How Do You Transfer A Word 2003 Dictionary To Another Computer?
When you conduct a spell check, Word searches the standard dictionary as well as your custom dictionary before alerting you of a possible misspelling. The custom dictionary can contain user-specific words that you choose to add to the dictionary while conducting a spell check. You can also manually add (or delete) words to the custom dictionary. Following are steps to take to move a copy of your custom dictionary from one computer to another. The custom dictionary (you may have multiple custom dictionaries) is located under Documents and Settings off your hard drive at: C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Application Data\Microsoft\Proof. In this destination string, “USERNAME” is the name of your computer or the name you use to login to Windows, so replace “username” with your username when searching for the directory and the Proof file folder. You can use Windows Explorer to drill down to the Proof folder in which custom dictionaries reside, or you may prefer to use the Search option f