update custom.dic

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Is there any way to programmatically update (add custom words) to the
custom.dic file (office's custom dictionary file) using .NET (vb or c#)? Any
com interface? I tried looking in the
Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.Dictionary class without any luck, thanks in
advance for any help!
 
Hello Jason,

From your description, you're like to programmatically manipulate the
custom.doc dictionary file of word? As far as I know, generally, this file
would be maintaied by the word application and mostly we'll not directly
access it in custom code. Generally for test, I would suggest you try do
the related operations in Word interface(which will manipulate that file)
and record the related Macro. If the file does be customizable through
custom code, you should be able to locate the related VBA script code in
Macro and then you can adopt the same code logic in .NET interop.

Sincerely,

Steven Cheng

Microsoft MSDN Online Support Lead


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Hello Jason,

Based on my research, Office does not expose interface that we could
manipulate the items in custom.dic directly. But a possible workaround is
to operate directly on the custom.dic file. According to the KB article
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/242135#appliesto. If we want to remove some
items in the dictionary, we could remove the corresponding line in the
file. If we would like to add some entries, please note that the words in
the file must be sorted in ASCII alphabetical order. If you have any other
concern or need anything else, please feel free to let me know.

Sincerely,
Jialiang Ge ([email protected], remove 'online.')
Microsoft Online Community Support

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Hi Jason,

Would you mind letting me know the result of the suggestions? If you need
further assistance, feel free to let me know. I will be more than happy to
be of assistance.

Have a great day!

Sincerely,
Jialiang Ge ([email protected], remove 'online.')
Microsoft Online Community Support

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