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jillybean777
Hi, I have been using word and after my upgrade to leopard I can no longer add words in my dictionary. the button is grayed out. any suggestions on how to fix this?
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John McGhie
Your Custom Dictionary has either gone missing or is not enabled.
Look up Custom Dictionary in the Word 2004 Help: there is a procedure there
for adding or enabling the custom dictionary.
It may be disabled because the language of your custom dictionary does not
match the language of the text you are now typing. "English" is not close
enough: it must match exactly -- there are 29 flavours of English.
It is best to assign "No language" to the Custom Dictionary, so it then
works regardless of the text language, and you don't get the current
problem.
Of course, that doesn't work if you need to work in multiple incompatible
foreign languages: then you need a new custom dictionary for each language.
But don't create multiple custom dictionaries unless you really have to:
maintaining them is a pain!!
Hope this helps
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John McGhie, Consultant Technical Writer
McGhie Information Engineering Pty Ltd
http://jgmcghie.fastmail.com.au/
Sydney, Australia. S33°53'34.20 E151°14'54.50
+61 4 1209 1410, mailto:[email protected]
Look up Custom Dictionary in the Word 2004 Help: there is a procedure there
for adding or enabling the custom dictionary.
It may be disabled because the language of your custom dictionary does not
match the language of the text you are now typing. "English" is not close
enough: it must match exactly -- there are 29 flavours of English.
It is best to assign "No language" to the Custom Dictionary, so it then
works regardless of the text language, and you don't get the current
problem.
Of course, that doesn't work if you need to work in multiple incompatible
foreign languages: then you need a new custom dictionary for each language.
But don't create multiple custom dictionaries unless you really have to:
maintaining them is a pain!!
Hope this helps
--
Don't wait for your answer, click here: http://www.word.mvps.org/
Please reply in the group. Please do NOT email me unless I ask you to.
John McGhie, Consultant Technical Writer
McGhie Information Engineering Pty Ltd
http://jgmcghie.fastmail.com.au/
Sydney, Australia. S33°53'34.20 E151°14'54.50
+61 4 1209 1410, mailto:[email protected]
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jillybean777
THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!!!! It totally worked. I thought I had it enabled and clearly I didn't. Now I can add all my chemistry and physics words that were giving me the horrible red underlines.
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Uli_Kunkel
Thank you both! I had the same problem and the fix worked for me too!