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Exclusion Dictionary in Word 2007
I see that you are right, according to
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/he...473031033.aspx. I guess MS decided to make the process easier by including an exclusion dictionary to begin with instead of making you create one. I'll keep this in mind when I get around to updating that article. Interestingly, though the specified ExcludeDictionaryEN0409.lex file is in the specified folder, it doesn't seem to be loaded by default, and it doesn't show up when you Browse in the Custom Dictionaries dialog in Word 2007. And, although the dialog does show my Word 2003 exclusion dictionary as loaded, Word clearly isn't using it. It's unfortunate that MS didn't make the exclusion dictionary as easy to edit (through Word Options) as the custom dictionary is. Moreover, I just opened the ExcludeDictionaryEN0409.lex file, added "pubic," and saved the file, and it still isn't marked incorrect in Word 2007. Oh, wait, you have to "press ENTER after each word." Now it works. Okay, thanks. That's still more of a pain than Word 2003. In that version, even though you had to create the file manually, you could get it to load in the Custom Dictionaries dialog so that you could edit it through the dialog instead of having to browse to it and edit it in WordPad. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "CaptionEditor" wrote in message ... Sorry, The locations for Word 2007 is (including the username) C:\Documents and Settings\(your username)\Application Data\Microsoft\UProof\ExcludeDictionaryEN0409.lex Thanks! David -- --D "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Please see the referenced article at http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/Ex...ordFromDic.htm. The exclusion dictionary must have an .exc extension. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "CaptionEditor" wrote in message ... Hi, Ken. Thanks for replying. If you are in Word 2007, go to: C:\Documents and Settings\captionuser\Application Data\Microsoft\UProof Underneath the CUSTOM.DIC you should see ExcludeDictionaryEN0409.lex Open this file using a text editor, such as Notepad. Enter any words you want Spellcheck to flag, such as "pubic" in lower case, each word followed by a hard return. To my understanding, Spellcheck will recognize any instance of each word in the list irrespective of case. For instance, it should flag "pubic," "Pubic," and "PUBIC." It does this in my Word 2003 fine. However, I've found in my Word 2007 that it doesn't catch the uppercase instances. And, yes, I have un-checked (un-ticked) the "Ignore Uppercase" box in Word 2007's Spellcheck options. I am at a loss for a solution. Thank you! David, the Captioner -- --D "Ken Y." wrote: Sorry about that blank reply. I was wondering how you got the ExcludeDictionary to work. When I try to add it to the Custom Dictionaries...it wants to add a .dic extention to the .lex extension. I googled all over and I can't seem to find any help on this. Thanks! "CaptionEditor" wrote: I created an exclusion dictionary for Word 2007. However, the dictionary does not flag words if they are in all UPPERCASE where it flags the same words if they are in mixed or lower case. Previously in Word 2003 I was able to flag words no matter what case they are in. Does anyone else have this problem? -- --David |
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Thanks.
I didn't know about editing the dictionary from within Word 2003 using the dialog box. That's great. And, no, Word 2007 seems to not allow you to do that. And so far it doesn't flag uppercase words. I guess it's a case of when you improve one thing, you make something else worse. Still, if you hear or figure out or think of an idea how I might get it to flag uppercase words, please let me know. Have a great weekend! David -- --D "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: I see that you are right, according to http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/he...473031033.aspx. I guess MS decided to make the process easier by including an exclusion dictionary to begin with instead of making you create one. I'll keep this in mind when I get around to updating that article. Interestingly, though the specified ExcludeDictionaryEN0409.lex file is in the specified folder, it doesn't seem to be loaded by default, and it doesn't show up when you Browse in the Custom Dictionaries dialog in Word 2007. And, although the dialog does show my Word 2003 exclusion dictionary as loaded, Word clearly isn't using it. It's unfortunate that MS didn't make the exclusion dictionary as easy to edit (through Word Options) as the custom dictionary is. Moreover, I just opened the ExcludeDictionaryEN0409.lex file, added "pubic," and saved the file, and it still isn't marked incorrect in Word 2007. Oh, wait, you have to "press ENTER after each word." Now it works. Okay, thanks. That's still more of a pain than Word 2003. In that version, even though you had to create the file manually, you could get it to load in the Custom Dictionaries dialog so that you could edit it through the dialog instead of having to browse to it and edit it in WordPad. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "CaptionEditor" wrote in message ... Sorry, The locations for Word 2007 is (including the username) C:\Documents and Settings\(your username)\Application Data\Microsoft\UProof\ExcludeDictionaryEN0409.lex Thanks! David -- --D "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Please see the referenced article at http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/Ex...ordFromDic.htm. The exclusion dictionary must have an .exc extension. