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MS Office Forum / Word / Spelling and Grammar / September 2003inserting symbols into custom dictionary
Every time I try to add a word with a greek letter, it says the dictionary is full. If it's a word without greek letters, it adds fine. any ideas?? Hi Ryan, > Every time I try to add a word with a greek letter, it > says the dictionary is full. If it's a word without > greek letters, it adds fine. any ideas?? Word's custom dictionaries don't support symbols. Perhaps you can use AutoCorrect to insert things with symbols? Cindy Meister  SignatureINTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jan 24 2003) http://www.mvps.org/word This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) The custom.dic file is an ANSI file. Manually converting this file to Unicode will allow saving both English and Greek script and having these words be accepted by the spell checker. Note that this will only work with the English spell checker in Office 2000, Office XP, and Office 2003. Also, converting the file to Unicode will prevent the custom dictionary from being loaded by other language spell checkers. -------------------- >Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 17:05:00 +0200 >Mime-Version: 1.0 >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit >X-Newsreader: Virtual Access by Ashmount Research Ltd, http://www.ashmount.com >Message-ID: <VA.00008576.00a6cb28@speedy> >Subject: Re: inserting symbols into custom dictionary [quoted text clipped - 28 lines] >follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail >:-) Hi Lester, > Manually converting this file to > Unicode will allow saving both English and Greek script and having these > words be accepted by the spell checker. Thanks for this info, Lester :-) So, one would open it in Word, for example, then specify saving to Unicode Text? Cindy Meister > Hi Lester, > [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > Cindy Meister It would probably be easier (and safer) to just open it in Notepad, and then use the Unicode option in the File>SaveAs dialog. I would be also be careful if you have other applications which access the common user dictionary, as these may crash or error-out if they encounter a unicode text file. I would keep the mixed-script text in a separate read-only custom dictionary. A drawback of this however is that Word is the only Microsoft application that is aware of additional custom dictionaries. > Every time I try to add a word with a greek letter, it > says the dictionary is full. If it's a word without > greek letters, it adds fine. any ideas?? Non-ANSI characters may not be added to a custom dictionary. English custom dictionaries will only accept single words with hyphens or apostrophes, and no other characters. Greek words require a greek-spellchecker. For the scientific(?) or medical(?) context you are hinting at, you would require a specialized spell-checker. |
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