Well, I thought I did right with custom.dic, but I will go over it
again, and will follow your advice. Many thanks for the post!!
Regards,
P D Sterling
Cindy M -WordMVP- wrote:
[Quoted Text] > Hi P, > >> Somehow, my Word dictionary thinks "Oaklahoma`" is a word. I have >> checked the custom.dic file, and learned from help how to make an .exc >> file, but I am very interested in a global search to remove "`" or any >> other thing that upsets my applecart. Any advice would be gratefully >> appreciated. >> > You can't edit Word's main dictionary. No ifs, ands or buts. > > The accent character isn't considered part of a word; it's treated more > like punctuation. So spell check isn't ever going to catch this. > > However, it should mark Oaklahoma as incorrect, as the state should be > spelled: Oklahoma. If it's really not catching Oaklahoma, then you should > check whether you haven't additional *.dic files on your system. > > Cindy Meister > INTER-Solutions, Switzerland > http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005) > http://www.word.mvps.org> > This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or > reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) > |