Custom dictionary full? What to do?

[how786]

I got a message that my custom dictionary is full and I cannot add more
words.
What can I do about this? Hard to believe that the word limit is so low.
(I'm using Office 2000)

Thanks
How786

 

[TF]

You can create another custom dictionary, but first check to see how many
words are in the custom.dic. It is only a TEXT list, so is easy to check.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

The message is almost certainly bogus. See "'The custom dictionary is full.
The word was not added' error message in Word 2000" at
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=224035

 

[aalaan]

Yes, I can't imagine that the custom dictionary was really full.. Don't know
the limit but it must be several Ks, which in text form is a *lot* of words.

 

[TF]

IIRC, I think it is 100kb - which as you say is a fair number or works in
plain text!

Terry

 

[Cindy M.]

Hi Tf,

IIRC, I think it is 100kb

I think it was changed in Word 2000 or 2002 and now
officially has not limit. (Post from an MSFT person in the
spelling.grammar group... Quite a while ago.)

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update
Jun 17 2005)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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[TF]

No wonder I have never filled it then!

Thanks Cindy. Terry