A custom dictionary is useful if, for example, your work relies on a particular terminology, such as legal terms. Alternatively, you could create a custom dictionary that includes the names of your work contacts so that you know you're always spelling their names correctly.

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When you use the spelling checker, it compares the words in your document with those in the main dictionary. The main dictionary contains the most common words, but it might not include proper names, technical terms, or acronyms. In addition, some words might be capitalized differently in the main dictionary than in your file. Adding such words or capitalization to a custom dictionary prevents the spelling checker from flagging them as mistakes. You can create additional custom dictionaries to complement the default dictionary that is included with the Office for Mac applications.

Note: Any custom dictionary setting that you change in one Office for Mac application affects all the other applications. For example, you set many of the custom dictionary settings in Word, and then see the changes the next time you open PowerPoint or Excel.

Add a word from your document to a custom dictionary

  1. In the document, select the word that you want to add.
  2. On the Tools menu, click Spelling and Grammar.
    Note: The Spelling and Grammar dialog box won't open if no spelling or grammar errors are detected, or if the word you are trying to add already exists in the dictionary.
  3. In the Add words to menu, select the dictionary you want to add your word to.
  4. Click Add.

Create a new custom dictionary in Word

You can save a new custom dictionary in any location on your computer. Or, to give other users access to your dictionary, you can save it to a network folder

Note: Any custom dictionary that you create in Word is used by other Office for Mac applications.
  1. Make sure that a document is open.
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    If no document is open, the next step won't work.
  2. On the Word menu, click Preferences.
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  3. Under Authoring and Proofing Tools, click Spelling and Grammar.
  4. Under Spelling, click Dictionaries.
  5. Click New.
    Important: If the Convert File or File Conversion dialog boxes open, don't make any changes—just click OK. (The correct text encoding setting is Other encoding: Unicode 5.1 (Little-Endian).)
  6. In the Save As box, type a name for the custom dictionary.
    Note: When you create a new custom dictionary, Office for Mac automatically begins using it to check spelling.
  7. Click Save, and then click OK again to close the Spelling and Grammar dialog box.

Import a custom dictionary in Word

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The Custom Dictionaries dialog box in Word lists the available custom dictionaries the application can use to check spelling. If the dictionary that you want to use — for example, one that you purchased from a third-party company — is installed on your computer but not listed in the Dictionary list box, you can add it.

  1. Make sure that a document is open.
    If no document is open, the next step won't work.
  2. On the Word menu, click Preferences.
  3. Under Authoring and Proofing Tools, click Spelling and Grammar.
  4. Under Spelling, click Dictionaries.
  5. Click Add, and then locate and double-click the custom dictionary that you want to import.
    If the custom dictionary doesn't have a file name extension of .dic, on the Enable pop-up menu, click All Files.

Add, delete, or edit words in a custom dictionary in Word

You can edit a custom dictionary in Word. You can change words that are in the dictionary, or add more words. When you edit a custom dictionary, however, Word does not automatically begin using it; you must select it. The revised version of the dictionary is available in all Office applications.

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  1. Make sure that a document is open.
    If no document is open, the next step won't work.
  2. On the Word menu, click Preferences.
  3. Under Authoring and Proofing Tools, click Spelling and Grammar.
  4. Under Spelling, click Dictionaries.
  5. Click the name of the dictionary that you want to edit, and then click Edit.
    If you see a message that Word stops checking spelling when you edit the dictionary, click OK, and then if you see the File Conversion - Custom Dictionary dialog box, click OK.
    Important: If the Convert File or File Conversion dialog boxes open, don't make any changes—just click OK. (The correct text encoding setting is Other encoding: Unicode 5.1 (Little-Endian).)
  6. In the dictionary file, make any changes that you want, and then on the File menu, click Save.
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  7. On the File menu, click Close.

Change the language that is associated with a custom dictionary

By default, when you create a new custom dictionary, the application sets the dictionary to All Languages, which means that the dictionary is used when you check the spelling of text in any language. However, you can associate a custom dictionary with a particular language so that the application uses the dictionary only when you check the spelling of text in a particular language.

  1. Make sure that a document is open.
    If no document is open, the next step won't work.
  2. On the Word menu, click Preferences.
  3. Under Authoring and Proofing Tools, click Spelling and Grammar.
  4. Under Spelling, click Dictionaries.
  5. Click the name of the dictionary that you want to edit, and then on the Language pop-up menu, click the language you want to associate with the custom dictionary.

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To import contacts into Outlook 2011 for Mac, you sometimes need to make a .csv file of your contacts in a different e-mail program. Outlook 2011 for Mac also supports delimited text file formats such as tab (.txt), comma (.csv), and MBOX file formats, which you can use if your old e-mail program is capable of saving in these formats.

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Importing Contacts is straightforward using a short series of dialogs:

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  1. In Outlook, choose File→Import from the menu bar.
  2. Select Contacts or Messages from a Text File and then click the right-arrow button at the lower-right corner of the dialog.
  3. Depending on the file type you need to import, choose either
  4. Click the right-arrow in the lower-right corner of the dialog to display the Import Text File dialog file browser.
  5. Click the Import button.
    Outlook displays the Import Contacts dialog.
  6. Choose the field names from your old e-mail programs to equate them with Outlook’s fields using the Import Contacts dialog. This maps the old e-mail program’s field names to Outlook’s field names.
  7. Click Import and then, in the next dialog, click Finish.
    Your contacts from the old e-mail program are now in your Outlook Contacts list.