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "CaptionEditor" wrote in message ... Hi, Ken. Thanks for replying. If you are in Word 2007, go to: C:\Documents and Settings\captionuser\Application Data\Microsoft\UProof Underneath the CUSTOM.DIC you should see ExcludeDictionaryEN0409.lex Open this file using a text editor, such as Notepad. Enter any words you want Spellcheck to flag, such as "pubic" in lower case, each word followed by a hard return. To my understanding, Spellcheck will recognize any instance of each word in the list irrespective of case. For instance, it should flag "pubic," "Pubic," and "PUBIC." It does this in my Word 2003 fine. However, I've found in my Word 2007 that it doesn't catch the uppercase instances. And, yes, I have un-checked (un-ticked) the "Ignore Uppercase" box in Word 2007's Spellcheck options. I am at a loss for a solution. Thank you! David, the Captioner -- --D "Ken Y." wrote: Sorry about that blank reply. I was wondering how you got the ExcludeDictionary to work. When I try to add it to the Custom Dictionaries...it wants to add a .dic extention to the .lex extension. I googled all over and I can't seem to find any help on this. Thanks! "CaptionEditor" wrote: I created an exclusion dictionary for Word 2007. However, the dictionary does not flag words if they are in all UPPERCASE where it flags the same words if they are in mixed or lower case. Previously in Word 2003 I was able to flag words no matter what case they are in. Does anyone else have this problem? -- --David |
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Did you enter the word in the dictionary all in lowercase? At this point I
have just the single word "pubic" in my dictionary, and Word 2007 flags "pubic," "Pubic," and "PUBIC." If it's the last you're not seeing, make sure you don't have "Ignore words in UPPERCASE" checked in Word Options | Proofing. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "CaptionEditor" wrote in message ... Thanks. I didn't know about editing the dictionary from within Word 2003 using the dialog box. That's great. And, no, Word 2007 seems to not allow you to do that. And so far it doesn't flag uppercase words. I guess it's a case of when you improve one thing, you make something else worse. Still, if you hear or figure out or think of an idea how I might get it to flag uppercase words, please let me know. Have a great weekend! David -- --D "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: I see that you are right, according to http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/he...473031033.aspx. I guess MS decided to make the process easier by including an exclusion dictionary to begin with instead of making you create one. I'll keep this in mind when I get around to updating that article. Interestingly, though the specified ExcludeDictionaryEN0409.lex file is in the specified folder, it doesn't seem to be loaded by default, and it doesn't show up when you Browse in the Custom Dictionaries dialog in Word 2007. And, although the dialog does show my Word 2003 exclusion dictionary as loaded, Word clearly isn't using it. It's unfortunate that MS didn't make the exclusion dictionary as easy to edit (through Word Options) as the custom dictionary is. Moreover, I just opened the ExcludeDictionaryEN0409.lex file, added "pubic," and saved the file, and it still isn't marked incorrect in Word 2007. Oh, wait, you have to "press ENTER after each word." Now it works. Okay, thanks. That's still more of a pain than Word 2003. In that version, even though you had to create the file manually, you could get it to load in the Custom Dictionaries dialog so that you could edit it through the dialog instead of having to browse to it and edit it in WordPad. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "CaptionEditor" wrote in message ... Sorry, The locations for Word 2007 is (including the username) C:\Documents and Settings\(your username)\Application Data\Microsoft\UProof\ExcludeDictionaryEN0409.lex Thanks! David -- --D "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Please see the referenced article at http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/Ex...ordFromDic.htm. The exclusion dictionary must have an .exc extension. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "CaptionEditor" wrote in message ... Hi, Ken. Thanks for replying. If you are in Word 2007, go to: C:\Documents and Settings\captionuser\Application Data\Microsoft\UProof Underneath the CUSTOM.DIC you should see ExcludeDictionaryEN0409.lex Open this file using a text editor, such as Notepad. Enter any words you want Spellcheck to flag, such as "pubic" in lower case, each word followed by a hard return. To my understanding, Spellcheck will recognize any instance of each word in the list irrespective of case. For instance, it should flag "pubic," "Pubic," and "PUBIC." It does this in my Word 2003 fine. However, I've found in my Word 2007 that it doesn't catch the uppercase instances. And, yes, I have un-checked (un-ticked) the "Ignore Uppercase" box in Word 2007's Spellcheck options. I am at a loss for a solution. Thank you! David, the Captioner -- --D "Ken Y." wrote: Sorry about that blank reply. I was wondering how you got the ExcludeDictionary to work. When I try to add it to the Custom Dictionaries...it wants to add a .dic extention to the .lex extension. I googled all over and I can't seem to find any help on this. Thanks! "CaptionEditor" wrote: I created an exclusion dictionary for Word 2007. However, the dictionary does not flag words if they are in all UPPERCASE where it flags the same words if they are in mixed or lower case. Previously in Word 2003 I was able to flag words no matter what case they are in. Does anyone else have this problem? -- --David |
