Learn spelling not working

[jenkinstoby]

Version: 2008 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) I can't right click and learn spelling of new words. It used to work before upgrading to snowleopard
any ideas? thanks

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

I can't right click and learn spelling of new words. It used to work before
upgrading to snowleopard <br>
any ideas? thanks

Go to the preferences and select your custom dictionary.
Click to edit it. It should open in Word and you can then add and remove
a space (the idea is to make Word see that you have made a
modification).
Then save, quit Word and try again. Does it work??

I suspect you have some sort of corruption and making a modification to
the dictionary and saving it will force Word to correct the file
encoding and eliminate the issue.

Corentin

 

[jenkinstoby]

thanks but it didn;t work
still no option to learn spelling
thanks for your idea

 

[John McGhie]

Then delete your custom dictionary and create a new one.

Make sure that the new one you create is set to "no language". For a custom
dictionary to work in any document, the language of the custom dictionary
must exactly match the language of each piece of text in the document, or,
the custom dictionary must be set to "no language" so it matches the
document text regardless of which language is set there.

Review the Word help topic "Create and use a custom dictionary"

Cheers

thanks but it didn;t work
still no option to learn spelling
thanks for your idea

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[Greg2013@OSU]

I'd been having the same problem; deleting the previous dictionary did the
trick. Thanks!

Also, you can access the old dictionary and re-add the words in it too if
you open the old dictionary as a word document in word, then tell it to learn
the spellings.

 

[John McGhie]

You can actually open the file in TextEdit, convert it to plain text, then
copy and paste the words from one to the other.

We hesitate to recommend that, because many people seem to have problems
getting the result saved in the correct format, and if they don't, Word
can't read it and we go around the circle again.

Cheers

I'd been having the same problem; deleting the previous dictionary did the
trick. Thanks!

Also, you can access the old dictionary and re-add the words in it too if
you open the old dictionary as a word document in word, then tell it to learn
the spellings.

This email is my business email -- Please do not email me about forum
matters unless you intend to pay!

--

John McGhie, Microsoft MVP (Word, Mac Word), Consultant Technical Writer,
McGhie Information Engineering Pty Ltd
Sydney, Australia. | Ph: +61 (0)4 1209 1410
+61 4 1209 1410, mailto:[email protected]