custom dictionary changes

[Neil]

Hi,

I'd like to create a Word add-on which lets people post words that
they've just added to their custom dictionary to an online resource,
so we can all collectively marvel at how quickly new words get adopted
into the lexicon (and hence into custom dictionaries).

I can't see any easy ways (without just writing a .Net app to read the
custom.dic file directly) to do this - any ideas?

Cheers, Neil

 

[Jean-Guy Marcil]

Hi,

I'd like to create a Word add-on which lets people post words that
they've just added to their custom dictionary to an online resource,
so we can all collectively marvel at how quickly new words get adopted
into the lexicon (and hence into custom dictionaries).

I can't see any easy ways (without just writing a .Net app to read the
custom.dic file directly) to do this - any ideas?

Yep, that would be the way to go.

The other way that comes to mind is to highjack the "Add to Dictionary"
command in Word and replace it with your own code that would do what Word
does and then send the word to the online resource you mentioned.

However, this option appears both in contextual menus and in the Spelling
dialog box... Seems like a lot of work.

I believe it would be easier to have an add-on run to check the user custom
dictionary list against the database, if any new words are found in the
custom dictionary, add them to the databse...