From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Wed May 3 22:54:35 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k444sZjb024663; Wed, 3 May 2006 22:54:35 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l.rootsweb.com [66.43.16.22]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k444s70O004879 for ; Wed, 3 May 2006 22:54:07 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l [127.0.0.1]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k442KbFI021125 for ; Wed, 3 May 2006 22:20:37 -0400 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k442Kbvx021124 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Wed, 3 May 2006 22:20:37 -0400 Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [66.43.27.41]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id k440bGFI018803 for ; Wed, 3 May 2006 20:37:16 -0400 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k443AbD3016126 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Wed, 3 May 2006 21:10:37 -0600 X-Envelope-From: mswebber@gmail.com Wed May 3 21:10:37 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k443Abjb016117 for ; Wed, 3 May 2006 21:10:37 -0600 Received: from nz-out-0102.google.com (nz-out-0102.google.com [64.233.162.198]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k443AXjT007422 for ; Wed, 3 May 2006 21:10:34 -0600 Received: by nz-out-0102.google.com with SMTP id i28so334186nzi for ; Wed, 03 May 2006 20:10:34 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:from; b=lPouA4gottTWY8LWYlhV8hHaeBFM1ru3s3pS+ltoDW6b5UwjUcDPRId5XFKOHNZrm0ggGKy4e4ftsyGzaZIbrs9MgJpHp7wjlibkAUHiaYMjVOdL0oBN35z0kxsJRwTiV6l2e4Ycc5HyfNzZRlbrjaYbAw/FFtA8hQsjV/u/TPM= Received: by 10.36.177.4 with SMTP id z4mr669594nze; Wed, 03 May 2006 20:10:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.2.175? ( [24.86.122.5]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id 22sm6145432nzn.2006.05.03.20.10.33; Wed, 03 May 2006 20:10:34 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <445971C5.1030803@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 03 May 2006 20:15:17 -0700 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (Windows/20060308) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: MaeMay510@aol.com CC: ROOTS-M@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [ROOTS-L] MS Office/Word help References: <257.a421653.318a5a93@aol.com> In-Reply-To: <257.a421653.318a5a93@aol.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: TD X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com 1. Select Options... from the Tools menu. 2. Click the Spelling and Grammar tab. 3. Click the Dictionaries... button. 4. Select CUSTOM.DIC and click Edit. 5. Note the warning: Word turns off automatic spell-checking when you edit the dictionary, and you must turn it on again afterward. 6. Make your edits, and then close the Custom.dic file. 7. Select Options... from the Tools menu. 8. Click the Spelling and Grammar tab. 9. Put a check next to Check spelling as you type. 10. Click OK. MaeMay510@aol.com wrote: > I've written my manuscript on the Johannes Conrad Mohr family in MS Office > 2003. > Naturally, nearly every surname is flagged as a spelling error so with 2500 > names repeated many times, I've had to load them into my dictionary feature. > Once I finish this manuscript, however, I'll move on to the next one and > these names won't be repeated but others will. > I'm still having vision problems, so occasionally I put in the dictionary > two words that have no space between them. > Does anyone know how to selectively remove words (surnames and errors) from > my dictionary? My "Easy" book tells how to put words in, but nothing on > removing them. > Or does it matter? > > Shirley Maynard > Hampton, VA > > >