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Still have not gotten my Stedman's Spellchecker to work! What is the file name of the Stedman& - MedTran


Posted: Mar 02, 2010

I installed it and it acted like it installed successfully, but it is not working!  I've tried to search my entire hard drive for the dictionary file so that I can manually add it to Word, but I'm stumped!!!  I can find the folder on my C: drive that houses all the Stedman's Spellchecker files and such, but I do not know which one is the actual dictionary file.

Somebody please help me!

Stedman's attaches itself to Word's main dictionary lex file. - SM

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The name of the file depends on your version of Word, but you should see a file in the Microsoft Proofing folder called mssp3en.lex. The number in the file name denotes the version of Word.

Did you go to Stedman's site and make sure your dictionary version is compatible with your Word version? I don't know how they do it now, but for a long time your Stedman's version had to match a specific Word version.


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