Adding to my spell check dictionary

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I recently discovered and turned on the spell check feature in Outlook Express - it is great for those hasty typos, doncha know, but I have found that when I click "add" for a word it does not recognize (like it keeps telling me I mean "goggle" when I type "Google" and it just tried to get me to change "blog" to "blot") - it only seems to have really added words when I add them in Word or FrontPage.

I did manage to locate the added words recently (in a long list of indeterminate organization) but they were Word words - not email words.

What's up with that???
 
OK - I reawlize I ask far too many really dumb computer kwestions......

........but doesn't anyone feel like taking a stab at this one???
 
Unfortunately, I am not aware of a system-wide personal dictionary, althought I think it's a great idea. If you have 5 applications that have spell-check I think you'll find that they all have their own dictionary, with the possible exception of different applications by the same company (such as Word and FrontPage, not that I know they do).
 
Mar:

This may not be the answer you're looking for, but for all my writings, emails and postings on the web, I rely on Google Toolbar, which, among other things has a Spellchecker that works well, and a very nice, working, dictionary.

You can get it here:

GoogleToolbar


PS: If you use FireFox, it has it's own built in one too, it highlights them in red, right click and you're all set to fix them. And a dictionary too.
 
Paul - I do have a Google toolbar but it is not in my email program.

I use Internet Explorer and Outlook Express and never the twain do meet.

I hate computers!

I may just have to turn off the spell check in email if it continues to so annoy me (or wait - maybe I could make up a list of all of the words it catches me on like "gotcha" and "yer" amd "g/nite" and write them up in Word and add them there...

I HATE computers!
 
Mar:

Since Outlook seems to rely on Word's dictionary, the following might work:

Go to Word / Tools menu and select AutoCorrect Options. Have a look there.

It allows you to add words that you mistype and it automatically corrects them ("yuo" become "you" the moment you type it, etc)
 
But Outlook and Outlook Express are no where near as closely related as Holiday Inn and Holiday Inn Express. They happen to be owned by Micro$oft but there the similarity ends.
 
OK - here is what just occurred to me: if it gives me the screen which allows me to click on "Add" why isn't it "adding"???

OY VEY!
 
Framar said:
OK - here is what just occurred to me: if it gives me the screen which allows me to click on "Add" why isn't it "adding"???

OY VEY!
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Do you really want to know Mar??? Take a pick:
  • The dictionary could be read only
  • The dictionary could have a bug
  • The application could be outdated and needs a patch
  • Your PC could have a bug /virus
  • The moon is not in Virgo
  • It's made by Microsoft, what do you expect?
 
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