Word for Office 365 for Mac Word 2019 for Mac Word 2016 for Mac When you use the spelling checker, it compares the words in your document with those in the main dictionary, the one that ships with Microsoft Word. The main dictionary contains most common words, but it might not include proper names, technical terms, or acronyms that you use. In addition, some words might be capitalized differently than what you want in your document. Adding such words and capitalizations to a custom dictionary prevents the spelling checker from flagging them as misspelled words. For more information about using custom dictionaries, see. Important: Adding a word to a custom dictionary in one Office program makes that word available for spelling checks in all Office programs.

What do you want to do? Open the Custom Dictionaries dialog box The first step in making some types of changes to custom dictionaries is to open the Custom Dictionaries dialog box. • On the Word menu, click Preferences.

With Office 2011 for Mac, you can check spelling and grammar in languages other than English. Word 2011 for Mac comes with foreign-language dictionaries such as Czech, French, Russian, and more. The default dictionary determines which language’s proofing tools Word uses for spelling and grammar. How can the answer be improved? Most Mac applications use the operating system’s spell check feature, and share the same personal dictionary. So if you add a custom word to your dictionary in one application, other Mac apps won’t detect it as a typo in the future. With Office 2011 for Mac, you can check spelling and grammar in languages other than English. Word 2011 for Mac comes with foreign-language dictionaries such as Czech, French, Russian, and more. The default dictionary determines which language’s proofing tools Word uses for spelling and grammar.

• Under Authoring and Proofing Tools, click Spelling & Grammar. Word displays the Spelling & Grammar dialog box. • If you want to use custom dictionaries, make sure the Suggest from main dictionary only check box is cleared. • Click Dictionaries. Word displays the Custom Dictionaries dialog box. Use custom dictionaries The first step to manage your custom dictionaries is to select the custom dictionaries by using the Custom Dictionaries dialog box. • Open the Custom Dictionaries dialog box by following the steps in.