Custom Dictionary Rejects Additions

[Will Simmons]

Running Word 98 under OS 9.2.2 on a beige G3 with 352 MB Built-in memory.
I've searched this Group's Google archive and haven't found an explanation
of why my newest custom dictionary won't accept words for which I've
checked "add" in the spell check.

I have learned how to choose the dictionary's language (and what to expect
as a result); how to ensure that it is operative and ready to receive new
words (Via Tools-Preferences-Spelling & Grammar), etc. Indeed, my other
custom and exclude dictionaries are working just fine thanks in part to
advice received here.

In case it's important, please note that the "word" that the dictionary
won't take is a series of capital letters that folks in my specialty use in
place of a three word phrase, i.e. it's an acronym. (Never had trouble with
acronyms before.)

TIA as usual.

-- Will--

 

[John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh]]

Hi Will:

Check that the acronym is actually marked with the same language as the
custom dictionary, and that the acronym is not listed as an EXCEPTION.

Hope this helps

Running Word 98 under OS 9.2.2 on a beige G3 with 352 MB Built-in memory.
I've searched this Group's Google archive and haven't found an explanation
of why my newest custom dictionary won't accept words for which I've
checked "add" in the spell check.

I have learned how to choose the dictionary's language (and what to expect
as a result); how to ensure that it is operative and ready to receive new
words (Via Tools-Preferences-Spelling & Grammar), etc. Indeed, my other
custom and exclude dictionaries are working just fine thanks in part to
advice received here.

In case it's important, please note that the "word" that the dictionary
won't take is a series of capital letters that folks in my specialty use in
place of a three word phrase, i.e. it's an acronym. (Never had trouble with
acronyms before.)

TIA as usual.

-- Will--

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John McGhie <[email protected]>
Microsoft MVP, Word and Word for Macintosh. Consultant Technical Writer
Sydney, Australia +61 4 1209 1410

 

[Will Simmons]

Hi Will:

Check that the acronym is actually marked with the same language as the
custom dictionary, and that the acronym is not listed as an EXCEPTION.

Hope this helps

Sure does. It was "excepted" by my own Exclude Dictionary, in which, some
time ago, as I now remember, I placed the acronym for the very reason that
is has a special meaning in a field within which I work from time to time.
I wanted it flagged, and that's just what Word was doing.

Which just goes to show. . . .

Thanks much.

-- Will --