Backing up Office user dictionary

[Steve Silverwood]

Guess the lines between student and teacher are pretty blurry in the
newsgroups -- usually I find myself the teacher, but today I'm the
student with his hand up in the air asking questions....

So: how do I back up and restore the user dictionary in Office 2007?

By the term "user dictionary," I mean the dictionary that contains the
words where I right-click on a word flagged by Office -- any component
of Office, be it OneNote or Word or whatever -- and opt to add the
word to the dictionary.

Thanks in advance.

//Steve//

Steve Silverwood, KB6OJS
Email: (e-mail address removed)
Web: http://kb6ojs.com

 

[Rainald Taesler]

So: how do I back up and restore the user dictionary in Office 2007?

By the term "user dictionary," I mean the dictionary that contains
the words where I right-click on a word flagged by Office -- any
component of Office, be it OneNote or Word or whatever -- and opt
to add the word to the dictionary.

Pretty easy:
Open Word or Outlook, then use the "Office Button";
then at the bottom of the window select "Word Options";
in the list on the left select the third item "Document Checking";
click on the button "User Dictionaries".

In the Dialog you are shown which user dictionaries are in use and below
that the path (under Vista it's %APPDATA%\Microsoft\UProof, could be
different in XP).
Then go there and save the *.DIC files to a save place/medium.

HTH
Rainald

 

[Steve Silverwood]

Pretty easy:
Open Word or Outlook, then use the "Office Button";
then at the bottom of the window select "Word Options";
in the list on the left select the third item "Document Checking";
click on the button "User Dictionaries".

In the Dialog you are shown which user dictionaries are in use and below
that the path (under Vista it's %APPDATA%\Microsoft\UProof, could be
different in XP).
Then go there and save the *.DIC files to a save place/medium.

HTH
Rainald

Helps a lot, thanks. However, there are some other files in there:

Volume in drive C is KB6OJS Serial number is 1a39:f279
Directory of C:\Users\steve\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\UProof\*

27-11-2008 09:17 <DIR> .
27-11-2008 09:17 <DIR> ..
29-11-2008 08:30 5,574 CUSTOM.DIC
25-03-2008 17:44 2 ExcludeDictionaryEN0c09.lex
06-12-2007 04:29 2 ExcludeDictionaryEN0409.lex
14-04-2008 16:25 2 ExcludeDictionaryEN0809.lex
06-02-2008 14:15 2 ExcludeDictionaryEN1009.lex
06-02-2008 14:15 2 ExcludeDictionaryFR0c0c.lex
5,584 bytes in 6 files and 2 dirs 28,672 bytes allocated
31,787,495,424 bytes free

What are the .LEX files?

Hmmm... "LEX Files" -- sounds like a good name for a geeky sci-fi
conspiracy mystery movie...!

//Steve//

Steve Silverwood, KB6OJS
Email: (e-mail address removed)
Web: http://kb6ojs.com

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PS: I have a =very= cool little tool called Take Command (TCMD for
short) from JP Software (www.jpsoft.com). It's a command-window
replacement with a lot of enhancements (extended command parameters,
whole new commands, an extended batch-file scripting language, a
user-customizable toolbar at the top of the window, and so forth).

One such enhancement is the use of additional devices. Remember doing
DOS stuff like "DIR > LPT1:" to get a printout of a directory? I did
"DIR > CLIP:" to send the above directory list directly to the
clipboard!

I have TCMD version 8.02, which is pretty much just a DOS-like window
-- the new 9.0 version has a -=LOT=- more bells and whistles, which I
have only just started to explore in the eval version I just
downloaded.

They also have a stripped-down freebie version, although I haven't
tried the current version of that tool just yet so I don't know how
much of the current version of the full product is contained in this
limited version.

Just thought I'd mention a cool tool I have in my arsenal that I just
used, figuring someone else might find it equally useful for their own
needs.

[For public notice: I have no connection with JP Software other than
that of being a very satisfied customer for quite a few years.]

