Exclude dictionary does not work

[Blueeye]

For some reason, my Exclude dictionary does not work. The help menu
dialog for Word 2004 recommended that the Exclude dictionary be placed
in the same folder as the main spelling dictionary. Hence, I have
saved it in the same folder as US English Spelling Dictionary which I
have located at Macintosh HD/Applications/Microsoft Office 2004/Shared
Applications/Proofing Tools/US English Spelling Dictionary.


The Word 2004 Help menu dialog also recommended saving the exclude
dictionary in Library/Preferences/Microsoft folder with the main
spelling dictionary. Hence I have saved aliases to both the exclude
dictionary and the main dictionary in ~/Library/Preferences/Microsoft
folder.
Nonetheless, the exclude dictionary does not work. Any suggestions on
how to correct this problem?

 

[Dayo Mitchell]

I'm not sure where or whether it's entirely accurate, but somewhere I picked
up the idea that the exclude dictionary has to have an extension of ".dic".
Might that help?

 

[Blueeye]

I'm not sure where or whether it's entirely accurate, but somewhere I picked
up the idea that the exclude dictionary has to have an extension of ".dic".
Might that help?

I have the dictionary extension appeneded but without avail. Do you
have any other ideas? Where have you located your exclude dictionary
and what did you name it?