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by porsha 1 view

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Can anyone tell me the names of the files for the thesaurus and the spell checker in Word please?

Thanks

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by beermonster

If you wanted to go in and have a look, then this isn't the answer you wanted to hear I'm afraid. The files in question are in binary !
they have a .lex extension (IE lexicon)and have a format of msspen.lex (where en specifies english). They are usually found in

C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\PROOF
If you don't find them there then check the following registry key which will show you the path.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Proofing
Tools\Spelling\1033\Normal

Words that you add yourself will be put in the custom.dic file (which is user specific)that you can edit directly. This can be found (on NT) in the users profile -
%userprofile%\Application Data\Microsoft\Proof\CUSTOM.DIC"

hope this helps...

by porsha

Thanks for that

I didn't want to go in and have a look, one of our users had managed to 'lose' their dictionary and thesaurus (I wish they wouldn't decide to go tidying things up) so i wanted to know which ones needed to be copied back into the folder.

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