custom dictionary/wildcards

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Can I add entries to the dictionary using wildcards? For example, I want to
ignore spell check on any string *_* any word with an underscore somewhere
between the beginning and end.

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Steve wrote:
> Can I add entries to the dictionary using wildcards? For example, I
> want to ignore spell check on any string *_* any word with an
> underscore somewhere between the beginning and end.

Sorry, no, Word doesn't understand wildcards in the dictionary -- it would
be treated as literal text.

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