Spell Check

[Bill_Reckmeyer]

Version: 2008 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) Processor: Intel How do I make sure the "Add" button is always available when checking spelling? It's there for some words, but not for others.

 

[John McGhie]

Ensure that your Custom Dictionary is set to "No Language".

If you set the custom dictionary to English US, then come to some text
pasted from a web page that was marked with English UK, Word's spelling
checker will be operating in English UK for hat piece of text.

If there is only one custom dictionary, and it's marked as English US, when
the spelling checker is working in another version of English, it appears
that there is no custom dictionary, so ADD is greyed out.

Hope this helps

Version: 2008 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) Processor: Intel
How do I make sure the "Add" button is always available when checking
spelling? It's there for some words, but not for others.

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[Bill_Reckmeyer]

John-

Thanks - worked perfectly. Does this mean the added words will be in the custom dictionary, no matter what base language I'm using?

 

[John McGhie]

Yes, that's the idea.

There are 29 "flavours" of English, not all of them available on the Mac.
Your Custom Dictionary will now accept words from all of them.

Cheers

John-

Thanks - worked perfectly. Does this mean the added words will be in the
custom dictionary, no matter what base language I'm using?

This email is my business email -- Please do not email me about forum
matters unless you intend to pay!

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John McGhie, Microsoft MVP (Word, Mac Word), Consultant Technical Writer,
McGhie Information Engineering Pty Ltd
Sydney, Australia. | Ph: +61 (0)4 1209 1410
+61 4 1209 1410, mailto:[email protected]