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Word 2000 SP3, Win2000Pro
My personal dictionary is not registering one particular word that I have added. It registers all the other words I have entered, and the word is definitely there and remains there after shutdown, etc. When the spellchecker alights upon the word, it doesnt allow it, it doesnt give any other word options, and also it doesnt allow €śAdd€ť as an option. FYI: the word is €śAdds€ť. Also, I remember seeing on this Forum a comment that you can have €śdictionary€ť that contains words that are €śnot€ť allowed, but cannot remember what terms to use for a useful search. Can you remind me how a €śNot-Dictionary€ť is created and maintained? Many thanks DeanH |
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I'm not sure I understand...
The word "adds" is a legitimate word, so I don't see why the spell checker "...alights upon it..." in the first place, let alone why you would need to add it to a custom dictionary. Also, since it is an allowable word there would be no reason to offer another form of the verb any more than it would for any other (ie, "walk" to replace "walks"). Further, if the word is in the dictionary (main or custom) it *should* be accepted, not that it *shouldn't*. Can you clarify exactly what you are expecting? BTW - IIRC, the exceptions dictionary feature has been broken for some time, but I'm not sure & have never used it. Perhaps someone else can comment on that. -- Regards |:) Bob Jones [MVP] Office:Mac "DeanH" wrote in message ... Word 2000 SP3, Win2000Pro My personal dictionary is not registering one particular word that I have added. It registers all the other words I have entered, and the word is definitely there and remains there after shutdown, etc. When the spellchecker alights upon the word, it doesn't allow it, it doesn't give any other word options, and also it doesn't allow "Add" as an option. FYI: the word is "Adds". Also, I remember seeing on this Forum a comment that you can have "dictionary" that contains words that are "not" allowed, but cannot remember what terms to use for a useful search. Can you remind me how a "Not-Dictionary" is created and maintained? Many thanks DeanH |
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Thanks for replying.
I agree with your first comment, that "adds" is a legitimate word, but I added it to the dictionary because my spellchecker continually displayed it as incorrect. So I manually added it to the .dic file. And still the word is found by the checker. What I am expecting is that the spellchecker will never again find the word to be incorrect. I have removed it from the .dic file, closed down, then rechecked. Rerun Spellchecker, the word is found. Reinsert the word back into the .dic file. Rerun and the word is found again. Frustrating, especially as the documents I work with usually have 20+ occurrences (obviously using Ignore All helps). The Exceptions Dictionary (IIRC ??) would be great to use as the authors I deal with constantly misspell many terms we use and I would like a quick & easy way of finding these once their copy has been copied into the new document. If anyone out there can answer mine and CyberTaz's query, we would be grateful. Many thanks DeanH "CyberTaz" wrote: I'm not sure I understand... The word "adds" is a legitimate word, so I don't see why the spell checker "...alights upon it..." in the first place, let alone why you would need to add it to a custom dictionary. Also, since it is an allowable word there would be no reason to offer another form of the verb any more than it would for any other (ie, "walk" to replace "walks"). Further, if the word is in the dictionary (main or custom) it *should* be accepted, not that it *shouldn't*. Can you clarify exactly what you are expecting? BTW - IIRC, the exceptions dictionary feature has been broken for some time, but I'm not sure & have never used it. Perhaps someone else can comment on that. -- Regards |:) Bob Jones [MVP] Office:Mac "DeanH" wrote in message ... Word 2000 SP3, Win2000Pro My personal dictionary is not registering one particular word that I have added. It registers all the other words I have entered, and the word is definitely there and remains there after shutdown, etc. When the spellchecker alights upon the word, it doesn't allow it, it doesn't give any other word options, and also it doesn't allow "Add" as an option. FYI: the word is "Adds". Also, I remember seeing on this Forum a comment that you can have "dictionary" that contains words that are "not" allowed, but cannot remember what terms to use for a useful search. Can you remind me how a "Not-Dictionary" is created and maintained? Many thanks DeanH |
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I'm as mystified by Dean's description as you are. We'll just have to wait
