In recent Word buttons there's a Modify... button when you click on the
Custom.dic in Tools | Options | Spelling and Grammar | Custom Dictionaries.

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"LittleLamb" wrote in message
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its not a text document. when i open it by
toolsoptionsSpelling&GrammarCustom Dictionariesdictionaries then
highlight the dictionary and click edit, I'm not able to edit this one. I
can
any of the ones I ahve actually added, but this one is there already.
these
words "came into being" by doing a spell check and then clicking "add"
instead of "change" and so now they are there and I need to delete them.

"Jay Freedman" wrote:

LittleLamb wrote:
Its not my dictionary, its called CUSTOM.DIC, but from what I can
tell its Microsoft Word's dictionary of words I have told it to add
to its dictionary. Now I want to delete these words from its
dictionary. Does anyone know how to do that?

You can go the official route: Tools Options Spelling & Grammar
Custom
Dictionaries Modify.

Or, since Custom.dic is just a plain-text file, you can simply edit it
in
NotePad. You should find it in the folder C:\Documents and
Settings\username\Application Data\Microsoft\Proof.

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