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Exclusion Dictionary in Word 2007
Suzanne,
At least I know it works in 2007, (that it flags the uppercase instance). I already did uncheck "Ignore words in UPPERCASE" with no luck. There might be something wrong with the Word on the machine in which I tested it. I'll try again on another machine Monday. Thanks, David -- --D "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Did you enter the word in the dictionary all in lowercase? At this point I have just the single word "pubic" in my dictionary, and Word 2007 flags "pubic," "Pubic," and "PUBIC." If it's the last you're not seeing, make sure you don't have "Ignore words in UPPERCASE" checked in Word Options | Proofing. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "CaptionEditor" wrote in message ... Thanks. I didn't know about editing the dictionary from within Word 2003 using the dialog box. That's great. And, no, Word 2007 seems to not allow you to do that. And so far it doesn't flag uppercase words. I guess it's a case of when you improve one thing, you make something else worse. Still, if you hear or figure out or think of an idea how I might get it to flag uppercase words, please let me know. Have a great weekend! David -- --D "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: I see that you are right, according to http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/he...473031033.aspx. I guess MS decided to make the process easier by including an exclusion dictionary to begin with instead of making you create one. I'll keep this in mind when I get around to updating that article. Interestingly, though the specified ExcludeDictionaryEN0409.lex file is in the specified folder, it doesn't seem to be loaded by default, and it doesn't show up when you Browse in the Custom Dictionaries dialog in Word 2007. And, although the dialog does show my Word 2003 exclusion dictionary as loaded, Word clearly isn't using it. It's unfortunate that MS didn't make the exclusion dictionary as easy to edit (through Word Options) as the custom dictionary is. Moreover, I just opened the ExcludeDictionaryEN0409.lex file, added "pubic," and saved the file, and it still isn't marked incorrect in Word 2007. Oh, wait, you have to "press ENTER after each word." Now it works. Okay, thanks. That's still more of a pain than Word 2003. In that version, even though you had to create the file manually, you could get it to load in the Custom Dictionaries dialog so that you could edit it through the dialog instead of having to browse to it and edit it in WordPad. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "CaptionEditor" wrote in message ... Sorry, The locations for Word 2007 is (including the username) C:\Documents and Settings\(your username)\Application Data\Microsoft\UProof\ExcludeDictionaryEN0409.lex Thanks! David -- --D "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Please see the referenced article at http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/Ex...ordFromDic.htm. The exclusion dictionary must have an .exc extension. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "CaptionEditor" wrote in message ... Hi, Ken. Thanks for replying. If you are in Word 2007, go to: C:\Documents and Settings\captionuser\Application Data\Microsoft\UProof Underneath the CUSTOM.DIC you should see ExcludeDictionaryEN0409.lex Open this file using a text editor, such as Notepad. Enter any words you want Spellcheck to flag, such as "pubic" in lower case, each word followed by a hard return. To my understanding, Spellcheck will recognize any instance of each word in the list irrespective of case. For instance, it should flag "pubic," "Pubic," and "PUBIC." It does this in my Word 2003 fine. However, I've found in my Word 2007 that it doesn't catch the uppercase instances. And, yes, I have un-checked (un-ticked) the "Ignore Uppercase" box in Word 2007's Spellcheck options. I am at a loss for a solution. Thank you! David, the Captioner -- --D "Ken Y." wrote: Sorry about that blank reply. I was wondering how you got the ExcludeDictionary to work. When I try to add it to the Custom Dictionaries...it wants to add a .dic extention to the .lex extension. I googled all over and I can't seem to find any help on this. Thanks! "CaptionEditor" wrote: I created an exclusion dictionary for Word 2007. However, the dictionary does not flag words if they are in all UPPERCASE where it flags the same words if they are in mixed or lower case. Previously in Word 2003 I was able to flag words no matter what case they are in. Does anyone else have this problem? -- --David |
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I thought I remembered that you'd already said you had that option
unchecked. Aside from that I can't think of any explanation. This is the point at which one must just quote Office MVP Bob Buckland: "Word rarely misses an opportunity to perplex." -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "CaptionEditor" wrote in message ... Suzanne, At least I know it works in 2007, (that it flags the uppercase instance). I already did uncheck "Ignore words in UPPERCASE" with no luck. There might be something wrong with the Word on the machine in which I tested it. I'll try again on another machine Monday. Thanks, David -- --D "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Did you enter the word in the dictionary all in lowercase? At this point I have just the single word "pubic" in my dictionary, and Word 2007 flags "pubic," "Pubic," and "PUBIC." If it's the last you're not seeing, make sure you don't have "Ignore words in UPPERCASE" checked in Word Options | Proofing. