How to make Word 2008 use the custom global Mac OS X dictionary?

[Mister_E]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel

Hello,

I've made a lot of entries to the custom global dictionary feature that comes built-in with Mac OS X. Every Mac app uses this dictionary except for Word, very annoying. I was hoping Word 2008 would have a simple preference option to use the custom Mac OS X dictionary but no luck.

Could someone please tell me how to make Word use the same dictionary that all the other apps on my computer use? Also I want to be sure when I add a word (select learn option) that it goes into the global custom Mac OS X dictionary.

Apologies if this has already been covered here, I searched but nothing specific to doing this came up in the first few pages of results.

Thanks in advance for any help with this!

 

[John McGhie]

Yeah, this has cropped up once or twice.

Microsoft Office applications do not (and can not!) use the Apple
dictionary. I guess that won't change in this version.

You can use Help>Send Feedback in Word to suggest this as an enhancement for
the next version, Office 2010.

In the meantime, you can add the words from your Office custom dictionary to
your Apple custom dictionary, as described here:

http://www.tuaw.com/2006/08/12/edit-mac-os-xs-custom-spelling-dictionary/

Note that the Apple file is null-delimited, the Microsoft file has Unix
line-enders.

Hope this helps

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel

Hello,

I've made a lot of entries to the custom global dictionary feature that comes
built-in with Mac OS X. Every Mac app uses this dictionary except for Word,
very annoying. I was hoping Word 2008 would have a simple preference option to
use the custom Mac OS X dictionary but no luck.

Could someone please tell me how to make Word use the same dictionary that all
the other apps on my computer use? Also I want to be sure when I add a word
(select learn option) that it goes into the global custom Mac OS X dictionary.

Apologies if this has already been covered here, I searched but nothing
specific to doing this came up in the first few pages of results.

Thanks in advance for any help with this!

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[thg]

Every Mac app uses this dictionary except for Word

I don't think any MS or Adobe app, as well as common alternatives like
NeoOffice or OpenOffice or StarOffice, use the OS X system
spellchecking, and there is no way to make them so do. If you want to
use the same dictionary for all apps, you probably have to install
something like SpellCatcher X.

 

[thg]

I think to have the same dictionary for all apps you would need to
install SpellCatcher X or something like that. Actually there are
lots of apps, probably everything made by MS and Adobe and things like
NeoOffice, OpenOffice, StarOffice which do not use Apple's
spellchecking (which many consider somewhat primitive in any case).