I would like to read the complete spelling list installed with Word. It
seems to accept two spellings: inquiry, enquiry

Both are perfectly valid words with different meanings.
The main dictionary is not editable.

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org




MarvinWN wrote:
I would like to read the complete spelling list installed with Word.
It seems to accept two spellings: inquiry, enquiry

Although it is true that the main dictionary is not editable, you can
"remove" a word from the dictionary by creating an exclusion dictionary. See
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/Ex...ordFromDic.htm

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"Graham Mayor" wrote in message
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Both are perfectly valid words with different meanings.
The main dictionary is not editable.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org




MarvinWN wrote:
I would like to read the complete spelling list installed with Word.
It seems to accept two spellings: inquiry, enquiry

Thank you, Graham. I thought so and Websters confirmed it (I'm an English,
German, Spanish, Russian, computer science teacher), but although it's not
editable, I would like to be able to browse the read-only information in it.
/\/\arvin -

"Graham Mayor" wrote:

Both are perfectly valid words with different meanings.
The main dictionary is not editable.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org




MarvinWN wrote:
I would like to read the complete spelling list installed with Word.
It seems to accept two spellings: inquiry, enquiry

Thank you, Suzanne. That's nice to know. Graham Mayor's reply is also
appreciated. However, I should be able to browse the listing of spelling
words contained in a read-only, un-editable file of some sort.
/\/\arvin -

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

Although it is true that the main dictionary is not editable, you can
"remove" a word from the dictionary by creating an exclusion dictionary. See
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/Ex...ordFromDic.htm

--
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.

"Graham Mayor" wrote in message
...
Both are perfectly valid words with different meanings.
The main dictionary is not editable.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org




MarvinWN wrote:
I would like to read the complete spelling list installed with Word.
It seems to accept two spellings: inquiry, enquiry

Sadly that is not possible.

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org




MarvinWN wrote:
Thank you, Graham. I thought so and Websters confirmed it (I'm an
English, German, Spanish, Russian, computer science teacher), but
although it's not editable, I would like to be able to browse the
read-only information in it. /\/\arvin -

"Graham Mayor" wrote:

Both are perfectly valid words with different meanings.
The main dictionary is not editable.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org




MarvinWN wrote:
I would like to read the complete spelling list installed with Word.
It seems to accept two spellings: inquiry, enquiry

To elaborate on Graham's short but correct answer, the main dictionary is
not a list of words that you could browse. It's a binary-format file
organized for special access by the computer. It contains word roots,
prefixes and suffixes, and data for making rules about regular and irregular
constructions, and all of that is machine-encoded. You would need a special
program to follow all the possible paths through the data. If such a program
exists, only the programmers who created the dictionary have it.

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

MarvinWN wrote:
Thank you, Graham. I thought so and Websters confirmed it (I'm an
English, German, Spanish, Russian, computer science teacher), but
although it's not editable, I would like to be able to browse the
read-only information in it. /\/\arvin -

"Graham Mayor" wrote:

Both are perfectly valid words with different meanings.
The main dictionary is not editable.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org




MarvinWN wrote:
I would like to read the complete spelling list installed with Word.
It seems to accept two spellings: inquiry, enquiry