Add a medical dictionary

[Guest]

I would like to add the entire Dorlands Medical Dictionary to my MS Word
2003, but when I do TOOLS, CUSTOM DICTIONARY, ADD, and I enter the file to
open, it only leaves the file name bar blank. Is it possible to add an
entire new, already published dictionary?

 

[Graham Mayor]

Not unless the dictionary is intended to be used in such a manner. Custom
dictionaries are text files with a list of Words one to a line. Unless your
dictionary is similar, or its content can be exported to such a text file, I
doubt very much that it can be added as a custom dictionary. Third party
dictionary tools that are intended to be used with Word are usually supplied
with an add-in to integrate the two.

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