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Guess the lines between student and teacher are pretty blurry in the
newsgroups -- usually I find myself the teacher, but today I'm the
student with his hand up in the air asking questions....
So: how do I back up and restore the user dictionary in Office 2007?
By the term "user dictionary," I mean the dictionary that contains the
words where I right-click on a word flagged by Office -- any component
of Office, be it OneNote or Word or whatever -- and opt to add the
word to the dictionary.
Thanks in advance.
//Steve//
Steve Silverwood, KB6OJS
Email: kb6ojs[ at ]arrl.net
Web: http://kb6ojs.com
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Steve Silverwood wrote:
[Quoted Text] > So: how do I back up and restore the user dictionary in Office 2007?
>
> By the term "user dictionary," I mean the dictionary that contains
> the words where I right-click on a word flagged by Office -- any
> component of Office, be it OneNote or Word or whatever -- and opt
> to add the word to the dictionary.
Pretty easy:
Open Word or Outlook, then use the "Office Button";
then at the bottom of the window select "Word Options";
in the list on the left select the third item "Document Checking";
click on the button "User Dictionaries".
In the Dialog you are shown which user dictionaries are in use and below
that the path (under Vista it's %APPDATA%\Microsoft\UProof, could be
different in XP).
Then go there and save the *.DIC files to a save place/medium.
HTH
Rainald
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On Sat, 29 Nov 2008 18:39:22 +0100, "Rainald Taesler" <taesler[ at ]gmx.de>
wrote:
[Quoted Text] >Steve Silverwood wrote:
>
>> So: how do I back up and restore the user dictionary in Office 2007?
>>
>> By the term "user dictionary," I mean the dictionary that contains
>> the words where I right-click on a word flagged by Office -- any
>> component of Office, be it OneNote or Word or whatever -- and opt
>> to add the word to the dictionary.
>
>Pretty easy:
>Open Word or Outlook, then use the "Office Button";
>then at the bottom of the window select "Word Options";
>in the list on the left select the third item "Document Checking";
>click on the button "User Dictionaries".
>
>In the Dialog you are shown which user dictionaries are in use and below
>that the path (under Vista it's %APPDATA%\Microsoft\UProof, could be
>different in XP).
>Then go there and save the *.DIC files to a save place/medium.
>
>HTH
>Rainald
Helps a lot, thanks. However, there are some other files in there:
Volume in drive C is KB6OJS Serial number is 1a39:f279
Directory of C:\Users\steve\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\UProof\*
27-11-2008 09:17 <DIR> .
27-11-2008 09:17 <DIR> ..
29-11-2008 08:30 5,574 CUSTOM.DIC
25-03-2008 17:44 2 ExcludeDictionaryEN0c09.lex
06-12-2007 04:29 2 ExcludeDictionaryEN0409.lex
14-04-2008 16:25 2 ExcludeDictionaryEN0809.lex
06-02-2008 14:15 2 ExcludeDictionaryEN1009.lex
06-02-2008 14:15 2 ExcludeDictionaryFR0c0c.lex
5,584 bytes in 6 files and 2 dirs 28,672 bytes allocated
31,787,495,424 bytes free
What are the .LEX files?
Hmmm... "LEX Files" -- sounds like a good name for a geeky sci-fi
conspiracy mystery movie...! :D
//Steve//
Steve Silverwood, KB6OJS
Email: kb6ojs[ at ]arrl.net
Web: http://kb6ojs.com
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
PS: I have a =very= cool little tool called Take Command (TCMD for
short) from JP Software (www.jpsoft.com). It's a command-window
replacement with a lot of enhancements (extended command parameters,
whole new commands, an extended batch-file scripting language, a
user-customizable toolbar at the top of the window, and so forth).
One such enhancement is the use of additional devices. Remember doing
DOS stuff like "DIR > LPT1:" to get a printout of a directory? I did
"DIR > CLIP:" to send the above directory list directly to the
clipboard!
I have TCMD version 8.02, which is pretty much just a DOS-like window
-- the new 9.0 version has a -=LOT=- more bells and whistles, which I
have only just started to explore in the eval version I just
downloaded.
They also have a stripped-down freebie version, although I haven't
tried the current version of that tool just yet so I don't know how
much of the current version of the full product is contained in this
limited version.
Just thought I'd mention a cool tool I have in my arsenal that I just
used, figuring someone else might find it equally useful for their own
needs.
[For public notice: I have no connection with JP Software other than
that of being a very satisfied customer for quite a few years.]
//S//
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Steve Silverwood wrote:
[Quoted Text] >>> So: how do I back up and restore the user dictionary in Office
>>> 2007?
>>>
>>> By the term "user dictionary," I mean the dictionary that contains
>>> the words where I right-click on a word flagged by Office -- any
>>> component of Office, be it OneNote or Word or whatever -- and opt
>>> to add the word to the dictionary.