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "CaptionEditor" wrote in message ... Thanks. I didn't know about editing the dictionary from within Word 2003 using the dialog box. That's great. And, no, Word 2007 seems to not allow you to do that. And so far it doesn't flag uppercase words. I guess it's a case of when you improve one thing, you make something else worse. Still, if you hear or figure out or think of an idea how I might get it to flag uppercase words, please let me know. Have a great weekend! David -- --D "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: I see that you are right, according to http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/he...473031033.aspx. I guess MS decided to make the process easier by including an exclusion dictionary to begin with instead of making you create one. I'll keep this in mind when I get around to updating that article. Interestingly, though the specified ExcludeDictionaryEN0409.lex file is in the specified folder, it doesn't seem to be loaded by default, and it doesn't show up when you Browse in the Custom Dictionaries dialog in Word 2007. And, although the dialog does show my Word 2003 exclusion dictionary as loaded, Word clearly isn't using it. It's unfortunate that MS didn't make the exclusion dictionary as easy to edit (through Word Options) as the custom dictionary is. Moreover, I just opened the ExcludeDictionaryEN0409.lex file, added "pubic," and saved the file, and it still isn't marked incorrect in Word 2007. Oh, wait, you have to "press ENTER after each word." Now it works. Okay, thanks. That's still more of a pain than Word 2003. In that version, even though you had to create the file manually, you could get it to load in the Custom Dictionaries dialog so that you could edit it through the dialog instead of having to browse to it and edit it in WordPad. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "CaptionEditor" wrote in message ... Sorry, The locations for Word 2007 is (including the username) C:\Documents and Settings\(your username)\Application Data\Microsoft\UProof\ExcludeDictionaryEN0409.lex Thanks! David -- --D "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Please see the referenced article at http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/Ex...ordFromDic.htm. The exclusion dictionary must have an .exc extension. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "CaptionEditor" wrote in message ... Hi, Ken. Thanks for replying. If you are in Word 2007, go to: C:\Documents and Settings\captionuser\Application Data\Microsoft\UProof Underneath the CUSTOM.DIC you should see ExcludeDictionaryEN0409.lex Open this file using a text editor, such as Notepad. Enter any words you want Spellcheck to flag, such as "pubic" in lower case, each word followed by a hard return. To my understanding, Spellcheck will recognize any instance of each word in the list irrespective of case. For instance, it should flag "pubic," "Pubic," and "PUBIC." It does this in my Word 2003 fine. However, I've found in my Word 2007 that it doesn't catch the uppercase instances. And, yes, I have un-checked (un-ticked) the "Ignore Uppercase" box in Word 2007's Spellcheck options. I am at a loss for a solution. Thank you! David, the Captioner -- --D "Ken Y." wrote: Sorry about that blank reply. I was wondering how you got the ExcludeDictionary to work. When I try to add it to the Custom Dictionaries...it wants to add a .dic extention to the .lex extension. I googled all over and I can't seem to find any help on this. Thanks! "CaptionEditor" wrote: I created an exclusion dictionary for Word 2007. However, the dictionary does not flag words if they are in all UPPERCASE where it flags the same words if they are in mixed or lower case. Previously in Word 2003 I was able to flag words no matter what case they are in. Does anyone else have this problem? -- --David |
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Hi, Suzanne.
Just to clarify, you were able to get Spellcheck to flag the all-uppercase instance of "PUBIC" when you entered it in all lowercase letters in the file ExcludeDictionaryEN0409 in Word 2007? Were you able to enter the word by going through the dialogue box in "Proofing" while inside Word, or did you go through Windows File Manager? Did you save the ExcludeDictionaryEN0409 by "Save-as" or just "Save"? Is your Word 2007 part of Office 2007? Had you downloaded any service packs? Sorry to keep bugging you about this, but it could save us a lot of labor hours if we could get this function to work, so I wanted to see if I can replicate exactly what you did. I would feel extremely grateful. Thank you so much! David Adae -- --D "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Did you enter the word in the dictionary all in lowercase? At this point I have just the single word "pubic" in my dictionary, and Word 2007 flags "pubic," "Pubic," and "PUBIC." If it's the last you're not seeing, make sure you don't have "Ignore words in UPPERCASE" checked in Word Options | Proofing. