Re: Comprehensive spelling

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terryc wrote:
I've upgraded to Office 2007. I have a comprehensive spelling disk
(medical terminology) for Word 6.0 and it won't install without 6.0
installed. Any ideas? Or is there a way to import medical terminology
into a custom dictionary?

That depends on the format in which the spelling disk stores its word list.

If it's a plain text file, or if you can export it to a plain text file,
then you can make a copy and open it in Notepad. Use the Save As command and
set the Encoding dropdown to Unicode (Word 2007 requires Unicode, not ANSI),
and save it into the Proofing folder under your profile that also contains
Custom.dic (exact location depends on your Windows version). The file name
can be anything you choose. Use the Word Options > Proofing > Custom
Dictionaries dialog to add the new dictionary.

If, as is more likely, the spelling disk stores the word list in a
proprietary binary format, and if it has no export capability, then you
can't do anything with it. You could see if the publisher offers an
upgrade -- but if the program is as old as Word 6.0, that isn't very likely
either.

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