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To add words to a dictionary, see Add words to your spell check dictionary.
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If you want to install a dictionary or see definitions and you have Word for the desktop, click Open in Word and follow the steps in Check spelling and grammar. To correct a misspelled word, switch to Editing View by clicking Edit Document > Edit in Browser.Įither right-click the word you want to correct, or select the word and click Review > Spelling.Ī short menu opens to show alternative spellings and words.Ĭlick the spelling or word you want to use.įor more about checking spelling in Word for the web, see Check spelling in Word for the web. The Resume Wizard is on the Other Documents tab of the Templates dialog box (in Word 2003 and Word XP) or the New dialog box (in Word 2000).Word for the web checks spelling, but its built-in word list doesn’t show definitions, and you can’t look up words, add words, or add dictionaries the way you can with Word for the desktop.īoth Word for the web and Word for the desktop mark misspelled words with a wavy red underline. Type one of the excluded words to double-check it's working correctly.Īfter you've added a word to an exclusion dictionary, you can't return it to use by using the Add to Dictionary command during a spelling check you must edit the exclusion dictionary and remove the word manually. Restart Word to make it read your exclusion dictionary. When you've finished adding words, click the OK button to close each of the three open dialog boxes. Type the first word that you want to add and press Enter (or click the Add button). Select the new dictionary in the Custom Dictionaries dialog box, and click the Modify button to open the dialog box for modifying the dictionary.
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Here's how:ĭetermine the name for the exclusion dictionary. To do so, you create an exclusion dictionary: a list of the terms that you want to exclude from Word's spelling dictionaries. "Pubic" is, of course, spelled just fine, but you probably don't want to use it in most of your documentsand certainly not when you meant to type "public." To prevent this from happening again, you need to tell Word that you want it to query instances of this word, even though the spelling is fine.