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[Stone]

I accidently added the word armoury, which isnt the word I was looking for and in the essay im writing now armory will be used a LOT

[BlackHawk]

After a few minutes of messing around I found a way how to edit your dictionary. However, it's been tested only on Win98 and Office2k. On other OSes and Offices it's a gamble, but should work nonetheless.

1. If you have any instance of MS Word/Excel/etc. still running, close it.
2. Open (via My Computer) c:\Windows\Application Data\Microsoft\Proof
3. You should see a file named 'CUSTOM.DIC', open it in your favorite text editor
4. Find the offending word ('armoury' in this case) and remove it, making sure you don't accidentally leave a blank line behind
5. Save the file, close the editor and restart MS Word.
6. Just to be sure, test if the word is recognized as valid. If not, you're done.

[Harley]

Lol theres an easier way. Tools - Auto correct - Look for Armoury - Delete the entry. Voilera

[BlackHawk]

Lol theres an easier way. Tools - Auto correct - Look for Armoury - Delete the entry. Voilera

Yes, but for some weird reason it doesn't work for me. That option is either grayed out, or behaves in totally unexpected ways (!) , so I devised a foolproof way instead

Edited by BlackHawk, 02 May 2006 - 03:45 AM.