for a clarification, if there is one. The exclusion dictionary feature isn't broken, it's just poorly described in the help. See http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Genera...ordFromDic.htm for better instructions. -- 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. CyberTaz wrote: I'm not sure I understand... The word "adds" is a legitimate word, so I don't see why the spell checker "...alights upon it..." in the first place, let alone why you would need to add it to a custom dictionary. Also, since it is an allowable word there would be no reason to offer another form of the verb any more than it would for any other (ie, "walk" to replace "walks"). Further, if the word is in the dictionary (main or custom) it *should* be accepted, not that it *shouldn't*. Can you clarify exactly what you are expecting? BTW - IIRC, the exceptions dictionary feature has been broken for some time, but I'm not sure & have never used it. Perhaps someone else can comment on that. "DeanH" wrote in message ... Word 2000 SP3, Win2000Pro My personal dictionary is not registering one particular word that I have added. It registers all the other words I have entered, and the word is definitely there and remains there after shutdown, etc. When the spellchecker alights upon the word, it doesn't allow it, it doesn't give any other word options, and also it doesn't allow "Add" as an option. FYI: the word is "Adds". Also, I remember seeing on this Forum a comment that you can have "dictionary" that contains words that are "not" allowed, but cannot remember what terms to use for a useful search. Can you remind me how a "Not-Dictionary" is created and maintained? Many thanks DeanH |
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I have never had any problem using the exclusion dictionary; for more see
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/Ex...ordFromDic.htm. If Word is flagging "adds" as incorrect, it may be because it is in an existing exclusion dictionary (unlikely if you haven't created one) or because the word is tagged as a language other than English or because some character in the word is from a symbol font or the like. Wrt the last suggestion: words such as "don't" will often be marked as incorrect in documents converted from WordPerfect because the document was created using characters from the WP Typographic Symbols font for apostrophes, quotes, dashes, and the like; since Word doesn't recognize the apostrophe in "don't" as an apostrophe, it marks the word as incorrect. -- 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. "DeanH" wrote in message ... Thanks for replying. I agree with your first comment, that "adds" is a legitimate word, but I added it to the dictionary because my spellchecker continually displayed it as incorrect. So I manually added it to the .dic file. And still the word is found by the checker. What I am expecting is that the spellchecker will never again find the word to be incorrect. I have removed it from the .dic file, closed down, then rechecked. Rerun Spellchecker, the word is found. Reinsert the word back into the .dic file. Rerun and the word is found again. Frustrating, especially as the documents I work with usually have 20+ occurrences (obviously using Ignore All helps). The Exceptions Dictionary (IIRC ??) would be great to use as the authors I deal with constantly misspell many terms we use and I would like a quick & easy way of finding these once their copy has been copied into the new document. If anyone out there can answer mine and CyberTaz's query, we would be grateful. Many thanks DeanH "CyberTaz" wrote: I'm not sure I understand... The word "adds" is a legitimate word, so I don't see why the spell checker "...alights upon it..." in the first place, let alone why you would need to add it to a custom dictionary. Also, since it is an allowable word there would be no reason to offer another form of the verb any more than it would for any other (ie, "walk" to replace "walks"). Further, if the word is in the dictionary (main or custom) it *should* be accepted, not that it *shouldn't*. Can you clarify exactly what you are expecting? BTW - IIRC, the exceptions dictionary feature has been broken for some time, but I'm not sure & have never used it. Perhaps someone else can comment on that. -- Regards |:) Bob Jones [MVP] Office:Mac "DeanH" wrote in message ... Word 2000 SP3, Win2000Pro My personal dictionary is not registering one particular word that I have added. It registers all the other words I have entered, and the word is definitely there and remains there after shutdown, etc. When the spellchecker alights upon the word, it doesn't allow it, it doesn't give any other word options, and also it doesn't allow "Add" as an option. FYI: the word is "Adds". Also, I remember seeing on this Forum a comment that you can have "dictionary" that contains words that are "not" allowed, but cannot remember what terms to use for a useful search. Can you remind me how a "Not-Dictionary" is created and maintained? Many thanks DeanH |
