Add to Dictionary greyed out

Hi Tony,

In the Spelling dialog, click at <Options> button. This will bring up the
Word Options dialog.
then click at <Custom Dictionaries> button
- Make sure that you have CUSTOM.DIC checked
- If it is already checked, you can try to create a new Custom dictionary,
by clicking at <New>. Then make sure you have it checked before you close the
"Custom Dictionaries" dialog.

Please let me know if this help
Sirirat

"Tony" wrote:

> Have Office 2007. Set alnguage to English (South Africa) Now, cannot add
> words to custom dictionary, link is greyed out. How do i enable this feature?
> Thanks

Hey folks. I struggled with this problem as well. In the end I managed to
solve it by making the language of the document and the language of the
custom.dic file, match (the same).

"Sirirat" wrote:

> Hi Tony,
>
> In the Spelling dialog, click at <Options> button. This will bring up the
> Word Options dialog.
> then click at <Custom Dictionaries> button
> - Make sure that you have CUSTOM.DIC checked
> - If it is already checked, you can try to create a new Custom dictionary,
> by clicking at <New>. Then make sure you have it checked before you close the
> "Custom Dictionaries" dialog.
>
> Please let me know if this help
> Sirirat
>
> "Tony" wrote:
>
> > Have Office 2007. Set alnguage to English (South Africa) Now, cannot add
> > words to custom dictionary, link is greyed out. How do i enable this feature?
> > Thanks

Found this posted online
"The most common reason for being unable to add a word to the dictionary is
that the dictionary is set to the wrong language, and in this case the
"right" language is All Languages, so changing to US English was actually a
step in the wrong direction.

Clearly, Word knows that the dictionary exists and where it is, so the
location is not an issue, and it seems to be working in other ways. What you
might try is this:

1. Move the Custom.dic out of the UProof folder.

2. Use the Detect and Repair option (I think this may be called Diagnostic
Tools in Word 2007); perhaps this will create a new Custom.dic. If it
doesn't, you can either rerun the install to re-add the Proofing Tools or
create a new Custom.dic manually.

3. Test the new Custom.dic to see whether you can add words. If so, open the
old Custom.dic with Notepad, select all the contents and Copy, then Paste
into the new Custom.dic. Fingers crossed!
"

I was struggling with the same issue after installing office on my new
computer (XP Pro). Everything was fine on the old computer, but I couldn't
add new words on the new one unless I opened the dictionary by hand and typed
the new word in. I tried setting the language to "all" for Word and for the
document itself, but no luck. What apparently fixed it was the suggestion to
move the dictionaries out of the UProof folder. I put them in the folder
Proof instead and deleted them from UProof, then pointed Word to the new
location. All better for now! thanks

"MarkTech" wrote:

> Found this posted online
> "The most common reason for being unable to add a word to the dictionary is
> that the dictionary is set to the wrong language, and in this case the
> "right" language is All Languages, so changing to US English was actually a
> step in the wrong direction.
>
> Clearly, Word knows that the dictionary exists and where it is, so the
> location is not an issue, and it seems to be working in other ways. What you
> might try is this:
>
> 1. Move the Custom.dic out of the UProof folder.
>
> 2. Use the Detect and Repair option (I think this may be called Diagnostic
> Tools in Word 2007); perhaps this will create a new Custom.dic. If it
> doesn't, you can either rerun the install to re-add the Proofing Tools or
> create a new Custom.dic manually.
>
> 3. Test the new Custom.dic to see whether you can add words. If so, open the
> old Custom.dic with Notepad, select all the contents and Copy, then Paste
> into the new Custom.dic. Fingers crossed!
> "