If I type "Winnepesaukee," I get two suggested corrections: "Winnipesaukee"
and "Winnipesauke." If the lake in New Hampshire ("Winnepesaukee") is the
only spelling you will ever use, then the solution is to add that spelling
to your custom.dic. Create an exclusion dictionary and add "Winnipesaukee"
and "Winnipesauke." Make sure that "Suggest from main dictionary only" is
not checked. That should ensure that whatever spelling you use,
"Winnepesaukee" would be the only suggestion. This is a baseline suggestion:
what you would do with Word out of the box.
In your case, however, it seems that you're getting "Winnepesauke" suggested
as a correction? I don't see how that can possibly be happening unless that
spelling is either in the main lexicon or in Custom.dic. If you are
confident that you have removed it from Custom.dic *and* you have added it
to the exclusion dictionary, then I really don't see how it can possibly be
popping up as a suggestion.
FWIW, if I google for "Winnepesaukee," Google asks if I mean
"Winnipesaukee." Although there are many hits for "Winnepesaukee" that refer
to the lake in New Hampshire, there are many more for "Winnipesaukee,"
including
http://www.winnipesaukee.com/, the official home page for the lake
in question. Are you positive that your spelling is correct?
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"Gail Devoid" wrote in message
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I think the only solution would be to uninstall Word, and reinstall it;
however, I have customized it so much that I will not do that.
The best solution I have is to autocorrect Winnepesauke to Winnepesaukee.
At
least if I misspell the word, autocorrect will catch it first. But if I
spell
it Winnipesaukee, the wrong spelling is still a suggestion.
Either the Lake in New Hampshire needs to be renamed, or MS Word needs to
correct a deficiency in the area of spelling suggestions. Of course I have
spelled it so many time the last few days, I may not misspell it in the
future. smile
Thanks for your suggestions. I know more about dictionaries than I ever
did.
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:
I'm stumped, too. If you deleted the word from the Custom.dic, saved the
Custom.dic, restarted Word (and Windows, if necessary)...I can't think
of
anything else that might be required.
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"Gail Devoid" wrote in message
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I created the file mssp3en.exc, included the misspelling, and put the
file
in the Proof folder this afternoon. That did not correct the
situation.
I am really stumped with this one.
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:
Then perhaps the spelling you're trying to remove is actually in the
Word
spelling lexicon. See
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/Ex...ordFromDic.htm
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"Gail Devoid" wrote in
message
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No, there is only one custom.dic.
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:
Possibly you have more than one custom dictionary?
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