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MS Office Forum / Word / Spelling and Grammar / June 2008Migrate custom.dic from Word 2000 to 2007
I have replaced my old computer using Word 2000 with a computer with MS Vista and Office 2007 I need to bring my Word 2000 custom.dic into Word 2007. The MS site gives the method using 'add dictionary' but when I try to do that it fails stating that dictionary must be in unicode format. Unfortunately, although I copied the dictionary and template files, I can no longer run Office 2000 so how do I make the unicode conversion? And if you know how to bring my normal template across I would be grateful. thanks, Davy Since both the new and old .dic files should be able to be opened with, say, Notepad, why not copy and paste over the old entries into the new file? If you find the 2007 .dic file in Windows Explorer and open, you should be able to do the paste. Hope this helps DeanH > I have replaced my old computer using Word 2000 with a computer with MS > Vista and Office 2007 [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > thanks, Davy > Since both the new and old .dic files should be able to be opened > with, say, Notepad, why not copy and paste over the old entries into > the new file? If you find the 2007 .dic file in Windows Explorer and > open, you should be able to do the paste. > Hope this helps > DeanH Dean, thanks for the idea. Unfortunately in Windows Vista it is not possible to open the user/application data/ folder where I believe custom.dic is stored - access is denied by Vista. I believe you can only access the folders through the application that controls them. Davy Click Office button, Word Options, Proofing, Custom Dictionaries. There, you will be able to Add the desired .dic file and set it as your new default. You can either keep both, or remove the old one, if desired.  SignatureHerb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com >> Since both the new and old .dic files should be able to be opened >> with, say, Notepad, why not copy and paste over the old entries into [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > Davy > Click Office button, Word Options, Proofing, Custom Dictionaries. > There, you will be able to Add the desired .dic file and set it as > your new default. You can either keep both, or remove the old one, if > desired. Herb, unfortunately, as I said in my original post, when I do what you suggest Word 2007 says it cannot import the dictionary since it needs to be in unicode format - and thats the problem Davy Sorry... I left out a step. I got the same error. So... I opened the file with Word, then resaved it in plain text format, setting the encoding to Unicode. To keep the .dic extension, you'll need to put the whole name in quotes--otherwise, Word will add a .txt extension. So, for example, I saved it as "custom2.dic". Once done, I was then able to proceed as indicated in the earlier message. SignatureHerb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com >> Click Office button, Word Options, Proofing, Custom Dictionaries. >> There, you will be able to Add the desired .dic file and set it as [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > Davy > Sorry... I left out a step. I got the same error. So... I opened the > file with Word, then resaved it in plain text format, setting the [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > Once done, I was then able to proceed as indicated in the earlier > message. Herb, excellent, worked a treat. Now its given me an idea how I might be able to import my normal.dot - open it in Word 2007 then save as template. Yes... although--that might've already happened automatically--if you upgraded from Word 2003 to Word 2007, Word 2007 looks for and uses your Normal.dot file the first time you start Word 2007, and then automatically creates Normal.dotm based on your Normal.dot file. SignatureHerb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com >> Sorry... I left out a step. I got the same error. So... I opened the >> file with Word, then resaved it in plain text format, setting the [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > Now its given me an idea how I might be able to import my normal.dot - > open it in Word 2007 then save as template. Alternatively, in my case, since Office 2007 was installed after 2003 was erased, I simply went into the templates subdirectory, deleted the new normal.dotx file, copied in a backup copy of my old normal.dot file. Word then created a new normal.dotx file when I opened Word. All my macros were there. I'm not sure if the new normal.dotx file it created imported all my macros or whether Word is using both templates at once, normal.dot and normal.dotx. I assume the former. Don't care, it works. SignatureMike Maguire http://pharmacology.case.edu/department/faculty/primary/maguire.html > Yes... although--that might've already happened automatically--if you > upgraded from Word 2003 to Word 2007, Word 2007 looks for and uses your [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > > Now its given me an idea how I might be able to import my normal.dot - > > open it in Word 2007 then save as template. Are you sure it's Normal.dotx? To contain macros, it would have to be Normal.dotm (which Word creates by default, macros or not... I've never seen the released version of Word create a Normal.dotx file unless I forced it to). SignatureHerb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com > Alternatively, in my case, since Office 2007 was installed after 2003 was > erased, I simply went into the templates subdirectory, deleted the new [quoted text clipped - 27 lines] >> > Now its given me an idea how I might be able to import my normal.dot - >> > open it in Word 2007 then save as template. Typing on autopilot, just typed dotx (from docx obviously) when i should have hit dotm. It's really dotm iin the folder. SignatureMike Maguire http://pharmacology.case.edu/department/faculty/primary/maguire.html > Are you sure it's Normal.dotx? To contain macros, it would have to be > Normal.dotm (which Word creates by default, macros or not... I've never seen [quoted text clipped - 32 lines] > >> > Now its given me an idea how I might be able to import my normal.dot - > >> > open it in Word 2007 then save as template. I figured... but thought I'd ask since one of the early beta versions *did* create a normal.dotx file, as I recall. :-) SignatureHerb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com > Typing on autopilot, just typed dotx (from docx obviously) when i should > have [quoted text clipped - 44 lines] >> >> > normal.dot - >> >> > open it in Word 2007 then save as template. > > Dean, thanks for the idea. Unfortunately in Windows Vista it is not > > possible to open the user/application data/ folder where I believe > > custom.dic is stored - access is denied by Vista. I believe you can only > > access the folders through the application that controls them. > > > > Davy Hi. It is possible to open all files/folders in Vista too. First of all, you have to set a hidden files and folders visible in Folder options Second, you nave to go to users/application data NOT via shortcuts (on desktop for example), but through Explorer of other file manager - starting from c:. Third, as I remember, even when Vista does not allow me to do something with files/folders, I can go through Rclick on file/folder->Properties->Security and give to my account appropriate rights (modify or change is enough in most cases). In that way you do not have to "play" with "" in names from MsWord. Regards The custom.dic can be accessed through the path %appdata%\microsoft\UProof >> > Dean, thanks for the idea. Unfortunately in Windows Vista it is not >> > possible to open the user/application data/ folder where I believe [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > >Regards
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