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I just loaded my Stedman's medical spellchecker on my new PC - MedTran

Posted: Feb 25, 2010

but it's not working in Word. Is there something I need to check or uncheck in Word so that it is my default dictionary? All I see when I open options, Spelling and Grammar, Custome Dictionaries, is custom.dic (default) checked, but it is not my medical dictionary.

Thanks!

Go to options, spelling and grammar, and on the right is...sm - This should do it.

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"speller type." Click on the drop-down menu and set it for "medical." Click on "okay" and you should be good to go.

Sorry, don't see drop down men on right that says - speller type. Any other suggestions

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Thanks for your help.

I have the 2009 Spellchecker and MS Office 2003 and I do not see - MedTran

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any kind of speller type or drop down menu that says "medical." When I installed it, it said it was installed successfully, but it is not working.

Any other suggestions? I was logged into Word Client when I installed it, could that have messed things up?

Did it warn you to close all open applications? Most s/w does. - SM

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Go to Tools/Options/Spelling and click the Dictionaries button. Custom.dic should be checked and your spelling dictionary should be checked.

It probably did warn me, but I probably wasn't paying attention. - MedTran

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I only have custom.dic available to check. I did find the stedmans spellchecker, but there are several files in the folder and I'm not sure which one it would be. I believe the file extension is .lex, but there are several that end in .lex. I've tried them all and still show medical words that spelled correctly misspelled.

Stedman's speller - Mine is

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set (box checked) as my custom dictionary in Word, but it's been on there for so long that I'm not positive how I set it that way! Nowhere do you see any indication that it is Stedman's, at least not in Word. I do remember setting testing the Stedman's to make sure all of the "chapters" (for want of a better word) were working correctly, by spelling a word wrong and seeing if it was underlined, etc. Was there an option when you were installing the software that could have asked you if you wanted to set is as your custom/default dictionary?

It could very well be that - MT4ever

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the 2002 version of Stedman's spellecher is no longer supported so it will no longer work after re-installation. You may have to upgrade to a newer version of Stedman's.

Did you check the Stedman's site to make sure - SM

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your 2002 version is compatible with Word 2007?

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