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It has been bugging me for ages that the “add” option in my spell-checker in word has been greyed out. Frustrating when Word doesn’t know words like wiki, or podcast, blog, and so on. You can imagine how often I use them and the novelty of ‘ignore all’ has worn off.
I asked the question of the team at CORE today and Derek has come through with a solution that WORKS!! …

not sure of the logic of what I did, but I had the same problem in Word and went through the process in the help menu for “Add, delete, or edit words in a custom dictionary”

Add, delete, or edit words in a custom dictionary
1. On the Word menu, click Preferences, and then click Spelling and Grammar.
2. Click Dictionaries.
3. Select the dictionary you want to edit. Make sure you do not clear its check box.
4. Click Edit.
5. Add, delete, or edit the words in the custom dictionary.
If you’re typing words, press RETURN after each word to put it on a separate lin6. When you finish editing, click Save on the Standard toolbar.
7. On the File menu, click Close.
Note When you edit a custom dictionary, Microsoft Word turns off automatic spell checking. After you close the dictionary file, you can turn on automatic spell checking again.

I simply checked the custom dictionary check box, but didn’t actually go through with setting one up
then I went back to Preferences, clicked on Spelling and Grammar, and re-checked “Check spelling and grammar as you type” - and voila - the ‘add’ feature works!

Something to try anyway
Derek

so for anyone with the same issue - here is how to solve it.
sad that this is a highlight of my day really …. back to some more reports ….

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