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "CaptionEditor" wrote in message ... Thanks. I didn't know about editing the dictionary from within Word 2003 using the dialog box. That's great. And, no, Word 2007 seems to not allow you to do that. And so far it doesn't flag uppercase words. I guess it's a case of when you improve one thing, you make something else worse. Still, if you hear or figure out or think of an idea how I might get it to flag uppercase words, please let me know. Have a great weekend! David -- --D "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: I see that you are right, according to http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/he...473031033.aspx. I guess MS decided to make the process easier by including an exclusion dictionary to begin with instead of making you create one. I'll keep this in mind when I get around to updating that article. Interestingly, though the specified ExcludeDictionaryEN0409.lex file is in the specified folder, it doesn't seem to be loaded by default, and it doesn't show up when you Browse in the Custom Dictionaries dialog in Word 2007. And, although the dialog does show my Word 2003 exclusion dictionary as loaded, Word clearly isn't using it. It's unfortunate that MS didn't make the exclusion dictionary as easy to edit (through Word Options) as the custom dictionary is. Moreover, I just opened the ExcludeDictionaryEN0409.lex file, added "pubic," and saved the file, and it still isn't marked incorrect in Word 2007. Oh, wait, you have to "press ENTER after each word." Now it works. Okay, thanks. That's still more of a pain than Word 2003. In that version, even though you had to create the file manually, you could get it to load in the Custom Dictionaries dialog so that you could edit it through the dialog instead of having to browse to it and edit it in WordPad. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "CaptionEditor" wrote in message ... Sorry, The locations for Word 2007 is (including the username) C:\Documents and Settings\(your username)\Application Data\Microsoft\UProof\ExcludeDictionaryEN0409.lex Thanks! David -- --D "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Please see the referenced article at http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/Ex...ordFromDic.htm. The exclusion dictionary must have an .exc extension. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "CaptionEditor" wrote in message ... Hi, Ken. Thanks for replying. If you are in Word 2007, go to: C:\Documents and Settings\captionuser\Application Data\Microsoft\UProof Underneath the CUSTOM.DIC you should see ExcludeDictionaryEN0409.lex Open this file using a text editor, such as Notepad. Enter any words you want Spellcheck to flag, such as "pubic" in lower case, each word followed by a hard return. To my understanding, Spellcheck will recognize any instance of each word in the list irrespective of case. For instance, it should flag "pubic," "Pubic," and "PUBIC." It does this in my Word 2003 fine. However, I've found in my Word 2007 that it doesn't catch the uppercase instances. And, yes, I have un-checked (un-ticked) the "Ignore Uppercase" box in Word 2007's Spellcheck options. I am at a loss for a solution. Thank you! David, the Captioner -- --D "Ken Y." wrote: Sorry about that blank reply. I was wondering how you got the ExcludeDictionary to work. When I try to add it to the Custom Dictionaries...it wants to add a .dic extention to the .lex extension. I googled all over and I can't seem to find any help on this. Thanks! "CaptionEditor" wrote: I created an exclusion dictionary for Word 2007. However, the dictionary does not flag words if they are in all UPPERCASE where it flags the same words if they are in mixed or lower case. Previously in Word 2003 I was able to flag words no matter what case they are in. Does anyone else have this problem? -- --David |
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Okay. Word 2007 is part of Office 2007 Ultimate (not all apps installed),
installed side-by-side with Office 2003. I entered "pubic" (all lowercase in the ExcludeDictionaryEN0409 file after opening it in WordPad through Windows Explorer (My Computer) and then just saved the file normally (Ctrl+S or clicking on a Save button--don't remember which). According to Office Button | Word Options | Resources, Word is 12.0.6311.5000 with SP1 MSO (12.0.6320.500). I've just noticed an odd thing. If I type "pubic pubic PUBIC," the first word is AutoCorrected to "Pubic" and marked as misspelled, and both the following words are marked as misspelled. But if I type PUBIC at the beginning of a paragraph, either by holding down the Shift key or by turning on Caps Lock, the first PUBIC is not marked as misspelled, but a subsequent one is. Adding "Pubic" to the exclude dictionary doesn't help. Even adding "PUBIC" doesn't help. I'll report this up the line as a bug. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "CaptionEditor" wrote in message ... Hi, Suzanne. Just to clarify, you were able to get Spellcheck to flag the all-uppercase instance of "PUBIC" when you entered it in all lowercase letters in the file ExcludeDictionaryEN0409 in Word 2007? Were you able to enter the word by going through the dialogue box in "Proofing" while inside Word, or did you go through Windows File Manager? Did you save the ExcludeDictionaryEN0409 by "Save-as" or just "Save"? Is your Word 2007 part of Office 2007? Had you downloaded any service packs? Sorry to keep bugging you about this, but it could save us a lot of labor hours if we could get this function to work, so I wanted to see if I can replicate exactly what you did. I would feel extremely grateful. Thank you so much! David Adae -- --D "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Did you enter the word in the dictionary all in lowercase? At this point I have just the single word "pubic" in my dictionary, and Word 2007 flags "pubic," "Pubic," and "PUBIC." If it's the last you're not seeing, make sure you don't have "Ignore words in UPPERCASE" checked in Word Options | Proofing. