Office 2004 Word Dictionaries

[Glenn Heilemann]

Every time I open Word (Office 2004, Mac) I get the following warning:

The custom dictionary "English Dictionary" is not available.

The spell checking doesn¹t work in Word, but if great in Entourage.

I have reinserted the installation CD and drug the English Dictionary to the
desktop and replaced the generic one in the ³Office² folder within
Applications that goes along with ³Dictionary #2. I am still having the same
problem.

Does anyone have any advice how to correct this problem?

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

I'm a little confused here--there's a English Dictionary (actually 2)
installed by default in applications/office 2004/office, but a custom
dictionary should be a dictionary that you created yourself, to hold words
that aren't in the regular dictionary (e.g., your last name). Are you
confusing the two, or did you create a custom dictionary and name it English
Dictionary?

Note that custom dictionaries are merely Documents, and can be named
anything, while the English Dictionary in apps/office/office is listed under
kind as Microsoft Office Dictionary. Those (I assume) are the default
dictionaries used by the program to spellcheck.

I keep my custom dictionary in username/library/preferences/microsoft,
though I don't think it matters, so long as the dictionary file in question
is loaded with the correct path in Word | Preferences, Spelling & Grammar
tab, click on Dictionaries....Doublecheck that all information in that
dialog matches the reality. (If you tried to load an English Dictionary
file as a custom dictionary, that may be causing the error message).

DM

 

[John McGhie]

Hi Glenn:

The problem is not with the ³English Dictionary², it¹s with the CUSTOM
dictionary. The custom dictionary is a text file with a user-definable name
(the default name is ³Custom Dictionary² but you may have changed it). The
³English Dictionary² is the compiled binary on the CD that is installed with
the software.

The problem is that this dictionary has been set to a ³language² other than
³English² but remains ³Activated². So Word keeps looking for the ³English²
version and it¹s not there.

Read the Help about Custom Dictionaries for more information. The easiest
fix is probably to shut down every part of Microsoft Office (including
Entourage) then DELETE your Custom Dictionary: Word will create a new blank
one when it restarts.

Hope this helps

Every time I open Word (Office 2004, Mac) I get the following warning:

The custom dictionary "English Dictionary" is not available.

The spell checking doesn¹t work in Word, but if great in Entourage.

I have reinserted the installation CD and drug the English Dictionary to the
desktop and replaced the generic one in the ³Office² folder within
Applications that goes along with ³Dictionary #2. I am still having the same
problem.

Does anyone have any advice how to correct this problem?

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