Shared custom dictionary

[mrbusy]

The company I work for generates a large number of scientific reports and other documents. We opperate from a standard template which contains toolbars and autotext to help people with symbols and complex formulas but I would also like to provide a custom dictionary. Ideally when one scientist adds an unusal word to their dictionary I would like Word to stop bugging everyone rather than relying on every individual to add it themselves.

Any advice appreciated.

Thanks.

 

[fumei]

I assume you are on a network.

You may, or may not, want to do this

1. get their custom.dic files.
2. use Notepad to combine them

3. RENAME this OurDic.Dic (or whatever you want)
4. move this to a network folder
5. Each PC will have to do this...but...
Tools > Spelling and grammar > Click the Custom dictionaries button
6. Click New.
7. Go to folder with the custom dic (OurDic.Dic) you want to use.
8. make it the default. This is important.

If it IS the default, then added entries will write to it. As it is a network shared file, everyone will read the same file. Everyone will write to the same file.

N.B. network access permissions, and FileOpen permissions of course apply.

N.B. custom dictionary files are normally hidden files.

Gerry