Any way to use Apple spell-check in Word?

[James Howison]

I hate having to maintain two dictionaries. And the style of English
(Aus) is different across the Applespell and MS dictionaries.

Anyway to do it? Is there documentation of the format tht Word
expects of its dictionaries? Are there conversion scripts---maybe I
could get a cron job to copy the converted apple spell dictionary to
the right place and format for Word (which I really only use rarely
....)

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur [MVP]]

I hate having to maintain two dictionaries. And the style of English
(Aus) is different across the Applespell and MS dictionaries.

Nope. The function would have to be implemented and since Word already
has a spell checker, I doubt they wiull ever use the Apple one...

Anyway to do it? Is there documentation of the format tht Word
expects of its dictionaries? Are there conversion scripts---maybe I
could get a cron job to copy the converted apple spell dictionary to
the right place and format for Word (which I really only use rarely
...)

That's a different issue. You might be able to convert the list. I just
don;t know what format the Apple spell checker stores its list though...


Corentin

 

[John McGhie [MVP - Word]]

Hi James:

No: Sorry. The Word Main Dictionary is a compiled database with all common
flavours of English in it.

A Word custom dictionary is plain text, but it will not hold enough words.
You would also need a massive Exclude Dictionary to exclude the content of
the main dictionary. It would become too unwieldy.

Sorry about that.


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I hate having to maintain two dictionaries. And the style of English
(Aus) is different across the Applespell and MS dictionaries.

Anyway to do it? Is there documentation of the format tht Word
expects of its dictionaries? Are there conversion scripts---maybe I
could get a cron job to copy the converted apple spell dictionary to
the right place and format for Word (which I really only use rarely
...)

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