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Setting Up A Central Custom Dictionary

Tomer — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 15:41:24 +0000

For corporate users, you might need the ability to have a central custom dictionary to manage for all users. This is possible with Spell Check Anywhere. In this post, I will explain how to set it up. It is not difficult.

Create a simple text file (perhaps with notepad) that contains the following info. The file should be called Init.ini and placed at c:\program files\spell check anywhere for each user that is going to be participating in the global custom dictionary.

[SpellCheckAnywhere]
GlobalCustomDicAddFile=o:\our-shared-directory\add-words.txt
GlobalCustomDicRemoveFile=o:\our-shared-directory\words-to-remove.txt

The o:\our shared-directory can be in valid path on a central server where this path is available for read-permission for each user.

The add-words.txt can be any file with a single word per line to add as a custom word to the local dictionary of each user.

The words-to-remove.txt are words to force out of the local custom dictionary of each user. This is essential to remove common misspelling that might be added accidentally to local custom dictioanries.

That is it.

Just place above Init.ini file in the same place sa.exe is located. Usually c:\program files\spell check anywhere for each user.

Point to the two files on a central server location with the words to add and words to remove.

When Spell Check Anywhere starts, it reads this Init.ini file and updates the local custom dictionary based on these two files.

You can place write permission to these files to limit to only specific users to edit these files. These two files can be maintain with notepad, one word per line. The words do not need to be in alphabetical order.

Since Spell Check Anywhere updates according to the Init.Ini file on start up. For testing, you can shut down spell check anywhere, and restart it. You don’t need to restart the whole computer.

Good luck.

Secret Way To Instantly Shutdown Spell Check Anywhere

Tomer — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 13:15:42 +0000

If you press the F11 hotkey, or Spell Check Anywhere’s spell check button, spell checking of the current document will start, in any application you are in at that moment, such as word, Outlook, MSN, and etc..

You can completely shutdown Spell Check Anywhere while spell checking is in progress by holding the control key down and clicking the Cancel button. This is equivalent to selecting “Shutdown Spell Check Anywhere” from Spell Check Anywhere’s menu.

If you just want to cancel the current spell check, without shutting down Spell Check Anywhere, then just click Cancel. To stop spell checking, but have all the corrections you have made so far get updated, click Finish.

True to SCA V6.1 downloaded after August 17, 2009.

Ways To Open Spell Check Anywhere’s Menu

Tomer — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 07:44:56 +0000

You can open Spell Check Anywhere’s menu 3 ways:

Double click on Spell Check Anywhere Icon on the desktop.
Click with the right mouse button on Spell Check Anywhere Icon in the system tray (right lower corner of the screen).
Or, if you have enabled the Spell Check button to be added to all Windows, click with the right mouse button on the Spell Check Anywhere’s spell check button.

Adding Multiple Words To The Custom Dictionary

Tomer — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 07:31:50 +0000

While spell checking a document, misspelled words are flagged, you can click on the add-word button to add the word to the custom dictionary.

What if you want to add multiple words at once to the custom dictionary, without being prompted for each one at a time? Lets say you have a list of 500 words you want to add to the custom dictionary.

Then spell check a document with all the words you want to add to the custom dictionary, and when the first word is flagged as misspelled, hold the control key down and then click add-word. This will tell Spell Check Anywhere to add all the words in this document into the custom dictionary.