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "CaptionEditor" wrote in message ... Thanks. I didn't know about editing the dictionary from within Word 2003 using the dialog box. That's great. And, no, Word 2007 seems to not allow you to do that. And so far it doesn't flag uppercase words. I guess it's a case of when you improve one thing, you make something else worse. Still, if you hear or figure out or think of an idea how I might get it to flag uppercase words, please let me know. Have a great weekend! David -- --D "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: I see that you are right, according to http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/he...473031033.aspx. I guess MS decided to make the process easier by including an exclusion dictionary to begin with instead of making you create one. I'll keep this in mind when I get around to updating that article. Interestingly, though the specified ExcludeDictionaryEN0409.lex file is in the specified folder, it doesn't seem to be loaded by default, and it doesn't show up when you Browse in the Custom Dictionaries dialog in Word 2007. And, although the dialog does show my Word 2003 exclusion dictionary as loaded, Word clearly isn't using it. It's unfortunate that MS didn't make the exclusion dictionary as easy to edit (through Word Options) as the custom dictionary is. Moreover, I just opened the ExcludeDictionaryEN0409.lex file, added "pubic," and saved the file, and it still isn't marked incorrect in Word 2007. Oh, wait, you have to "press ENTER after each word." Now it works. Okay, thanks. That's still more of a pain than Word 2003. In that version, even though you had to create the file manually, you could get it to load in the Custom Dictionaries dialog so that you could edit it through the dialog instead of having to browse to it and edit it in WordPad. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "CaptionEditor" wrote in message ... Sorry, The locations for Word 2007 is (including the username) C:\Documents and Settings\(your username)\Application Data\Microsoft\UProof\ExcludeDictionaryEN0409.lex Thanks! David -- --D "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Please see the referenced article at http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/Ex...ordFromDic.htm. The exclusion dictionary must have an .exc extension. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "CaptionEditor" wrote in message ... Hi, Ken. Thanks for replying. If you are in Word 2007, go to: C:\Documents and Settings\captionuser\Application Data\Microsoft\UProof Underneath the CUSTOM.DIC you should see ExcludeDictionaryEN0409.lex Open this file using a text editor, such as Notepad. Enter any words you want Spellcheck to flag, such as "pubic" in lower case, each word followed by a hard return. To my understanding, Spellcheck will recognize any instance of each word in the list irrespective of case. For instance, it should flag "pubic," "Pubic," and "PUBIC." It does this in my Word 2003 fine. However, I've found in my Word 2007 that it doesn't catch the uppercase instances. And, yes, I have un-checked (un-ticked) the "Ignore Uppercase" box in Word 2007's Spellcheck options. I am at a loss for a solution. Thank you! David, the Captioner -- --D "Ken Y." wrote: Sorry about that blank reply. I was wondering how you got the ExcludeDictionary to work. When I try to add it to the Custom Dictionaries...it wants to add a .dic extention to the .lex extension. I googled all over and I can't seem to find any help on this. Thanks! "CaptionEditor" wrote: I created an exclusion dictionary for Word 2007. However, the dictionary does not flag words if they are in all UPPERCASE where it flags the same words if they are in mixed or lower case. Previously in Word 2003 I was able to flag words no matter what case they are in. Does anyone else have this problem? -- --David |
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Exclusion Dictionary in Word 2007
Suzanne,
Thank you very much for all your help! It looks like Word 2007 does indeed have a bug. I think it was flagging repeated instances of the word in your test, but when you start a line with the uppercase word, or if it comes after a different word, it won't flag it. Fortunately for the office here, it turns out that most of us will continue to use Word 2003, so we're set for a while. Maybe a solution will arrive in a future service pack. Take care and thanks again for taking the time to investigate this issue and for replying so quickly! David Adae --D "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Okay. Word 2007 is part of Office 2007 Ultimate (not all apps installed), installed side-by-side with Office 2003. I entered "pubic" (all lowercase in the ExcludeDictionaryEN0409 file after opening it in WordPad through Windows Explorer (My Computer) and then just saved the file normally (Ctrl+S or clicking on a Save button--don't remember which). According to Office Button | Word Options | Resources, Word is 12.0.6311.5000 with SP1 MSO (12.0.6320.500). I've just noticed an odd thing. If I type "pubic pubic PUBIC," the first word is AutoCorrected to "Pubic" and marked as misspelled, and both the following words are marked as misspelled. But if I type PUBIC at the beginning of a paragraph, either by holding down the Shift key or by turning on Caps Lock, the first PUBIC is not marked as misspelled, but a subsequent one is. Adding "Pubic" to the exclude dictionary doesn't help. Even adding "PUBIC" doesn't help. I'll report this up the line as a bug. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "CaptionEditor" wrote in message ... Hi, Suzanne. Just to clarify, you were able to get Spellcheck to flag the all-uppercase instance of "PUBIC" when you entered it in all lowercase letters in the file ExcludeDictionaryEN0409 in Word 2007? Were you able to enter the word by going through the dialogue box in "Proofing" while inside Word, or did you go through Windows File Manager? Did you save the ExcludeDictionaryEN0409 by "Save-as" or just "Save"? Is your Word 2007 part of Office 2007? Had you downloaded any service packs? Sorry to keep bugging you about this, but it could save us a lot of labor hours if we could get this function to work, so I wanted to see if I can replicate exactly what you did. I would feel extremely grateful. Thank you so much! David Adae -- --D "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Did you enter the word in the dictionary all in lowercase? At this point I have just the single word "pubic" in my dictionary, and Word 2007 flags "pubic," "Pubic," and "PUBIC." If it's the last you're not seeing, make sure you don't have "Ignore words in UPPERCASE" checked in Word Options | Proofing. