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Mac Forum / Applications / Word / November 2005Dictionary problems
All, I have some dictionary issues with Word 2004. I have set the language under TOOLS to English (UK) but Word identifies the word 'colour' as mis-spelt. The only options for correction is the American spelling, 'color'. There is also no option to add the correct spelling to the dictionary as ADD as an option is 'greyed out'. I have tried deleting and recreating the 'custom dictionary' to see if that helps but no such luck. Can anyone advice? Mark Hi Mark, What language is your keyboard set to? If you set it to Brittish and set the language to English (UK) do you still find the same issue? As regards the custom dictionary, when you created the new dictionary is it showing up as active in the Spelling and Grammar Preferences? Thanks, Fergal. > All, > [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > > Mark I am using a UK PowerBook with a British (English UK) keyboard. The Custom Dictionary is set and visable from the Spelling and Grammer Preferences. If I choose 'DICTIONARIES' next to the item I can see the 'Custom Dictionary' is selected and the language is 'English UK'. Marky > Hi Mark, > [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] >> >> Mark When you type 'Colour' and select Tools / Spelling does the language in the Speller say English (US)? If so you can either select all the text in your document and change the language to English (UK), you can also click on the Default button to change the defaul language to English (UK). Only use the default setting if you will be using English (UK) for all your documents! Let me know if this helps? Fergal. >I am using a UK PowerBook with a British (English UK) keyboard. > [quoted text clipped - 31 lines] >>> >>> Mark Okay, I highlighted the word in the document and choose TOOLS and LANGUAGE. It again had selected 'English US'. Changed to 'English UK' and it seems fine. Highlighted all the text in the document and did the same. It asked if I wanted to change the normal.dot file and I answered yes. I guess it had become stuck in the wrong language settings. I still can't add new words to the custom dictionary. Any ideas there? Marky > When you type 'Colour' and select Tools / Spelling does the language in > the Speller say English (US)? [quoted text clipped - 41 lines] >>>> >>>> Mark Can you try and recreate another custom dictionary and this time do not set the language to English (UK) to the custom dictionary? Maybe the setting got mixed up when changing from English (US) to (UK). Fergal. > Okay, I highlighted the word in the document and choose TOOLS and > LANGUAGE. It again had selected 'English US'. Changed to 'English UK' [quoted text clipped - 51 lines] >>>>> >>>>> Mark Thank you. That seemed to do the trick. I deleted the existing Custom Dictionary which was stored in APPLICATIONS/MICROSOFT OFFICE 2004/OFFICE and created a new folder in <USER>/LIBRARY/APPLICATION SUPPORT/ called MICROSOFT. I then created a new custom dictionary with UK language in this folder and typed a mis-spelt word and tried to add to the dictionary. It worked fine. :-) Marky > Can you try and recreate another custom dictionary and this time do not > set the language to English (UK) to the custom dictionary? Maybe the [quoted text clipped - 58 lines] >>>>>> >>>>>> Mark Side note: While Application Support makes a lot of sense, another good place to store the Custom Dictionary is in user/library/preferences/microsoft, and then it is stored in the same place as your preference files and the autocorrect list, and you can just back up that entire Microsoft folder regularly, or the entire prefs folder. > Thank you. That seemed to do the trick. I deleted the existing Custom > Dictionary which was stored in APPLICATIONS/MICROSOFT OFFICE [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] >> >>> I still can't add new words to the custom dictionary. Any ideas there? Hi Mark: Please note a couple of things that may help: 1) I normally set the custom dictionary to "No Language". That's because I normally use only one custom dictionary. 2) If you set a language on a custom dictionary, you MUST have more than one custom dictionary. Word will attempt to find a custom dictionary for the language of the text. If it can't, it will look for a custom dictionary set to "No Language". If that's missing, you get the problem that Word can't add words to the custom dictionary. 3) The language used by the spelling checker is the language returned from the text of the document. This language varies word-by-word, sentence-by-sentence. The language can be marked directly on a string of text, it can be inherited from the style applied to the text, it can be inherited from the document, or from the application (Word) or from the Keyboard, or from the System. The language the spelling checker actually uses is the language specification "closest to" the word being considered. So: When you set a language, you are telling Word that a custom dictionary can be used ONLY in the language you set, and if you do not also provide a dictionary set to No Language, or have a custom dictionary for every language in the world, Word will have no place to write new words. Hope this is clear... > Thank you. That seemed to do the trick. I deleted the existing Custom > Dictionary which was stored in APPLICATIONS/MICROSOFT OFFICE [quoted text clipped - 69 lines] >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Mark  SignaturePlease reply to the newsgroup to maintain the thread. Please do not email me unless I ask you to. John McGhie <john@mcghie.name> Microsoft MVP, Word and Word for Macintosh. Consultant Technical Writer Sydney, Australia +61 4 1209 1410 |
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