If you have enabled the option to check spelling while typing in Word 2013, then you can easily add words to the dictionary using the context menu. However, there are situations when it is necessary to add or remove many words at once, or even a whole specialized dictionary. How to be in that case?
We’ll show you how to add and remove words from a dictionary in Word 2013, create new custom dictionaries, and even add third-party dictionaries.
To access custom dictionaries in Word 2013, click the Fillet (File).
Press Options (Options).
On the left side of the dialog box Word Options (Word Options) select a category Proofing (Spelling).
Scroll down to section When correcting spelling in Microsoft Office programs (When correcting spelling in Microsoft Office programs) and click Custom Dictionaries (Customizable dictionaries).
In the dialog box Custom Dictionaries (Custom Dictionaries) You can manually edit the words in each of the custom dictionaries. Select the desired dictionary from the list and click Edit Word List (Change word list).
To add a word to the selected dictionary, enter it in the field Word(s) (Words) and press Add (Add). To delete a word, select it in the dictionary list and press Delete (Delete). If you want to remove all words from the selected dictionary, press delete all (Delete everything).
You can add a word to the dictionary by right-clicking on a word underlined with a red squiggly line and selecting Add to Dictionary (Add to dictionary). Thus, the word will be added to the default dictionary. To change the default dictionary, select the desired dictionary from the list and click Change Default (Default).
Option Add to Dictionary (Add to Dictionary) will only be available if spell checking is enabled while typing. This option is in the dialog Word Options (Word Options) tab Proofing (Spelling) in the section When correcting spelling and grammar in Word (When correcting spelling in Word).
To expand the vocabulary that Word works with when checking spelling, you can include third-party dictionaries in Word. To do this, click Add (Add) in the dialog box Custom Dictionaries (Customizable dictionaries).
Open the location of the third-party dictionary you want to add, select the file with the extension .Dec and press Open (Open).
As an example, we found and decided to add a free medical dictionary to Word.
The added dictionary will appear in the window Dictionary List (List of dictionaries).
You can also create several new custom dictionaries if, for example, you want to split words into sets. To create a new custom dictionary, click New (New) in the dialog box Custom Dictionaries (Customizable dictionaries).
By default, custom dictionaries are located in the folder:
C:Users
The path to this folder will open in a dialog box. Create Custom Dictionary (Creating an auxiliary dictionary). Enter a name for the new dictionary and click Save (Save).
Make sure the file type is selected .Dec (Microsoft Office custom dictionary).
To add words to a new custom dictionary, select it from the list and click Edit Word List (Change word list). Add all the words you want with the button Add (Add) and click OKto close the dialog box.
To delete a custom dictionary that you no longer need, select it from the list and click remove (Delete).
Dictionary file .Dec NOT removed from the hard drive – only the dictionary is removed from the list of dictionaries used in Word.
When you create a new custom dictionary, Word associates all languages with it. This means that this dictionary is used to check the spelling of text in all languages. You can associate a specific language with a specific dictionary so that Word only uses that dictionary to check the spelling of text in that language.
To change the language associated with a custom dictionary, select the required dictionary and set the language in the drop-down list Dictionary language (Language dictionary).
After you have finished setting up dictionaries, click OK in the dialog box Custom Dictionaries (Custom Dictionaries) to save your changes and close the dialog box.
Having set up your user dictionaries as conveniently as possible, you can save them so that you do not have to set everything up again. In addition, now they can be transferred to any other computer. Transferring and migrating custom dictionaries to Office 2010 and 2013 is the same as in Office 2003 and 2007.