Re: Custom Dictionary difficulties
- From: John McGhie <john@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 11:29:13 +0800
Hi Charles:
Eeeewwwww..... Serious weirdness :-)
I replied directly to Charles. For the benefit of others with "Custom
Dictionary Unavailable" problems, here is what I said:
* * * * *
What you sent was NOT a "Custom Dictionary" :-) At least: It is not a Word
2008 custom dictionary :-)
Word can't use the dictionary unless the format is exactly correct. It's
not actually a "Text File", it's a "Database Table". And it should have NO
file name extension.
To fix that is easy: You create a NEW Custom Dictionary in Word
Preferences>Spelling and Grammar>Custom Dictionaries>New...
Then COPY from the text file and Paste>Special>Unformatted Text into the new
custom dictionary. Make CERTAIN that you have your Show/Hide on so you can
see your paragraph marks and spaces when you do this, because otherwise you
cannot see what you are doing.
The TXT file you sent me was very strange. It had Windows line endings in
it: that will prevent Word from using the thing. That's easy enough to fix:
you search for "^p^p" and replace with "^p".
But it also had a very strange symptom: I think the character-set must have
been an Arabic character set (or maybe an Asian character set) originally.
Because every letter had a space after it! I don't know how it got into
that condition!! Because of this, Search/replace for spaces wouldn't work.
So I copied the whole thing back out of the custom dictionary and pasted
into a blank document.
I then Searched for " " (a space) and replaced with "" (nothing). A custom
dictionary should have no spaces in it. Then I pasted from the document
back into the custom dictionary, and used Edit>Clear>Clear formats to remove
the formatting.
I then ran the thing and spell-checked a lump of biblical scholarship I
found on the Internet. I added a few Hebrew words, so I hope they spelled
them right! It's working OK here.
Cheers
On 11/07/08 2:53 AM, in article OPIKN7r4IHA.2064@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "cs"
<cs@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
John McGhie wrote:
Hi John:
OK, so it didn't work. Can you please email me a copy of the custom
dictionary and I will batter them around the head and body with it.
But I think you have put your finger on the problem: they just haven't done
it properly and all the promises of better efforts in future have yet to
produce much result :-)
If you want some real frustration, try mounting a couple of custom
dictionaries for different languages in different network folders and
sharing them with the whole company.
You can do this easily in WinWord, so one person can properly maintain the
company's spelling standard. Try it in Mac Word and you might as well call
the nice men in white coats to take you away right now...
Thanks for your help and support. Mail on it's way to you.
Regards from Dallas, Texas
Charlie (chscag@xxxxxxxxx)
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