adding a .lex file to word

[Guest]

I have a 1989 spell-med.lex file that I need to add to my Office/word 2002
program. My wife is a nurse and needs the medical lexicon.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Assuming Word 2003 (the procedure will be similar in other versions):

1. Go to Tools | Options | Spelling & Grammar.

2. Click Custom Dictionaries...

3. Click Add... and choose "All Files" as the file type.

4. Navigate to the location of spell-med.lex.

5. Select it and double-click or click OK.

6. Make sure the box beside it is checked in the Custom Dictionaries dialog.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

What happens if you rename Spell-Med.lex to Spell-Med.dic? Alternatively,
assuming that this is a commercial add-in, what do the vendor's installation
instructions say? A Google search for "spell-med.lex" turns up nothing, so I
haven't any further ideas.

If it is the product called SpellMed, however, see
http://www.qsrhelp.com/spellmed.shtml

That seems to be a popular name, however; see also
http://transcription.thevlc.com/features/smartechnologies_list.html#spellmed

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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Did as you instructed. It comes back with a warning box " Spell-Med.lex not
availible" . Any other thoughts

 

[Guest]

It is a legally purchased Microsoft Medical Lexicon for, I think, Word 2, in
Oct, 1989. It is listed as a 279Kb sized, dictionary type file, when detail
viewing is used while using My Computer doing a DIR of A: .

 

[Jay Freedman]

With a file that old, there's a high probability that you won't be
able to use it unless you still have the software it was meant to work
with.

Try opening the spell-med.lex file with Notepad. If you see the words,
one per line, then you can rename it as spell-med.dic as Suzanne
recommended, and you can use it as a custom dictionary in recent
versions of Word.

If Notepad shows you only "garbage" (its attempt to display binary
data as printable characters), you might as well throw it away. It'll
be of no use with anything more recent -- I'd guess Word 6.0 would
have been the last version that could read it.

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Jay Freedman
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