 |
 | Home | Contact Us | FAQ | Search & Site Map | Link to Us |
 | Sign In | Join | Other 45 Sites in Network |
Mac Forum / Applications / Word / May 2008Custom Dictionary is not available
Version: 2008 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) Processor: intel I just received my new computer and Office 2008 a couple days ago and my spell/grammar check is not picking up my missed spelled words. I will intentionally miss spell words to see if it will work, but it does not notice the miss spelled words. I have made sure that under the Tools>Language section the 'do not check spelling or grammar' is not selected. Also I have gone under Preferences>Spelling and Grammar>Dictionaries to find that my Custom Dictionary is under that language English (US). I have been trying to find the answers in this forum, but have only read (and tried) the same thing over and over again, but still the custom dictionary is not available. What is wrong with this? I need help, please. Are you actually getting a message which states that the custom dictionary is not available? You don't specifically say so. Have you tried the suggestions offered elsewhere in this thread? Have a look at the information & try the steps here: http://word.mvps.org/Mac/SpellCheck.html It sounds like you have text in the document which is formatted or "tagged" as a language other than what the dictionary is looking for. Pay particular attention to the topic "Spell-Check Doesn¹t Catch Misspelled Words". (Before you ask :-) one way this happens is by having pasted from another source. HTH |:>) Bob Jones [MVP] Office:Mac On 4/18/08 11:34 AM, in article ee98d66.-1@webcrossing.caR9absDaxw, > Version: 2008 > Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > over again, but still the custom dictionary is not available. What is wrong > with this? I need help, please. > Are you actually getting a message which states that the custom dictionary > is not available? You don't specifically say so. Have you tried the [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > http://word.mvps.org/Mac/SpellCheck.html The page mentions that the problam was solved in Office 11.2. I suspect that this is a problem new to Office 2008 (and a lot more people have seen it too). > It sounds like you have text in the document which is formatted or "tagged" > as a language other than what the dictionary is looking for. Pay particular > attention to the topic "Spell-Check Doesn't Catch Misspelled Words". (Before > you ask :-) one way this happens is by having pasted from another source. I've had the issue myself and a little bit of investigating told me that Office 2008 had messed up my custom dictionaries from Office 2004. I opened them up in BBEdit and I saw a myriad of encoding issues. THe file encoding didn't make any sense and all letters were separated by various sorts of gremlins. I found three workarounds: - trash the custom dictionary and start a new one (really sad when you have a lot of terms in the CD). - find the custom dictionary (CD) in the Finder, drag it to the icon for Word in the Dock to open it there. If it looks more or less OK (as a simple list of terms), make a modification aand save. This seems to fix encoding issues. - open the CD in a text editor, and copy all the terms there. Create a new CD from Word, open it in a text Editor (or in Word) and paste all the terms. Corentin  Signature--- Mac:MS MVP http://www.cortig.net/wordpress/ --- http://www.mvps.org - http://mvp.support.microsoft.com MVPs are not MS employees - Les MVP ne travaillent pas pour MS Remove "NoSpam" to e-mail me - Retirez "NoSpam" pour m'écrire Hi Corentin - No doubt 2008 has "issues of its own" which have yet to be resolved, but I did refer the poster to the earlier messages in the thread which include some of your own suggestions:-)... Pretty clever the 'drag to the icon' trick! Also, take a look at the top of that page - the new title trailer; Updated for Word 2008 (DRAFT in Progress) I just figured that if all else failed it might be covered by that topic. Regards |:>) Bob Jones [MVP] Office:Mac On 4/18/08 1:16 PM, in article 1ifldod.ao0hy11274jmsN%korventeen@NoSpam.mvps.org, "Corentin Cras-Méneur" <korventeen@NoSpam.mvps.org> wrote: >> Are you actually getting a message which states that the custom dictionary >> is not available? You don't specifically say so. Have you tried the [quoted text clipped - 32 lines] > > Corentin |
Reply to this Message |
 Sign In
 Join
 My Latest Posts My Monitored Threads My Blog My Photo Gallery My Profile My Homepage Start New Thread Enable EMail Alerts Rate this Thread
|
©2008 Advenet LLC Privacy Policy - Terms of Use
This website includes both content owned or controlled by Advenet as well as content owned or controlled by third parties.