Spellcheck Dictionary Problems

[Laura]

If the Spellcheck dictionary contains words that are incorrectly spelled, how do you remove them so that your documents are not corrected wrongly?
For example: I typed "indors" (an incorrect spelling of "indoors"), and the pop-up menu suggested "indorse" (an incorrect spelling of "endorse"). I assume someone else who had used the computer previously entered it into the dictionary, not realizing that it was incorrect, but I wish to be able to correct this sort of mistake in the dictionary to prevent future users from making the same mistake unwittingly.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Go to Tools | Options | Spelling & Grammar and click the button for Custom
Dictionaries. You can open Custom.dic and edit it from there (you can also,
with Word closed, open and edit it in Notepad, as it is just a text file).

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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If the Spellcheck dictionary contains words that are incorrectly spelled,

how do you remove them so that your documents are not corrected wrongly?

For example: I typed "indors" (an incorrect spelling of "indoors"), and

the pop-up menu suggested "indorse" (an incorrect spelling of "endorse"). I
assume someone else who had used the computer previously entered it into the
dictionary, not realizing that it was incorrect, but I wish to be able to
correct this sort of mistake in the dictionary to prevent future users from
making the same mistake unwittingly.

 

[Dave Neve]

Hi Sue (and Laura)

I had a little voice on this one telling me that there is something wrong.

It's unlikely (but my no means impossible) that someone has entered
'indorse' into a customizable dictionary.

So I set my spell check to 'American' and I typed 'indors' and lo and
behold, the pop up window suggested 'indorse'. (I am the sole user of my
computer so no one has typed it in)

So I think it's in the .lex dictionary which you can't change (I think it
was you Sue who told me this some time back)

So it now remains for someone to tell us what 'indorse' means in American
English.

Regards

Dave Neve

 

[Mike Williams [MVP]]

So it now remains for someone to tell us what 'indorse' means in
American English.

"indorse" is listed as an alternate spelling to "endorse"

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=indorse

It's also listed as such in Webster's and in Fowler's Modern English Usage
(published by Oxford)

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

If you don't want the spell checker to allow "indorse," however, you can
exclude it. See
http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/General/ExcludeWordFromDic.htm.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.mvps.org/word
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