On reflection, my practice is to use the "ignore all" spell-checker function when an unusual word is likely to appear in only one or two documents. Apart from the risk of expanding the MS dictionary to the point that it stops working, an excess of words risks negating the MS dictionary's usefulness. If too many words are defined as correct, spell-checker may cease to find errors in everyday documents.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Nicol Oosthuizen" <NOosthuizen@xxxxxxxxxxx>No no, he's not talking about the jaws dictionary. He's talking about word's dictionary where you can add words while in the spell checker. In the spell checker there is an add button that you can press if the spell checker encountered a name and you want to add it to the dictionary so that it will not see it as a mistake the next time it encounters it. The problem that tickpub is encountering is that although he adds words to the spelling dictionary the spell checker still pops up the word as a mistake. Adrian, The dictionary you are thinking of is jaws' dictionary where you can have jaws pronounced a word differently than what it is written on the screen; nothing to do with spell checker. Tickpub, It might be that the current spelling dictionary is full. In that case you must go into your options under the tools menu. Go to the spelling tab and go to the combo box where you select the dictionaries. Remove the current dictionary and then if you add words in the spell checker it will create a new dictionary. It also happened to me that the dictionary became full. So see if you can find a remove button in that dialogue. If not, then you have to click edit and delete the contents of that dictionary like you would do with a normal word document and then save the dictionary and close it. hth
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