dictionary from Word 2003 to Word 2007 thinking it would be compatible, how wrong I was. The encoding of CUSTOM.DIC needs to be changed to Unicode for it to work with Word 2007 - just open the file in Notepad and do Save As then for the Encoding select Unicode. Grrr.. > That worked, many thanks. Sorry so long in replying, out sick then moving > daughter into apt. [quoted text clipped - 71 lines] > > >> > missed something in this group, I've read pretty far back and can't find > > >> > anything like this. Any suggestions? Thanks. I actually got a message saying that it had to be in Unicode when I tried to follow what Jay Freedman suggested, pasting the text of the old Custom.dic into a new blank one, so i just saved it in Unicode. Whether that was the problem with the graying out or just a side issue I don't know, but it's all working now. SignatureMike Maguire http://pharmacology.case.edu/department/faculty/primary/maguire.html > In my case, the problem was that I copied the dictionary from Word 2003 to > Word 2007 thinking it would be compatible, how wrong I was. [quoted text clipped - 78 lines] > > > >> > missed something in this group, I've read pretty far back and can't find > > > >> > anything like this. Any suggestions? Thanks. Thanks your information worked for me. Seems like this shouldn't be necessary, but I much appreciate being able to add names, etc. to my Custom dicionary again. > Here are some facts about custom dictionaries that may help: > [quoted text clipped - 68 lines] > >> > missed something in this group, I've read pretty far back and can't find > >> > anything like this. Any suggestions? Thanks. Dear Jay Freedman, Your help sorted the problem immediately. Many thanks and kind regards, Kari M
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