"Add to Dictionary" button greyed out

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Chris Watson

I had to reinstall MS Office on my system (10.3.2) and now am unable to save
words to my custom dictionary while in Entourage (v10.1.4). The system sees
the custom dictionary but the Add button is disabled.

I recall this happening before but don¹t remember how to re-enable this
function.

Any thoughts? TIA,

Chris
 
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Anil

Hi,
I think you need to select your custom dictionary first, before trying to add any word to it. That's why it's grayed out.
Goto Entourage preferences and on spelling tab select the custom dictionary.

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Subject: "Add to Dictionary" button greyed out
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I had to reinstall MS Office on my system (10.3.2) and now am unable to save
words to my custom dictionary while in Entourage (v10.1.4). The system sees
the custom dictionary but the Add button is disabled.

I recall this happening before but don¹t remember how to re-enable this
function.

Any thoughts? TIA,

Chris
 
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Diane Ross

I think you need to select your custom dictionary first, before trying to add
any word to it. That's why it's grayed out.
Goto Entourage preferences and on spelling tab select the custom dictionary.
Click to expand...


Be sure the Custom Dictionary is at the top of the list of dictionaries.
Entourage can only access the top dictionary in the list.
Go to MS Word/Preferences/Spelling & Grammar/Custom Dictionary, and browse
again to your Custom Dictionary. You're best leaving language as (none).
Restart your computer.
Now, try Entourage again.

Also note: Check display font. CE fonts (Monaco CE, Geneva CE, Helvetica CE,
Courier CE) can cause the problem. Change to a different font

Dictionary FAQs can be found here:

<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/faq_topic/dict.html>
 
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