I need an information regarding maximum document size that spelling check
can handle before it becomes unstable.
I cant find any information about that...
thanks in advance,

We are looking at creating a custom dictionary and exclusion list before we
rollout Office 2003.  One thing which would be hepful is to be able to view
the default UK english dictionary which Word uses to check against.  I
understand its a .lex file which is a compressed binary ...

I have a person with an upgrade from Office 2000 to 2003. Spell ck died. The
office language shows English under MS office tools>....language settings.
When you are in Word, Grammar is the only function that shows up. In the
settings Spelling options are greyed out. Outlook Tools ...

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I just realized that Word 03 does not detect the lack of space in the
following case:
"the boy has $21.He forgot his purse."
this even if checking space after end of sentence is checked in settings.

Is it possible to create an exclude dictionary that is associated with a
custom dictionary rather than a language? If so, how? If not, is there
another way to have a custom dictionary exclude certain words when it's
selected? Thanks.

Can anyone tell me how to  spell this *. I know it is something like aerstic
or aristix. I can't find it in spell check because I must be way off.
Can anyone please help?
Bob Dallago

I did research and did not find this question anywhere.
Example phrase:  American Certified Public Accountants
In an instance, the "L" in "Public" was omitted accidentally.  Now, of
course, Word would not consider that word "Pubic" as a mispelled word because

does anyone know how to create one spell checker that can be used for
language variants?
E.g. there are English US (0x0409  American English ) and English UK
(0x0809 English). The standard Microsoft spell checker has one dll

Word uses lex files for it spelling dictionary.  does any one know how to
read, edit, and/or create new lex files.
Any programs out there to do this??
I know about custom dictionaries option but that will not work for this

Does anyone know if there is a bug in word 2003?  The spell checker
seems to be working randomly.  For example in one document it allowed
the following words to be spelt incorrectly:-
Quotring

I need Russian Proofing Tools for Word 2002. I bought by mistake
Proofing Tools 2003 and they refused to install. Is there a way to make
them work with Word 2002? If not, what the official name for the
equivalent package for Word 2002?

For some specific documents, when I try to run the speller+grammar checker,
I get the following 2 complains:
Word cannot find the grammar file msgr??32.dll.
Word cannot find the speller file msspell3.dll or mssp232.dll