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Medical spelling checker?
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 |
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Medical spelling checker?
You can have as many custom dictionaries as you like; they are just text
files, and you can add words to them as needed. The specific custom dictionary must be selected as the default if you want added words to go into it. See the Help topic "Create and use custom dictionaries." If your wife would prefer to buy a medical dictionary add-in, one possibility is Stedman's. See http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/se...902895-4854369 -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "mscertified" wrote in message ... 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 |
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Medical spelling checker?
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. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org |
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Medical spelling checker?
There is another one: As-U-Type (http://www.asutype.com/). Their
software supports both spell check as you type feature and text expansion; and they have a free trial. After installing it, download the medical spelling dictionary from their dictionary page (see http://www.asutype.com/dictionaries.html) and you'll have a decent medical spell checker with text expansion capability. It works with ALL applications including Word and IE. --mark Jay Freedman wrote: 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. |
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