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Suzanne & Jay - Thanks for the clarification on the Exclusions - as I said,
I wasn't sure but apparently had it confused with something else... now I just have to remember *what*?:-} Dean - Are you sure the spell check isn't picking up the word as a _grammatical_ error as opposed to a _spelling_ error?... does it display in red or in green? -- Regards |:) Bob Jones [MVP] Office:Mac "Jay Freedman" wrote in message ... I'm as mystified by Dean's description as you are. We'll just have to wait for a clarification, if there is one. The exclusion dictionary feature isn't broken, it's just poorly described in the help. See http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Genera...ordFromDic.htm for better instructions. -- 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. CyberTaz wrote: I'm not sure I understand... The word "adds" is a legitimate word, so I don't see why the spell checker "...alights upon it..." in the first place, let alone why you would need to add it to a custom dictionary. Also, since it is an allowable word there would be no reason to offer another form of the verb any more than it would for any other (ie, "walk" to replace "walks"). Further, if the word is in the dictionary (main or custom) it *should* be accepted, not that it *shouldn't*. Can you clarify exactly what you are expecting? BTW - IIRC, the exceptions dictionary feature has been broken for some time, but I'm not sure & have never used it. Perhaps someone else can comment on that. "DeanH" wrote in message ... Word 2000 SP3, Win2000Pro My personal dictionary is not registering one particular word that I have added. It registers all the other words I have entered, and the word is definitely there and remains there after shutdown, etc. When the spellchecker alights upon the word, it doesn't allow it, it doesn't give any other word options, and also it doesn't allow "Add" as an option. FYI: the word is "Adds". Also, I remember seeing on this Forum a comment that you can have "dictionary" that contains words that are "not" allowed, but cannot remember what terms to use for a useful search. Can you remind me how a "Not-Dictionary" is created and maintained? Many thanks DeanH |
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Or some other color: in recent versions of Word, look at the "What do the
underlines in my document mean?" Help topic. -- 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. "CyberTaz" typegeneraltaz1ATcomcastdotnet wrote in message ... Suzanne & Jay - Thanks for the clarification on the Exclusions - as I said, I wasn't sure but apparently had it confused with something else... now I just have to remember *what*?:-} Dean - Are you sure the spell check isn't picking up the word as a _grammatical_ error as opposed to a _spelling_ error?... does it display in red or in green? -- Regards |:) Bob Jones [MVP] Office:Mac "Jay Freedman" wrote in message ... I'm as mystified by Dean's description as you are. We'll just have to wait for a clarification, if there is one. The exclusion dictionary feature isn't broken, it's just poorly described in the help. See http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Genera...ordFromDic.htm for better instructions. -- 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. CyberTaz wrote: I'm not sure I understand... The word "adds" is a legitimate word, so I don't see why the spell checker "...alights upon it..." in the first place, let alone why you would need to add it to a custom dictionary. Also, since it is an allowable word there would be no reason to offer another form of the verb any more than it would for any other (ie, "walk" to replace "walks"). Further, if the word is in the dictionary (main or custom) it *should* be accepted, not that it *shouldn't*. Can you clarify exactly what you are expecting? BTW - IIRC, the exceptions dictionary feature has been broken for some time, but I'm not sure & have never used it. Perhaps someone else can comment on that. "DeanH" wrote in message ... Word 2000 SP3, Win2000Pro My personal dictionary is not registering one particular word that I have added. It registers all the other words I have entered, and the word is definitely there and remains there after shutdown, etc. When the spellchecker alights upon the word, it doesn't allow it, it doesn't give any other word options, and also it doesn't allow "Add" as an option. FYI: the word is "Adds". Also, I remember seeing on this Forum a comment that you can have "dictionary" that contains words that are "not" allowed, but cannot remember what terms to use for a useful search. Can you remind me how a "Not-Dictionary" is created and maintained? Many thanks DeanH |
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