mscertified wrote:
My wife is getting into medical transcription and a specialized
medical spelling checker would be most useful. Does anyone know if
such a thing is available for Word? How easy is it to create your own
specialized spelling checker?

thanks - david

The most popular medical spell checker is apparently Stedman's
(http://www.stedmans.com/product.cfm/439), but there are others on the
market, such as SpellEx (http://spellex.com/products/med.htm). Use Google to
look for them.

To create your own, there are two approaches. One is simply to type the
medical terms as they occur in documents; when Word flags one as a
misspelling, after you verify that it really is correct, click the Add
button to add the term to your custom dictionary. Over time, you'll build up
a medical dictionary.

The other approach is to prepare a list of correctly spelled medical words
in a plain text file, one word per line with no spaces or punctuation. (You
may find lists of words on the Net -- check Google.) Find out where your
custom dictionary is stored (in Tools Options Spelling & Grammar, click
the Dictionaries button). Open that file in Notepad and copy the medical
terms into it.

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Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org