//S//

 

[Rainald Taesler]

Helps a lot, thanks. However, there are some other files in there:

Volume in drive C is KB6OJS Serial number is 1a39:f279
Directory of C:\Users\steve\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\UProof\*

27-11-2008 09:17 <DIR> .
27-11-2008 09:17 <DIR> ..
29-11-2008 08:30 5,574 CUSTOM.DIC
25-03-2008 17:44 2 ExcludeDictionaryEN0c09.lex
06-12-2007 04:29 2 ExcludeDictionaryEN0409.lex
14-04-2008 16:25 2 ExcludeDictionaryEN0809.lex
06-02-2008 14:15 2 ExcludeDictionaryEN1009.lex
06-02-2008 14:15 2 ExcludeDictionaryFR0c0c.lex
5,584 bytes in 6 files and 2 dirs 28,672 bytes allocated
31,787,495,424 bytes free

What are the .LEX files?

It's "LEX" as the abbreviation for "Lexicon" (= dictionary).
As you see they all have a size of 2b and do they not contain any info
(except FF FE hex)
AFAICS they are system files for MS PROOFing system (for Office12 they
were/are) in the "UPROOF" subdirectory.
I can not say what they might be good for.

The only "LEX file which contains info is the file "UserDictionary.lex"
in the WindowsMail subdirectory. It's the user-dictionary for
spellchecking of WinMail (which unfortunately - different from it's
predecessor OE - does not use the Office spellchecking system
{siiiiigh}.

Hmmm... "LEX Files" -- sounds like a good name for a geeky sci-fi
conspiracy mystery movie...!
LOL

PS: I have a =very= cool little tool called Take Command (TCMD for
short) from JP Software (www.jpsoft.com).

Thanks for the hint.
I'm always thankful for hints on software other experienced folks have
in their toolbox.

[For public notice: I have no connection with JP Software other than
that of being a very satisfied customer for quite a few years.]

;-) ;-)
Thought you were earning a lot of money by advertising in NGs <bg,d&r>

Rainald

 

[Steve Silverwood]

Thanks for the hint.
I'm always thankful for hints on software other experienced folks have
in their toolbox.

No problem. I'm not entirely thrilled with the huge redesign of their
9.0 version -- the 8.0 version did the job nicely without all the
fancy menus and such. It was essentially a souped-up command window.

[For public notice: I have no connection with JP Software other than
that of being a very satisfied customer for quite a few years.]

;-) ;-)
Thought you were earning a lot of money by advertising in NGs <bg,d&r>

Don't I wish -- I'd like to be "earning a lot of money" doing just
about ANYTHING these days (caveat: legal, honest work, preferably in
the IT industry).

//Steve//

Steve Silverwood, KB6OJS
Email: (e-mail address removed)
Web: http://kb6ojs.com

 

[Rainald Taesler]

Steve Silverwood wrote:

[JP software]

No problem. I'm not entirely thrilled with the huge redesign of
their 9.0 version -- the 8.0 version did the job nicely without
all the fancy menus and such. It was essentially a souped-up
command window.

Unfortunately too many applications have been spoilt by
"over-featuritis", some even killed (like AmiPro by Lotus WordPro, f.e.)

[For public notice: I have no connection with JP Software other
than that of being a very satisfied customer for quite a few
years.]

;-) ;-)
Thought you were earning a lot of money by advertising in NGs
<bg,d&r>

Don't I wish -- I'd like to be "earning a lot of money" doing just
about ANYTHING these days (caveat: legal, honest work, preferably in
the IT industry).

Does not sound too good :-( :-(
Unfortunately I can not be of help in any way :-(
Strange world, this world. Over here in Germany we have the crazy
situation that even most experienced IT-professionals do hardly have any
change to find a new job on the one side and there's a serious lack of
IT-people so that they are importing staff from India OTH - let alone
all that "outsourcing to Bangalore" hype. {siiiigh}

Rainald