To add words to a dictionary, see Add words to your spell check dictionary.
If you want to install a dictionary or see definitions and you have Word for the desktop, click Open in Word and follow the steps in Check spelling and grammar.
To correct a misspelled word, switch to Editing View by clicking Edit Document > Edit in Browser.Įither right-click the word you want to correct, or select the word and click Review > Spelling.Ī short menu opens to show alternative spellings and words.Ĭlick the spelling or word you want to use.įor more about checking spelling in Word for the web, see Check spelling in Word for the web. I am unsure whether this resolves the original issue for this thread but I did not find this complete a description anywhere so hopefully it helps someone.Word for the web checks spelling, but its built-in word list doesn’t show definitions, and you can’t look up words, add words, or add dictionaries the way you can with Word for the desktop.īoth Word for the web and Word for the desktop mark misspelled words with a wavy red underline. The user ID is not available until the user signs on to their account once on the machine. This is by user/ID/account so there can be a new first dictionary, second, etc for a different user ID.Ĭomputer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Common\Identity\Identities\xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx_ADALĬomputer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Common\Identity\Identities\xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx_LiveId The second dictionary would start with a 2. The state determines if the dictionary is enabled The rest of the key name is the identity that you can find below in the registry. The first number is the first dictionary and will be default. "1_16_xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx_ADAL"="C:\\TEMP\\somecustom.dic" If you have any feedback on our support, please click Regards,Ĭome back and mark the replies as answers if they help and unmark them if they provide no help. This method doesn't bring you to the direct solution but may be a way to find it. Click on 'Add' and the word you just added will be in the list under 'Dictionary'. In the 'Word' text field, enter the word you want to add, for example, 'defragment'.
Select 'Custom.dictionaries' and click on 'Modify'. To the new Office install, check the registry settings under "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Proofing Tools\1.0\Custom Dictionaries" to know what changes have been made to let it take effect. Under 'Spelling', click on the 'Custom Dictionaries' button. On the new Office, open Word -> FILE -> Options -> Proofing -> When correcting spelling in Microsoft Office programs -> Custom Dictionaries -> Click "Add" and browse to the dictionary file, open it. If you've saved other custom dictionaries in different folders, copy them too. To transfer the custom dictionary, copy the custom dictionaries to your transfer location.
Us know how to modify the registry keys to accomplish the migration. Since I don't have the exactly same environment, I suggest you try to manually transfer the user's dictionary, after the dictionary is added to Office 365 Application, check what changes have been made in the Registry settings, maybe this can let If you add the registry items in the article to the above key once the users have migrated to office 365 it doesn't work.Īny advice about how we can get our custom dictionary deployed to all of these users without wiping out all of their custom dictionaries would be greatly appreciated. However after Office 365 it appears users are logging into Office applications with their Organisational account and we're seeing the following registry changes a nd the custom dictionaries are However we want to avoid clearing all of the values out of "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Proofing Tools\1.0\Custom Dictionaries" because this will mean that any custom dictionaries our users have manually added will be lost.īelow is the result of GPP registry items we have in place to set custom dictionaries. If we clear all of the values out of "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Proofing Tools\1.0\Custom Dictionaries" and then add the dictionaries in as per the below article's instructions Word will use our custom dictionaries. We are currently in the process of migrating some of our user accounts to Office 365 during which we have discovered that once these account are migrated they are no longer using the organisations custom dictionary we deploy via group policy toĪll users.