changing and finding custom dictionary in vista? Office is loaded but I will not be keeping it.

Windows Vista does not have a system dictionary, this is an issue related to
Microsoft 'Office Word', try posting the issue in the appropriate newsgroup:
microsoft.public.word.spelling.grammar
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"rich" <> wrote in message
news:%...
>I believe that I mis-typed....and then let my mouse button slip...and
>erroneously entered a number of mis-spelled word as "add to dictionary" in
>my custom dictionary.
>
> I cannot find the dictionary listing to verify what I may have mis-typed.
> Using WORD I can get to a dictionary...but..it doesn't show any
> listings.. It would allow me to find and perhaps remove an erroneously
> spelled word,...but I'd have to know what words I mistyped first??? . Any
> help appreciated. thanks Rich

Open windows Mail.
Click Tools > Options.
Click the Spelling tab.
Click the "Edit Custom dictionary" button


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Steve Easton


"rich" <> wrote in message news:%...
>I believe that I mis-typed....and then let my mouse button slip...and erroneously entered a number of
>mis-spelled word as "add to dictionary" in my custom dictionary.
>
> I cannot find the dictionary listing to verify what I may have mis-typed. Using WORD I can get to a
> dictionary...but..it doesn't show any listings.. It would allow me to find and perhaps remove an erroneously
> spelled word,...but I'd have to know what words I mistyped first??? . Any help appreciated. thanks Rich

Ok
Try browsing to:
C:\Users\%UserName%\Application Data\Microsoft\Proof

and see if it's there.


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Steve Easton


"rich" <> wrote in message news:...
> Thanks, Steve...but..in Windows Mail ( now that I have VISTA) ..."Edit custom dictionary" doesn't exist. ??
> What an improvement all of this is...ha ha ha Rich
>
> "Steve Easton" <> wrote in message news:...
>> Open windows Mail.
>> Click Tools > Options.
>> Click the Spelling tab.
>> Click the "Edit Custom dictionary" button
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> Steve Easton
>>
>>
>> "rich" <> wrote in message news:%...
>>>I believe that I mis-typed....and then let my mouse button slip...and erroneously entered a number of
>>>mis-spelled word as "add to dictionary" in my custom dictionary.
>>>
>>> I cannot find the dictionary listing to verify what I may have mis-typed. Using WORD I can get to a
>>> dictionary...but..it doesn't show any listings.. It would allow me to find and perhaps remove an
>>> erroneously spelled word,...but I'd have to know what words I mistyped first??? . Any help appreciated.
>>> thanks Rich
>>
>>
>

Actually it should be here in vista:
C:\Users\&UserName&\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Proo f

I just booted into Vista to double check.

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"rich" <> wrote in message news:...
> Thanks, Steve...but..in Windows Mail ( now that I have VISTA) ..."Edit
> custom dictionary" doesn't exist. ?? What an improvement all of this
> is...ha ha ha Rich
>
> "Steve Easton" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>> Open windows Mail.
>> Click Tools > Options.
>> Click the Spelling tab.
>> Click the "Edit Custom dictionary" button
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> Steve Easton
>>
>>
>> "rich" <> wrote in message
>> news:%...
>>>I believe that I mis-typed....and then let my mouse button slip...and
>>>erroneously entered a number of mis-spelled word as "add to dictionary" in
>>>my custom dictionary.
>>>
>>> I cannot find the dictionary listing to verify what I may have mis-typed.
>>> Using WORD I can get to a dictionary...but..it doesn't show any
>>> listings.. It would allow me to find and perhaps remove an erroneously
>>> spelled word,...but I'd have to know what words I mistyped first??? .
>>> Any help appreciated. thanks Rich
>>
>>
>

I believe that I mis-typed....and then let my mouse button slip...and
erroneously entered a number of mis-spelled word as "add to dictionary" in
my custom dictionary.

