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Sharing a custom dictionary?
I want to have my word additions to the speller available on all the
different computers I work on, without having to add them on every machine seperately. Is there a way to set up a custom dictionary on the web to be shared between several computers, either simultanously or one at a time? |
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Not over the web. The Add dialog that lets you add a custom dictionary does
not accept internet addresses. However, if there's some way you can set up a network drive name for it, it might be possible (using a VPN, for example?). You wouldn't be able to access it from multiple computers at the same time, however, due to permission issues. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Please respond in the newsgroups so everyone can follow along. http://www.herbtyson.com "Guy" wrote in message ... I want to have my word additions to the speller available on all the different computers I work on, without having to add them on every machine seperately. Is there a way to set up a custom dictionary on the web to be shared between several computers, either simultanously or one at a time? |
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Hi Herb,
what I have observed is, that a common custom dictionary on a network drive works without problems, whereby all my users have full access. However, adding new words to the dictionary fails for all users but the last one to close word. As it seems, the custom dictionary is read into the memory of the local machine, if Word is a local application, and written back on closing Word. Greetings from Bavaria, Germany Helmut Weber, MVP "red.sys" & chr(64) & "t-online.de" Word XP, Win 98 http://word.mvps.org/ |
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Thanks Herb,
But is there any [free] web service giving a little storage space that one can map as a network drive? Guy "Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote: Not over the web. The Add dialog that lets you add a custom dictionary does not accept internet addresses. However, if there's some way you can set up a network drive name for it, it might be possible (using a VPN, for example?). You wouldn't be able to access it from multiple computers at the same time, however, due to permission issues. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Please respond in the newsgroups so everyone can follow along. http://www.herbtyson.com "Guy" wrote in message ... I want to have my word additions to the speller available on all the different computers I work on, without having to add them on every machine seperately. Is there a way to set up a custom dictionary on the web to be shared between several computers, either simultanously or one at a time? |
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Thanks,
But is there any [free] web service giving a little storage space that one can map as a network drive? Guy "Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote: Not over the web. The Add dialog that lets you add a custom dictionary does not accept internet addresses. However, if there's some way you can set up a network drive name for it, it might be possible (using a VPN, for example?). You wouldn't be able to access it from multiple computers at the same time, however, due to permission issues. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Please respond in the newsgroups so everyone can follow along. http://www.herbtyson.com "Guy" wrote in message ... I want to have my word additions to the speller available on all the different computers I work on, without having to add them on every machine seperately. Is there a way to set up a custom dictionary on the web to be shared between several computers, either simultanously or one at a time? |
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