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no more space in custom dictionary."
good evening all. i am running office xp on windows xp. (office build
10.2627.2625). many users sharing the system--includes doctors, engineers, insurance workers, biotechnologists and MBAs. as everuyone says "add to the dictionary" when a new word is encountered, it has reached the stage where it started saying--no more space in custom dictionary." can i somehow increase the space allotted to the custom dictionary? what is the remedy? i would like to state that all of us are NON TECHNOCRATS. meaning we know very little about the computer and the software. as the head of the family, i have been entrusted with the jobof finding a solution. help me please. tia. S.L.Narasimham. |
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You cannot change the maximum size of the custom dictionary as far as I
know and can determine. However, you can have more than one dictionary active. Only one can be set to have words added to it. To serve that function, the dictionary is set as the default. Start Word. Navigate to Options Spelling and Grammar Custom Dictionaries. Click on New. Right mouse click on custom.dic and change the name to anything you please. I used CUSTOM00.DIC. Cancel the window to exit. Word will create a new CUSTOM.DIC file and use it for the default. To add the old custom.dic for use, click Custom Dictionaries again and click on the box next to the file name to place an X in it. OK out. Alternately, you can create a new dictionary and set it as the default. New words will be added to it. While you are in that mode, consider editing the old dictionary to remove words that were accidentally added or are not needed any longer. Note that additional considerations arise if the machine has multiple user accounts. Each user account will have a different custom dictionary stored with the profile for the account. You will have to be signed in as that user to make the changes for that account. e.g. c:\Documents and Settings\User\Application Data\Microsoft\Proof Tom MSMVP Windows Shell/User "S.L.NARASIMHAM" wrote in message ... : good evening all. i am running office xp on windows xp. (office build : 10.2627.2625). many users sharing the system--includes doctors, engineers, : insurance workers, biotechnologists and MBAs. as everuyone says "add to the : dictionary" when a new word is encountered, it has reached the stage where : it started saying--no more space in custom dictionary." can i somehow : increase the space allotted to the custom dictionary? what is the remedy? : i would like to state that all of us are NON TECHNOCRATS. meaning we know : very little about the computer and the software. as the head of the family, : i have been entrusted with the jobof finding a solution. help me please. : tia. : S.L.Narasimham. : : |
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sorry i couldnot get back to you sooner. infact, saw the posst only now and
did all as suggested, including editing the custom.dic. i removed a few, may be 30-40 words. hopefully nobody will rile against me. but 30-40 words is not a big no. so, the new custom00.dic should come to my aid.--hopefully. and by the way, as i saw it, there were only a couple of hundred words added to the custom.dic. don't you feel it is very little room for adding words? we have only two profiles( one in my name and another in the name of my niece-an engineering student.) everybody (and his cousin) uses my profile. thanks a lot. S.L.Narasimham. "Tom Ferguson" wrote in message ... You cannot change the maximum size of the custom dictionary as far as I know and can determine. However, you can have more than one dictionary active. Only one can be set to have words added to it. To serve that function, the dictionary is set as the default. Start Word. Navigate to Options Spelling and Grammar Custom Dictionaries. Click on New. Right mouse click on custom.dic and change the name to anything you please. I used CUSTOM00.DIC. Cancel the window to exit. Word will create a new CUSTOM.DIC file and use it for the default. To add the old custom.dic for use, click Custom Dictionaries again and click on the box next to the file name to place an X in it. OK out. Alternately, you can create a new dictionary and set it as the default. New words will be added to it. While you are in that mode, consider editing the old dictionary to remove words that were accidentally added or are not needed any longer. Note that additional considerations arise if the machine has multiple user accounts. Each user account will have a different custom dictionary stored with the profile for the account. You will have to be signed in as that user to make the changes for that account. e.g. c:\Documents and Settings\User\Application Data\Microsoft\Proof Tom MSMVP Windows Shell/User "S.L.NARASIMHAM" wrote in message ... : good evening all. i am running office xp on windows xp. (office build : 10.2627.2625). many users sharing the system--includes doctors, engineers, : insurance workers, biotechnologists and MBAs. as everuyone says "add to the : dictionary" when a new word is encountered, it has reached the stage where : it started saying--no more space in custom dictionary." can i somehow : increase the space allotted to the custom dictionary? what is the remedy? : i would like to state that all of us are NON TECHNOCRATS. meaning we know : very little about the computer and the software. as the head of the family, : i have been entrusted with the jobof finding a solution. help me please. : tia. : S.L.Narasimham. : : |
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I think you can probably add more words to the custom dictionary. Often the
