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Moeeast - 21 Jan 2004 00:03 GMT

I am unable to locate my custom.dic by all methods
mentioned in the posts i have read. to cut to the chase -
my question is: Is there any other name, other than
custom.dic - where i might find this file?
im trying to copy my dictionary from old to new computer
(word 2000 to word 2003) It sure seemed simple - just
locate custom.dic - but no!!
Any help is appreciated. Thanks

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Cindy M -WordMVP- - 21 Jan 2004 16:52 GMT

Hi Moeeast,

> I am unable to locate my custom.dic by all methods
> mentioned in the posts i have read. to cut to the chase -
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> (word 2000 to word 2003) It sure seemed simple - just
> locate custom.dic - but no!!

A custom dictionary doesn't necessarily have be named
"custom.dic"; any name ending in *.dic will do. There's an
article on word.mvps.org about how to move your settings and
files between two computers. Have you read that?

You might start Word 2000 on the old computer and look for
the custom dictionary path in Tools/Options/Spelling and
Grammar/Custom dictionaries.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Sep
30 2003)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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Debbie Berkley [MSFT] - 24 Jan 2004 01:44 GMT

Have you tried searching for all files in your C drive named *.dic?
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>Any help is appreciated. Thanks

Deborah Milam Berkley
Microsoft Natural Language Group

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Carlos Arguelles [MSFT] - 27 Feb 2004 01:12 GMT

Actually your custom dic can be of any extension you want. Word "suggests" that you use a .DIC extension but you may
have added it with another extension, if you don't find any .DIC file in your machine.

Tools -> Options -> Spelling & Grammar --> Custom Dictionaries, then you can click on each custom dictionary in the list and
it'll tell you the Full Path in the bottom of the pane.

Good luck!

C

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