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MS Office Forum / Word / Menus and Toolbars / June 2004DEFAULT dictionary
Does anyone know where the DEFAULT dictionary is loaded for Word??? I'm not looking for the custom.dic ...I'm looking for the dictionary that is inside Word...before you add anything custom??? Thank you for any help :) Amy In Word 2002, the default location is C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Proof. The U.S.-English dictionary filename is MSSP3EN.LEX. You can search for this file on your computer to see where it is located. > Does anyone know where the DEFAULT dictionary is loaded > for Word??? I'm not looking for the custom.dic ...I'm [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > Thank you for any help :) > Amy Amy, You don't say why you wanted to know this location, but just in case you were thinking of trying to modify it, you should know that it isn't editable or even human-readable. The only mechanism for adding words is the use of custom dictionaries, and the only mechanism for removing words is the use of an exclusion dictionary (http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/ExcludeWordFromDic.htm). >In Word 2002, the default location is C:\Program Files\Common >Files\Microsoft Shared\Proof. The U.S.-English dictionary filename is [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] >> Thank you for any help :) >> Amy -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word Thank you both soooo much. Finally I got the right answers :)))))))) >-----Original Message----- >Amy, [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] >words is the use of custom dictionaries, and the only mechanism for >removing words is the use of an exclusion dictionary (http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/ExcludeWordFromDic.htm) . >>In Word 2002, the default location is C:\Program Files\Common >>Files\Microsoft Shared\Proof. The U.S.-English dictionary filename is [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] >Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word >. |
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