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "CaptionEditor" wrote in message ... Thanks. I didn't know about editing the dictionary from within Word 2003 using the dialog box. That's great. And, no, Word 2007 seems to not allow you to do that. And so far it doesn't flag uppercase words. I guess it's a case of when you improve one thing, you make something else worse. Still, if you hear or figure out or think of an idea how I might get it to flag uppercase words, please let me know. Have a great weekend! David -- --D "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: I see that you are right, according to http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/he...473031033.aspx. I guess MS decided to make the process easier by including an exclusion dictionary to begin with instead of making you create one. I'll keep this in mind when I get around to updating that article. Interestingly, though the specified ExcludeDictionaryEN0409.lex file is in the specified folder, it doesn't seem to be loaded by default, and it doesn't show up when you Browse in the Custom Dictionaries dialog in Word 2007. And, although the dialog does show my Word 2003 exclusion dictionary as loaded, Word clearly isn't using it. It's unfortunate that MS didn't make the exclusion dictionary as easy to edit (through Word Options) as the custom dictionary is. Moreover, I just opened the ExcludeDictionaryEN0409.lex file, added "pubic," and saved the file, and it still isn't marked incorrect in Word 2007. Oh, wait, you have to "press ENTER after each word." Now it works. Okay, thanks. That's still more of a pain than Word 2003. In that version, even though you had to create the file manually, you could get it to load in the Custom Dictionaries dialog so that you could edit it through the dialog instead of having to browse to it and edit it in WordPad. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "CaptionEditor" wrote in message ... Sorry, The locations for Word 2007 is (including the username) C:\Documents and Settings\(your username)\Application Data\Microsoft\UProof\ExcludeDictionaryEN0409.lex Thanks! David -- --D "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Please see the referenced article at http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/Ex...ordFromDic.htm. The exclusion dictionary must have an .exc extension. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "CaptionEditor" wrote in message ... Hi, Ken. Thanks for replying. If you are in Word 2007, go to: C:\Documents and Settings\captionuser\Application Data\Microsoft\UProof Underneath the CUSTOM.DIC you should see ExcludeDictionaryEN0409.lex Open this file using a text editor, such as Notepad. Enter any words you want Spellcheck to flag, such as "pubic" in lower case, each word followed by a hard return. To my understanding, Spellcheck will recognize any instance of each word in the list irrespective of case. For instance, it should flag "pubic," "Pubic," and "PUBIC." It does this in my Word 2003 fine. However, I've found in my Word 2007 that it doesn't catch the uppercase instances. And, yes, I have un-checked (un-ticked) the "Ignore Uppercase" box in Word 2007's Spellcheck options. I am at a loss for a solution. Thank you! David, the Captioner -- --D "Ken Y." wrote: Sorry about that blank reply. I was wondering how you got the ExcludeDictionary to work. When I try to add it to the Custom Dictionaries...it wants to add a .dic extention to the .lex extension. I googled all over and I can't seem to find any help on this. Thanks! "CaptionEditor" wrote: I created an exclusion dictionary for Word 2007. However, the dictionary does not flag words if they are in all UPPERCASE where it flags the same words if they are in mixed or lower case. Previously in Word 2003 I was able to flag words no matter what case they are in. Does anyone else have this problem? -- --David |
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Exclusion Dictionary in Word 2007
Oh, ouch, you're right about the repeated word. That does make sense. So it
just doesn't do the UPPERCASE at all. I'll add that to my escalation request. Thanks. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "CaptionEditor" wrote in message ... Suzanne, Thank you very much for all your help! It looks like Word 2007 does indeed have a bug. I think it was flagging repeated instances of the word in your test, but when you start a line with the uppercase word, or if it comes after a different word, it won't flag it. Fortunately for the office here, it turns out that most of us will continue to use Word 2003, so we're set for a while. Maybe a solution will arrive in a future service pack. Take care and thanks again for taking the time to investigate this issue and for replying so quickly! David Adae --D "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Okay. Word 2007 is part of Office 2007 Ultimate (not all apps installed), installed side-by-side with Office 2003. I entered "pubic" (all lowercase in the ExcludeDictionaryEN0409 file after opening it in WordPad through Windows Explorer (My Computer) and then just saved the file normally (Ctrl+S or clicking on a Save button--don't remember which). According to Office Button | Word Options | Resources, Word is 12.0.6311.5000 with SP1 MSO (12.0.6320.500). I've just noticed an odd thing. If I type "pubic pubic PUBIC," the first word is AutoCorrected to "Pubic" and marked as misspelled, and both the following words are marked as misspelled. But if I type PUBIC at the beginning of a paragraph, either by holding down the Shift key or by turning on Caps Lock, the first PUBIC is not marked as misspelled, but a subsequent one is. Adding "Pubic" to the exclude dictionary doesn't help. Even adding "PUBIC" doesn't help. I'll report this up the line as a bug. