entourage outgoing mail; word dictionary

[G. Stein]

Good Morning,
I am having the following problems with Office X.
I am not sure what software interacts with what, so I am posting this to all
applicable groups.

1) WORD: I get this ³warning² whenever I open Word or any Word document.

The custom dictionary Rangers: Applications: Microsoft Office X:
Office: En...is not available

However it does do a spell check in both WORD and ENTOURAGE.

2) ENTOURAGE: I am trying to send mail out and am unable to.
I have tried by configuring both ENTOURAGE and Email (within System
preferences:Internet:email)
to use my Yahoo hosted web site and tried via my .Mac account.
Nothing ! I am unsure if this ³posting² will go and how.

3) ENTOURAGE: Am unable to access newsgroups, only the
Microsoft News Server.


Any and all assistance would be appreciated.

THANKs,
Gary



System Info: all fully updated

OS 10.2.8

Microsoft Office X

Mac G4; 466; 384 ram; 30g drive (using 5g)

Internet access: cable modem via Linksys 2.4 router,
I share with a friends PC. I do not use the cable email
service, nor is my MAC configured to access their services.

 

[John McGhie [MVP - Word]]

Hi Gary:

1) Please do not batch your questions up. Use a separate post for each
question. Or: to put that another way: we do not care whether you batch
your questions or not, but the people who help here are scanning only the
subject lines of the messages at high speed. They skip any post that has
already been answered. They are specialists, and do not read the body of
the post unless the subject is within their topic area, so two of your three
questions are likely to never be seen by the people most likely to be able
to help you.

OK, I will take Word question. There is a procedure in the Help named
"Activate and use a custom dictionary" which you should carry out. When you
do, you will find that Word is looking for a custom dictionary file that
does not exist.

You should not have custom dictionaries anywhere but the local drive. You
can, but you get these problems if there are network disruptions: if you
keep them local there's one less source of bother.

Yes, a missing custom dictionary will not disable spelling, it just disables
access to the words in the custom dictionary.

I usually name my Custom Dictionary to something other than Custom
Dictionary, so I can tell immediately that it is my personal dictionary and
not the default just by looking at it.

Now: I suggest that you place the Entourage questions in their own posts
and repeat them, because some of our Entourage specialists may skip the post
since I have answered the Word section.

Hope this helps

Good Morning,
I am having the following problems with Office X.
I am not sure what software interacts with what, so I am posting this to all
applicable groups.

1) WORD: I get this ³warning² whenever I open Word or any Word document.

The custom dictionary Rangers: Applications: Microsoft Office X:
Office: En...is not available

However it does do a spell check in both WORD and ENTOURAGE.

2) ENTOURAGE: I am trying to send mail out and am unable to.
I have tried by configuring both ENTOURAGE and Email (within System
preferences:Internet:email)
to use my Yahoo hosted web site and tried via my .Mac account.
Nothing ! I am unsure if this ³posting² will go and how.

3) ENTOURAGE: Am unable to access newsgroups, only the
Microsoft News Server.


Any and all assistance would be appreciated.

THANKs,
Gary



System Info: all fully updated

OS 10.2.8

Microsoft Office X

Mac G4; 466; 384 ram; 30g drive (using 5g)

Internet access: cable modem via Linksys 2.4 router,
I share with a friends PC. I do not use the cable email
service, nor is my MAC configured to access their services.

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John McGhie, Consultant Technical Writer,
McGhie Information Engineering Pty Ltd
Sydney, Australia. GMT + 10 Hrs
+61 4 1209 1410, mailto:[email protected]