Accessing UserDictionary.lex File in VISTA

[Doug Parrish]

Editing the "UserDictionary.lex" file is now a simple matter in Windows Mail
under VISTA. This is the text file where you can add new words in your
emails to the dictionary file inside WM. I have an icon on my Desktop that
opens this file directly. The path to the file is:

Desktop/(user's name)/AppData/Local/Microsoft/Windows Mail

WordPad opens the file for you to check the words you have added. You can
change, add or delete entries, then SAVE the file as it is.

Since I use many unconventional English forms, it's a wonderful access
point, because the spellchecker in WM no longer allows direct access to the
file as the spellchecker in Outlook Express did.

Doug Parrish

 

[Rainald Taesler]

Doug Parrish wrote:

Thanks for the recipe!

Since I use many unconventional English forms, it's a wonderful
access point, because the spellchecker in WM no longer allows
direct access to the file as the spellchecker in Outlook Express
did.

For sure a most serious shortcoming!
Just horrible to have my legal terminology in half a dozen user
dictionaries ...

Rainald

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

Incidentally, Windows live Mail has a built-in editor for the
custom dictionary, one of many little extras you get when
you upgrade.
http://get.live.com/wlmail/overview

 

[Rainald Taesler]

Incidentally, Windows live Mail has a built-in editor for the
custom dictionary, one of many little extras you get when
you upgrade.
http://get.live.com/wlmail/overview

Trying hard in making proselytes again?
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Rainald
P.S. AFAICS no "built-in editor" needed. Notepad seems to be good enough
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[Gary VanderMolen]

I throw in a little (but pertinent) nugget every now and then...