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "CaptionEditor" wrote in message ... Hi, Suzanne. Just to clarify, you were able to get Spellcheck to flag the all-uppercase instance of "PUBIC" when you entered it in all lowercase letters in the file ExcludeDictionaryEN0409 in Word 2007? Were you able to enter the word by going through the dialogue box in "Proofing" while inside Word, or did you go through Windows File Manager? Did you save the ExcludeDictionaryEN0409 by "Save-as" or just "Save"? Is your Word 2007 part of Office 2007? Had you downloaded any service packs? Sorry to keep bugging you about this, but it could save us a lot of labor hours if we could get this function to work, so I wanted to see if I can replicate exactly what you did. I would feel extremely grateful. Thank you so much! David Adae -- --D "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Did you enter the word in the dictionary all in lowercase? At this point I have just the single word "pubic" in my dictionary, and Word 2007 flags "pubic," "Pubic," and "PUBIC." If it's the last you're not seeing, make sure you don't have "Ignore words in UPPERCASE" checked in Word Options | Proofing. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "CaptionEditor" wrote in message ... Thanks. I didn't know about editing the dictionary from within Word 2003 using the dialog box. That's great. And, no, Word 2007 seems to not allow you to do that. And so far it doesn't flag uppercase words. I guess it's a case of when you improve one thing, you make something else worse. Still, if you hear or figure out or think of an idea how I might get it to flag uppercase words, please let me know. Have a great weekend! David -- --D "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: I see that you are right, according to http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/he...473031033.aspx. I guess MS decided to make the process easier by including an exclusion dictionary to begin with instead of making you create one. I'll keep this in mind when I get around to updating that article. Interestingly, though the specified ExcludeDictionaryEN0409.lex file is in the specified folder, it doesn't seem to be loaded by default, and it doesn't show up when you Browse in the Custom Dictionaries dialog in Word 2007. And, although the dialog does show my Word 2003 exclusion dictionary as loaded, Word clearly isn't using it. It's unfortunate that MS didn't make the exclusion dictionary as easy to edit (through Word Options) as the custom dictionary is. Moreover, I just opened the ExcludeDictionaryEN0409.lex file, added "pubic," and saved the file, and it still isn't marked incorrect in Word 2007. Oh, wait, you have to "press ENTER after each word." Now it works. Okay, thanks. That's still more of a pain than Word 2003. In that version, even though you had to create the file manually, you could get it to load in the Custom Dictionaries dialog so that you could edit it through the dialog instead of having to browse to it and edit it in WordPad. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "CaptionEditor" wrote in message ... Sorry, The locations for Word 2007 is (including the username) C:\Documents and Settings\(your username)\Application Data\Microsoft\UProof\ExcludeDictionaryEN0409.lex Thanks! David -- --D "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Please see the referenced article at http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/Ex...ordFromDic.htm. The exclusion dictionary must have an .exc extension. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "CaptionEditor" wrote in message ... Hi, Ken. Thanks for replying. If you are in Word 2007, go to: C:\Documents and Settings\captionuser\Application Data\Microsoft\UProof Underneath the CUSTOM.DIC you should see ExcludeDictionaryEN0409.lex Open this file using a text editor, such as Notepad. Enter any words you want Spellcheck to flag, such as "pubic" in lower case, each word followed by a hard return. To my understanding, Spellcheck will recognize any instance of each word in the list irrespective of case. For instance, it should flag "pubic," "Pubic," and "PUBIC." It does this in my Word 2003 fine. However, I've found in my Word 2007 that it doesn't catch the uppercase instances. And, yes, I have un-checked (un-ticked) the "Ignore Uppercase" box in Word 2007's Spellcheck options. I am at a loss for a solution. Thank you! David, the Captioner -- --D "Ken Y." wrote: Sorry about that blank reply. I was wondering how you got the ExcludeDictionary to work. When I try to add it to the Custom Dictionaries...it wants to add a .dic extention to the .lex extension. I googled all over and I can't seem to find any help on this. Thanks! "CaptionEditor" wrote: I created an exclusion dictionary for Word 2007. However, the dictionary does not flag words if they are in all UPPERCASE where it flags the same words if they are in mixed or lower case. Previously in Word 2003 I was able to flag words no matter what case they are in. Does anyone else have this problem? -- --David |
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