how to add a word to custom dictionary in word 2007

#How to add a word to custom dictionary in word 2007 how to#

Now, let’s see what else Spell Check will look at. I do tend to click on Change All, so that I save time and mouse clicks correcting the same form of the same word over and over again. This includes capital letters, so it will now flag up “Misteaks” as a new error and make some new suggestions, the second of which is the correct one. Note, however, that it will not change “misteak” – it only looks for the exact same word. I’m going to click on Change All, and this will automatically change all examples of “misteaks” to “mistakes” in the text. This is really useful if you notice that you’re mistyping a word regularly.

AutoCorrect brings up the AutoCorrect screen (see this article for more on AutoCorrect) which allows you to set up an automatic correction for the future, so whenever you type “misteaks” it will change to “mistakes”.

Change All will change every instance of “misteaks” to “mistakes”.

Change will change just that instance of “misteaks” to “mistakes”.

I have used this for my name in the past, which is why this Spell Check process won’t pick up “Broomfield” or “Dexter”, and I also add in commonly used technical terms and jargon that comes up a lot in the texts I work with.

Add to Dictionary will add that exact word to the Spell Check dictionary so it will never ask you ever again if you’ve miss-spelled it.

Ignore All will ignore that exact word throughout the rest of the piece.

Ignore Once will ignore just that instance of the word in question.

To the right, we have some buttons – Ignore Once / Ignore All / Add to Dictionary are to be used when we know what we typed is correct and we want to keep it Change / Change All / AutoCorrect will allow us to make that change: “Mistakes” is highlighted, but if I did mean “mistake” or “mistreats”, I can click on one of those. Spell Check has highlighted “misteaks” and you can see in the Suggestions box below that it’s suggested the closest word first, then a few other options. We’ll look at that in a minute, but let’s concentrate on what happens when it gets it right. Here, I started at the beginning of the text, but you’ll notice that it’s missed out “peace of txt” even though that is clearly wrong.

Word will highlight each word that it thinks is incorrect, starting with the first one: With your cursor at the beginning of the document, click on the Spelling and Grammar button.

#How to add a word to custom dictionary in word 2007 how to#

If you want to learn how to add buttons to the QAT, read this article. I’ve added the Spell Check button there because I use it a lot. The eagle-eyed among you will have spotted the same icon in the Quick Access Toolbar at the very top of the document. We run Spell Check from the Review tab in Word: It’s worth running it even if you think your writing is perfect and you’ve read through the document finding no mistakes – there’s always something, and that’s why, even though I’m an editor, I use spell check on my own posts and as a final check on documents I’ve edited, and why I have an editor for my books! How do I start Spell Check? We usually run a spell check after writing a document, although you can ask Word to check spellings as you go along (I personally find this distracting). You can then choose to change the word to one of its suggestions, change all instances of that word to the suggestion, or ignore the “error” once or always.

If it can, it will offer alternative spellings for you to choose from. Spell Check will go through your document and highlight any words that it thinks are spelled incorrectly. It’s not perfect, but it will pick up all sorts of errors and typos that you might not realise you’ve made. Spell check is a function in Word that will check both the spelling and appropriate word use in your document. I have written about Word 2013 separately as it’s a bit different. This article works with Word 2007 and Word 2010 – screen shots are taken from Word 2010. In this article we’re going to talk about using the spell checker function in Word, including how to find it, how to use it, and when not to believe it.