>>
>> Pretty easy:
>> Open Word or Outlook, then use the "Office Button";
>> then at the bottom of the window select "Word Options";
>> in the list on the left select the third item "Document Checking";
>> click on the button "User Dictionaries".
>>
>> In the Dialog you are shown which user dictionaries are in use and
>> below that the path (under Vista it's %APPDATA%\Microsoft\UProof,
>> could be different in XP).
>> Then go there and save the *.DIC files to a save place/medium.
>
> Helps a lot, thanks. However, there are some other files in there:
>
> Volume in drive C is KB6OJS Serial number is 1a39:f279
> Directory of C:\Users\steve\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\UProof\*
>
> 27-11-2008 09:17 <DIR> .
> 27-11-2008 09:17 <DIR> ..
> 29-11-2008 08:30 5,574 CUSTOM.DIC
> 25-03-2008 17:44 2 ExcludeDictionaryEN0c09.lex
> 06-12-2007 04:29 2 ExcludeDictionaryEN0409.lex
> 14-04-2008 16:25 2 ExcludeDictionaryEN0809.lex
> 06-02-2008 14:15 2 ExcludeDictionaryEN1009.lex
> 06-02-2008 14:15 2 ExcludeDictionaryFR0c0c.lex
> 5,584 bytes in 6 files and 2 dirs 28,672 bytes allocated
> 31,787,495,424 bytes free
>
> What are the .LEX files?
It's "LEX" as the abbreviation for "Lexicon" (= dictionary).
As you see they all have a size of 2b and do they not contain any info
(except FF FE hex)
AFAICS they are system files for MS PROOFing system (for Office12 they
were/are) in the "UPROOF" subdirectory.
I can not say what they might be good for.
The only "LEX file which contains info is the file "UserDictionary.lex"
in the WindowsMail subdirectory. It's the user-dictionary for
spellchecking of WinMail (which unfortunately - different from it's
predecessor OE - does not use the Office spellchecking system
{siiiiigh}.
> Hmmm... "LEX Files" -- sounds like a good name for a geeky sci-fi
> conspiracy mystery movie...! :D
LOL
> PS: I have a =very= cool little tool called Take Command (TCMD for
> short) from JP Software (www.jpsoft.com).
Thanks for the hint.
I'm always thankful for hints on software other experienced folks have
in their toolbox.
> [For public notice: I have no connection with JP Software other than
> that of being a very satisfied customer for quite a few years.]
;-) ;-)
Thought you were earning a lot of money by advertising in NGs <bg,d&r>
Rainald
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On Mon, 8 Dec 2008 18:18:40 +0100, "Rainald Taesler" <taesler[ at ]gmx.de>
wrote:
[Quoted Text] >> PS: I have a =very= cool little tool called Take Command (TCMD for
>> short) from JP Software (www.jpsoft.com).
>
>Thanks for the hint.
>I'm always thankful for hints on software other experienced folks have
>in their toolbox.
No problem. I'm not entirely thrilled with the huge redesign of their
9.0 version -- the 8.0 version did the job nicely without all the
fancy menus and such. It was essentially a souped-up command window.
>> [For public notice: I have no connection with JP Software other than
>> that of being a very satisfied customer for quite a few years.]
>
>;-) ;-)
>Thought you were earning a lot of money by advertising in NGs <bg,d&r>
Don't I wish -- I'd like to be "earning a lot of money" doing just
about ANYTHING these days (caveat: legal, honest work, preferably in
the IT industry).
//Steve//
Steve Silverwood, KB6OJS
Email: kb6ojs[ at ]arrl.net
Web: http://kb6ojs.com
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Steve Silverwood wrote:
[JP software]
[Quoted Text] > No problem. I'm not entirely thrilled with the huge redesign of
> their 9.0 version -- the 8.0 version did the job nicely without
> all the fancy menus and such. It was essentially a souped-up
> command window.
Unfortunately too many applications have been spoilt by
"over-featuritis", some even killed (like AmiPro by Lotus WordPro, f.e.)
>>> [For public notice: I have no connection with JP Software other
>>> than that of being a very satisfied customer for quite a few
>>> years.]
>>
>> ;-) ;-)
>> Thought you were earning a lot of money by advertising in NGs
>> <bg,d&r>
>
> Don't I wish -- I'd like to be "earning a lot of money" doing just
> about ANYTHING these days (caveat: legal, honest work, preferably in
> the IT industry).
Does not sound too good :-( :-(
Unfortunately I can not be of help in any way :-(
Strange world, this world. Over here in Germany we have the crazy
situation that even most experienced IT-professionals do hardly have any
change to find a new job on the one side and there's a serious lack of
IT-people so that they are importing staff from India OTH - let alone
all that "outsourcing to Bangalore" hype. {siiiigh}
Rainald
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