How do I download a medical dictionary to Office 2003?

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Diann SN - 21 Oct 2006 03:21 GMT

Is there any way to add a medical dictionary to Word 2003 (spell check). I'm
in nursing school and I've been writing treatment plans and papers which
makes it really difficult to do when medical terms come up as questionable
spelling. I was hoping to integrate another dictionary that Word would
recognize and make my life easier.

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Shauna Kelly - 21 Oct 2006 04:09 GMT

Hi Diann

You can add your own terms to your own custom dictionary. When you find a
term that you know is correct, but is marked as an error, right-click the
word and choose "Add to dictionary".

Alternatively, you can buy a medical dictionary:
http://www.google.com.au/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLG,GGLG:2005-4
6,GGLG:en&q=microsoft+word+medical+dictionary

Hope this helps.

Shauna Kelly. Microsoft MVP.
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word

> Is there any way to add a medical dictionary to Word 2003 (spell check).
> I'm
> in nursing school and I've been writing treatment plans and papers which
> makes it really difficult to do when medical terms come up as questionable
> spelling. I was hoping to integrate another dictionary that Word would
> recognize and make my life easier.

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Poseur - 21 Oct 2006 06:12 GMT

>> Is there any way to add a medical dictionary to Word 2003
>> (spell check). I'm
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>> hoping to integrate another dictionary that Word would
>> recognize and make my life easier.

Diann,
Those add-ons are darn expensive.I've made my own, starting
with the relevant lists of words for various specialties on
On-Line Medical Dictionary (http://cancerweb.ncl.ac.uk/omd/).
Right now it is in unicode cause I use 2007 but if you'd like
it I'd be happy to send it. I have separate ones for medical
and pharmaceutical words (taken from another database of
terms). I could probly figure out how to get it back to
standard windows text. Then you just put it in documents and
settings\you\application data\microsoft\proof and finally you
have to "add" it to your custom dictionaries via options,
something, something which I forget cause it's different in
2007.

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