message that it is full is bogus. You might see "The custom dictionary is full. The word was not added" error message when you add a word to the custom dictionary in Word 2002 at http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=291176 -- 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. "S.L.NARASIMHAM" wrote in message ... sorry i couldnot get back to you sooner. infact, saw the posst only now and did all as suggested, including editing the custom.dic. i removed a few, may be 30-40 words. hopefully nobody will rile against me. but 30-40 words is not a big no. so, the new custom00.dic should come to my aid.--hopefully. and by the way, as i saw it, there were only a couple of hundred words added to the custom.dic. don't you feel it is very little room for adding words? we have only two profiles( one in my name and another in the name of my niece-an engineering student.) everybody (and his cousin) uses my profile. thanks a lot. S.L.Narasimham. "Tom Ferguson" wrote in message ... You cannot change the maximum size of the custom dictionary as far as I know and can determine. However, you can have more than one dictionary active. Only one can be set to have words added to it. To serve that function, the dictionary is set as the default. Start Word. Navigate to Options Spelling and Grammar Custom Dictionaries. Click on New. Right mouse click on custom.dic and change the name to anything you please. I used CUSTOM00.DIC. Cancel the window to exit. Word will create a new CUSTOM.DIC file and use it for the default. To add the old custom.dic for use, click Custom Dictionaries again and click on the box next to the file name to place an X in it. OK out. Alternately, you can create a new dictionary and set it as the default. New words will be added to it. While you are in that mode, consider editing the old dictionary to remove words that were accidentally added or are not needed any longer. Note that additional considerations arise if the machine has multiple user accounts. Each user account will have a different custom dictionary stored with the profile for the account. You will have to be signed in as that user to make the changes for that account. e.g. c:\Documents and Settings\User\Application Data\Microsoft\Proof Tom MSMVP Windows Shell/User "S.L.NARASIMHAM" wrote in message ... : good evening all. i am running office xp on windows xp. (office build : 10.2627.2625). many users sharing the system--includes doctors, engineers, : insurance workers, biotechnologists and MBAs. as everuyone says "add to the : dictionary" when a new word is encountered, it has reached the stage where : it started saying--no more space in custom dictionary." can i somehow : increase the space allotted to the custom dictionary? what is the remedy? : i would like to state that all of us are NON TECHNOCRATS. meaning we know : very little about the computer and the software. as the head of the family, : i have been entrusted with the jobof finding a solution. help me please. : tia. : S.L.Narasimham. : : |
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I see. In that case, check /Suzanne's suggestion. There is likely some error
involved. The dictionary will usually hold a great number of words. Tom MSMVP Windows Shell/User "S.L.NARASIMHAM" wrote in message ... sorry i couldnot get back to you sooner. infact, saw the posst only now and did all as suggested, including editing the custom.dic. i removed a few, may be 30-40 words. hopefully nobody will rile against me. but 30-40 words is not a big no. so, the new custom00.dic should come to my aid.--hopefully. and by the way, as i saw it, there were only a couple of hundred words added to the custom.dic. don't you feel it is very little room for adding words? we have only two profiles( one in my name and another in the name of my niece-an engineering student.) everybody (and his cousin) uses my profile. thanks a lot. S.L.Narasimham. "Tom Ferguson" wrote in message ... You cannot change the maximum size of the custom dictionary as far as I know and can determine. However, you can have more than one dictionary active. Only one can be set to have words added to it. To serve that function, the dictionary is set as the default. Start Word. Navigate to Options Spelling and Grammar Custom Dictionaries. Click on New. Right mouse click on custom.dic and change the name to anything you please. I used CUSTOM00.DIC. Cancel the window to exit. Word will create a new CUSTOM.DIC file and use it for the default. To add the old custom.dic for use, click Custom Dictionaries again and click on the box next to the file name to place an X in it. OK out. Alternately, you can create a new dictionary and set it as the default. New words will be added to it. While you are in that mode, consider editing the old dictionary to remove words that were accidentally added or are not needed any longer. Note that additional considerations arise if the machine has multiple user accounts. Each user account will have a different custom dictionary stored with the profile for the account. You will have to be signed in as that user to make the changes for that account. e.g. c:\Documents and Settings\User\Application Data\Microsoft\Proof Tom MSMVP Windows Shell/User "S.L.NARASIMHAM" wrote in message ... : good evening all. i am running office xp on windows xp. (office build : 10.2627.2625). many users sharing the system--includes doctors, engineers, : insurance workers, biotechnologists and MBAs. as everuyone says "add to the : dictionary" when a new word is encountered, it has reached the stage where : it started saying--no more space in custom dictionary." can i somehow : increase the space allotted to the custom dictionary? what is the remedy? : i would like to state that all of us are NON TECHNOCRATS. meaning we know : very little about the computer and the software. as the head of the family, : i have been entrusted with the jobof finding a solution. help me please. : tia. : S.L.Narasimham. : : |
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