Hello and welcome to another video tutorial from computer garard dot com
This tutorial will look at using custom dictionaries within Microsoft Word. Now
custom diaries are fantastic. They will enable you to add your own words to them
So typical examples like people's names, company names and locations. These are commonly interpreted as misspelled
words by a mars of word and it is incorrect. They are legitimate words
And if we're going to use them on a regular basis, it's a good idea
We tell word that so that they do not keep confusing them as misspelled words
So first of all, to add a word to the custom dictionary such as computer Gaga one that has been picked up as a misspelled
word in my document right now, I can simply right mouse, click on that word and choose to add to dictionary
as opposed to ignore when I click, add to dictionary that one
I will see that word as OK. But more importantly, what I can't quite see right now
that is the case is that it is added to the custom dictionary
So in the future, when I type computer Gaga, it will be perfectly fine with that
It will know that that is a legitimate word, which it's no problem
So let's look at the custom dictionary because you may wish to remove words from there or add words manually
So you can go in and you can edit it to do that
I'm going to pop to my file tab and down to options
This procedure may be different depending on the version of word you are using
This is word 2010. So I'm going to file options to get into the word options from here
I'm going to proofing where all your kind of spell check in settings are and your grammar checking settings
And there is a button for custom dictionaries. I will click on custom dictionaries
Now, sometimes you may have more than one dictionary here, but I can see
I've just got that one, the default one of custom dot dick over to the right
I have a button to edit the word list. And I want to do such a thing where I can see there are only two
words in here, computer gaga and trainee one which is my user name
I could use this box above to add more words in here quick as if I wish to or I could select a word
and delete it from this list if it has begun to cause me problems or I no longer need it
So I could delete that from the list if I didn't want computer gaga anymore
which would be insane. But if that was the case and it now recognized that as a incorrectly spelled word again
And that is custom dictionaries in marks of word really, really useful
And I'm sure you spell check your stuff and to have more efficient and faster spell check in it is
you know, really important that we get on top of these custom dictionaries. Thank you for watching
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