Recovery of dictionary for MS Office 2003

[exgovie]

Have a friend running WindowsXP and had MS Office 2003 before hard
drive problems. Did not have a good backup system and seems to have
lost a dictionary of special geological terms that he has built into
MS Word over several years. The dictionary maybe still on a damaged
Acronis backup but not sure where to look for it. Can some one tell me
where MS Office 2003 stores the dictionary/dictionaries? Also possibly
what file names to be looking for?

Thanks in advance

Exgovie

 

[Jim Wood]

Have a friend running WindowsXP and had MS Office 2003 before hard
drive problems. Did not have a good backup system and seems to have
lost a dictionary of special geological terms that he has built into
MS Word over several years. The dictionary maybe still on a damaged
Acronis backup but not sure where to look for it. Can some one tell me
where MS Office 2003 stores the dictionary/dictionaries? Also possibly
what file names to be looking for?

Thanks in advance

Exgovie

MSWord 2000 in XP is as follows
C:\Documents and Settings\***Username**\Application
Data\Microsoft\Proof\custom.dic

Substitute your Username in the ***Username** above (no stars)

 

[exgovie]

MSWord 2000 in XP is as follows
C:\Documents and Settings\***Username**\Application
Data\Microsoft\Proof\custom.dic

Substitute your Username in the ***Username** above (no stars)

Thanks for reply. We were looking at program files/common files/
Microsoft share/ etc. for words added to the basic dictionary rather
than a "custom dictionary" which he did on do because he did not how
to make one. Now is the dictionary for the main Word software also in
the place you said for the custom ones?

 

[Jim Wood]

Thanks for reply. We were looking at program files/common files/
Microsoft share/ etc. for words added to the basic dictionary rather
than a "custom dictionary" which he did on do because he did not how
to make one. Now is the dictionary for the main Word software also in
the place you said for the custom ones?

My recollection of the dictionary function of MSWord is that any added
word is filed in "proof" as above in a file by default named
"custom.dic". That is certainly the file I regularly backup to augment
the main dictionary (I used Australian English)