Spell check for medical terminology

[amberh0005]

Is there an add-on for spell check in word that contains medical terminology?

 

[JoAnn Paules]

There are third-party ones available.

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JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

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How to ask a question
http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375

 

[garfield-n-odie [MVP]]

http://www.stedmans.com
http://www.spellex.com
http://www.dorlands.com

No, these are not free. If you want a free spellchecker, make your own.

 

[Jay Freedman]

Is there an add-on for spell check in word that contains medical
terminology?

There are a couple of ways to go about this. You can add a custom dictionary
(which is really just a text file with a list of correctly spelled words) to
the built-in spelling checker, or you can get an add-in that hooks into
Word.

For the first, try the custom dictionary linked at
http://lawyersrighthand.com/2007/04/04/add-a-free-medical-dictionary-to-your-microsoft-word/.
The instructions there are reasonable, and you can also read
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/EditCustomDic.htm and
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/help/HA010483191033.aspx.

Add-ins are almost always commercial software with fairly hefty prices. The
most popular seem to be Stedman's Medical Dictionary
(http://www.stedmans.com) and SpellEx
(http://spellex.com/products/definitions/meddic.htm).

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Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
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