I have a large customised text file that I would like to convert & then use
as as a word dictionary file. It is presently a docx file. How can I convert
it to a .dic file.
Also is there a limit to the number of words a dictionary file can hold.
TIA Geoff
It takes a few more steps than you might expect, but it is doable.
- Make sure your current .docx file contains only one word per line, and each
line is terminated with a paragraph mark (turn on nonprinting characters by
clicking the ¶ button on the Home ribbon, and make sure every word ends with
that ¶ mark).
- Go to Office button > Save As. Set the "Save as type" box to save the file as
Plain Text (*.txt). Enter the name with a .dic extension, placing the whole
thing within double quotes to prevent Word from adding the .txt extension.
Word will let you store and use a dictionary file in any folder, but you may
want to save it to %appdata%\Microsoft\UProof where the regular Custom.dic
folder is stored by default.
When you click the Save button, you should get a File Conversion dialog. Choose
"Other encoding" and then choose Unicode from the list. Don't check either of
the options boxes. Click OK.
- Go to Office button > Word Options > Proofing > Custom Dictionaries. Click the
Add button; navigate to the location you saved to, and choose your .dic file.
You can have many dictionary files loaded simultaneously; the one marked as
"(Default)" is the one to which new items will be added by the button in the
spell checker dialog or the Add item in the context menu.
There is no limit to the number of words or the byte size of a dictionary file,
as stated by the article at
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=211489.
