2007 Microsoft® Office System Plain & Simple

Customizing Your Spelling Dictionaries

The Office programs use one or more dictionaries to check your spelling. When there’s a word in your file that’s correct but that isn’t recognized—an unfamiliar technical or scientific term, for example—you can tell your program to add that word to your custom dictionary. If you already have a custom dictionary that includes those words or terms, you can add that dictionary to the list of dictionaries you’re using. Also, if you discover any incorrectly spelled words in your dictionary, replace them with the correct spelling; otherwise, your program will consider the incorrect spelling to be correct.

Add a Dictionary

1. Click the Office button, click the program’s Options button on the menu, and, in the program’s ...