Share dictionaries between Word and Entourage
Oct 22, '02 08:59:58AM
Contributed by: Anonymous
Howdy this is a followup (sort of) on the silly feature in word which turns *this* into this.
I was going back and forth tweaking my prefs in Entourage and Word, and trying to get them to match, and I discovered that by sharing the dictionary between Word and Entourage, you also by default share *most* of the auto correct preferences.
To set the Dictionary in Word you should:
- Open Word
- Create a new blank document
- On the bottom bar of the document window there's a little picture of a book with a red check on it.
- Right (control) click on this book and go to "preferences" to set the prefs for the dictionary
To set the default Dictionary in Entourage you should:- go to menu Entourage -> General Prefs
- click on the "Spelling" tab
My machine always autocorrected UMass to Umass. I had to fix this by making an autocorrect exception, but I had to make it in both Word and Entourage. With a shared dictionary, that's no longer the case.
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