Custom.dic over the network

[Manta]

I have a plan for my issue but I would like some advice before I proceed

I work in IT for a Hospital and we a department that has some custom
dictionaries that they have been sharing over the network for years. We just
finished upgrading to office 2007 and I noticed something odd. A got a call
from a new person who said they can't access the dictionaries on the network.
I went to aim her to the correct dictionaries and I got a message saying
"Files without Unicode encoding can't be added to the dictionary list. Save
the file as a Unicode file to add it to the dictionary list"

My first thought that this was just a n issue with going from 2003 to 2007
and I would just have to save them as the Unicode rather than the current
ANSI. However everyone one else in the department was able to access them. I
found out that somehow the dictionaries saved a local copy (under
username\application data\microsoft\Uproof) and they were using that instead
if the network. I'm not sure how this happened.

I figure that all I would have to do is save the dictionaries under the
Unicode on the network and aim everyone to them. Can people share these
dictionaries or will the system try and get them to have their own local
copies?

 

[Graham Mayor]

I can certainly foresee a custom dictionary configured as default running
into sharing issues (though it is not something I have tested extensively),
but Word can use more than one custom dictionary and it should be possible
to share a (unicode) supplementary dictionary from a network location.
Testing here I have been able to share such a custom dictionary from a
network drive to PCs running Word 2007 and Word 2003. The dictionary so
configured does not affect the default dictionary or its location. Note that
custom dictionaries may also be shared with other applications.

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[Manta]

From what my understanding is from the original setup (I only started here 5
months ago) they have been using 4 shared calendar for 12 years or something
liek that. I can also see some sharing issues since about 10 people use this
calendar at once. I wonder if it wouldn't be better for each user to have
their own set of calendars on their personal network folder rather than a
shared one.

 

[Graham Mayor]

Word is a single user application. Only one user at a time can have control
of a document. Others may read it. How you configure your documents depends
on how you wish to use them.

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