Getting Custom.dic Location

Neil · Guest

I need to get the location of the custom.dic file on the user's machine.
Unfortunately, I'll be doing this from Access, and I'd prefer to not use
Automation, as that would create a delay while Word is opened. So......

1) Is there a way to determine the location of the custom.dic file without
opening Word?

2) If not, how would one access that information from within Word (using
Automation)?

Thanks!

Neil

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Jay Freedman · Guest

The registry key
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Proofing Tools\Custom
Dictionaries
contains a list of the user's custom dictionaries -- there can be more than
one. The names of the values within the key are digits. Each value contains
the full path to the dictionary _unless_ the file is in the default proofing
folder, which is the user-specific location %appdata%\Microsoft\Proof
_unless_ the "Proof" value in the key
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Common\General (properly
adjusted for Office version) contains something other than "Proof". :-b

It gets really complicated if the user has specifically designated a
language associated with one or more custom dictionaries. In that case there
can be a separate default dictionary for each language as well as one for
"all languages". The language data isn't in the registry; instead, the first
line of a language-specific custom dictionary file contains the string "#LID
" followed by the language identifier; e.g., for English (US) it's #LID 1033
and for French (France) it's #LID 1036. It appears from experiment that all
the default custom dictionaries are listed with the lowest numbers in the
registry key, followed by the non-default ones.

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Neil wrote:

Neil · Guest

Thanks!

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