I cannot find the dictionary listing to verify what I may have mis-typed.
Using WORD I can get to a dictionary...but..it doesn't show any listings..
It would allow me to find and perhaps remove an erroneously spelled
word,...but I'd have to know what words I mistyped first??? . Any help
appreciated. thanks Rich

"Steve Easton" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Actually it should be here in vista:
> C:\Users\&UserName&\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Proo f
>
> I just booted into Vista to double check.


From my memory, it is a text file within the actual Windows Mail folder
within the Microsoft folder, and not Proof. I could be wrong, but I do not
think so, as I have my entire Windows Mail store folder on a different
RAID-1 partition. I am unable to check right now.

ss.

"rich" <> wrote in message
news:%...
>I believe that I mis-typed....and then let my mouse button slip...and
>erroneously entered a number of mis-spelled word as "add to dictionary" in
>my custom dictionary.
>
> I cannot find the dictionary listing to verify what I may have mis-typed.
> Using WORD I can get to a dictionary...but..it doesn't show any
> listings.. It would allow me to find and perhaps remove an erroneously
> spelled word,...but I'd have to know what words I mistyped first??? . Any
> help appreciated. thanks Rich

Your date or timezone is incorrect.

ss.

Windows Mail (therefore Vista) does indeed have spell check, which "must"
use a dictionary - somewhere. The spell check is off by default in Windows
Mail.

But, as you say - if the person has Office installed the computer, Office
will use it's dictionary as the dictionary of choice.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)



"Andre Da Costa[ActiveWin]" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Windows Vista does not have a system dictionary, this is an issue related
> to Microsoft 'Office Word', try posting the issue in the appropriate
> newsgroup:
> microsoft.public.word.spelling.grammar
> --
> Andre
> Blog: http://adacosta.spaces.live.com
> My Vista Quickstart Guide:
> http://adacosta.spaces.live.com/blog...3DB!9709.entry
> "rich" <> wrote in message
> news:%...
>>I believe that I mis-typed....and then let my mouse button slip...and
>>erroneously entered a number of mis-spelled word as "add to dictionary" in
>>my custom dictionary.
>>
>> I cannot find the dictionary listing to verify what I may have mis-typed.
>> Using WORD I can get to a dictionary...but..it doesn't show any
>> listings.. It would allow me to find and perhaps remove an erroneously
>> spelled word,...but I'd have to know what words I mistyped first??? .
>> Any help appreciated. thanks Rich
>
>

Don't see it there and I enabled show hidden files.

Check out this post by Brink over at Vista x64 Forums - Windows Mail Spell
Checker Dictionary:
http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/82...ictionary.html
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http://adacosta.spaces.live.com/blog...3DB!9709.entry
"Synapse Syndrome" <> wrote in message
news:%...
> "Steve Easton" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>> Actually it should be here in vista:
>> C:\Users\&UserName&\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Proo f
>>
>> I just booted into Vista to double check.
>
>
> From my memory, it is a text file within the actual Windows Mail folder
> within the Microsoft folder, and not Proof. I could be wrong, but I do
> not think so, as I have my entire Windows Mail store folder on a different
> RAID-1 partition. I am unable to check right now.
>
> ss.
>

Thanks, Steve...but..in Windows Mail ( now that I have VISTA) ..."Edit
custom dictionary" doesn't exist. ?? What an improvement all of this
is...ha ha ha Rich

"Steve Easton" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Open windows Mail.
> Click Tools > Options.
> Click the Spelling tab.
> Click the "Edit Custom dictionary" button
>
>
> --
>
> Steve Easton
>
>
> "rich" <> wrote in message
> news:%...
>>I believe that I mis-typed....and then let my mouse button slip...and
>>erroneously entered a number of mis-spelled word as "add to dictionary" in
>>my custom dictionary.
>>
>> I cannot find the dictionary listing to verify what I may have mis-typed.
>> Using WORD I can get to a dictionary...but..it doesn't show any
>> listings.. It would allow me to find and perhaps remove an erroneously
>> spelled word,...but I'd have to know what words I mistyped first??? .
>> Any help appreciated. thanks Rich
>
>