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Word 2007 beta - how to use existing dictionary?
I'm trying the Office 2007 beta and wish to make use of my existing
custom.dic, created in Word XP, in Word 2007. However, when I try to 'add new dictionary' I am told 'files without Unicode encoding can't be added to the dictionary list. Save the file as a Unicode file to add it to the dictionary list.' How? I've tried various methods to convert the existing into Unicode but without success. Does anyone know how it's done? (Other than pasting the existing dictionary into a new document and adding them one at a time, I have nearly 1,000 words, others must have more.) TIA |
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Word 2007 beta - how to use existing dictionary?
You don't have to paste words one at a time. :-)
Open the existing custom.dic file in Word. Click File Save As. Set the "Save as type" box to "Plain text (*.txt)". Word will suggest the file name custom.txt. Change that to custom.dic (or any other name with a .dic extension) and click OK. Next you'll get a File Conversion dialog. Click the "Other encoding" radio button, and then choose Unicode from the list on the right. (Don't choose any of the Unicode variants, such as UTF-8.) Click OK. Now you should be able to load the file as a custom dictionary. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. On Thu, 27 Jul 2006 21:00:42 +0100, Peter Johnson wrote: I'm trying the Office 2007 beta and wish to make use of my existing custom.dic, created in Word XP, in Word 2007. However, when I try to 'add new dictionary' I am told 'files without Unicode encoding can't be added to the dictionary list. Save the file as a Unicode file to add it to the dictionary list.' How? I've tried various methods to convert the existing into Unicode but without success. Does anyone know how it's done? (Other than pasting the existing dictionary into a new document and adding them one at a time, I have nearly 1,000 words, others must have more.) TIA |
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Word 2007 beta - how to use existing dictionary?
On Thu, 27 Jul 2006 22:14:37 -0400, Jay Freedman
wrote: Open the existing custom.dic file in Word. Click File Save As. Set the "Save as type" box to "Plain text (*.txt)". Word will suggest the file name custom.txt. Change that to custom.dic (or any other name with a .dic extension) and click OK. Next you'll get a File Conversion dialog. Click the "Other encoding" radio button, and then choose Unicode from the list on the right. (Don't choose any of the Unicode variants, such as UTF-8.) Click OK. Now you should be able to load the file as a custom dictionary. Thanks Jay. You are a star. I'd nearly got there before but had been deterred by the warning about losing formatting, which I took to mean also encoding, when saving as text. Thanks again. |
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