Windows Spell-Check Knows NOTHING

[roseglass6370]

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Anyone else ever notice that, when it comes to typing notes for Chemistry or Biology, spell-check recognizes very few scientific terms? It's SO ANNOYING!!!! 😡

 

[FIREitUP]

k.

 

[BBender716]

k.

 

[CaliGirl14]

 

[roseglass6370]

Sorry for the randomness, it's just incredibly annoying, lol. 😛

 

[Dr McSexy]

I add them to the dictionary as I go.

 

[Narmerguy]

Sorry for the randomness, it's just incredibly annoying, lol. 😛

Lol I understand. I just came to terms with this about 6-7 years ago in 9th grade biology.

 

[roseglass6370]

I add them to the dictionary as I go.

Me too, it's just super annoying and time consuming.

 

[orthomyxo]

 

[JaggerPlate]

It's pretty lame, but does save my life ...

 

[CapnCrunch]

Can't expect it to work for everything... I wonder if you could import a large list, maybe a medical dictionary? 🙂

 

[MichaelRW]

Can't expect it to work for everything... I wonder if you could import a large list, maybe a medical dictionary? 🙂

that would be convenient 👍

 

[Mopp22]

Haha, it always marks my name as spelled wrong. It also doesn't recognize some places-cities/towns, etc. Always have some back-up spelling and grammar checkers, that's what I do.

 

[Dr McSexy]

Can't expect it to work for everything... I wonder if you could import a large list, maybe a medical dictionary? 🙂

Well there's no convenient way to do it, but you can import a huge list of words.

Steps:

1.) Find a list of words that you want to add. Make sure that each word is on a separate line.

2.) Open up list in Notepad (or copy into notepad).

3.) "Save as..." , select "All Files", select the encoding as "Unicode", save as "insert_dictionary_name.DIC"

3.)*optional* Save into or move previous file into --> "C:\Users\(YourUsername)\AppData\Roming\Microsoft\UProof"

*Note you will have to turn on the ability to see hidden files and folders to do this.
- while in a folder- tools, folder options, check "show hidden files, folders, and drives".

4.) Open up Word and go to custom dictionaries and select "add" and you should see your word list in the folder (or browse to find it, if you decided not to save it in the file path above)

You don't actually have to move the file into the same folder as the other dictionaries (Step 3), but it does help keep everything organized.

 

[Sed8&Intub8]

Yup, you can do what the guy above said, or you can download medical and science dictionary patches. That will take care of it.

 

[SourMD]

Anyone else ever notice that, when it comes to typing notes for Chemistry or Biology, spell-check recognizes very few scientific terms? It's SO ANNOYING!!!! 😡

If you have one of those Computer dictionaries like stedman or bio/chem, you can add it to your MS word "Custom Dictionaries dialog box". Enjoy😀