

The first thing was to find out where the dictionary files are stored.


I wanted a special dictionary file that I could copy and use on other computers, and turn off if I no longer needed it, so I didn’t want these words added to my default dictionary. I had 4000+ Latin and common species names I’d gathered from public lists that I wanted to add to a unique dictionary so that Word didn’t flag them as spelling errors, except if they really were spelling errors or if they were species I hadn’t included in my species dictionary. I had such a situation a few months ago, but neglected to write up what I did. But what if you have thousands? Doing it one word at a time using the usual methods is painfully slow and not ergonomically sound. But most assume you only have a few words to add to that dictionary. There are plenty of websites that tell you how to create a custom dictionary in Microsoft Word.
