User dictionary

Why is it my spell checker reverts to US English every time I paste in some text from another source ? I use Australian English as my preference and cannot see why a bit of pasted text sends my spell checker back to US English. This happens even when the pasted text was written with Australian spellings and came from a document with the Australian English as the preferred dictionary. Am I missing out something in my preference settings ? If so, where ?

William,
Apple has deliberately chosen another method to remind you that you have not chosen to live in the best country* in the universe.
It also has made the default in OSX to retain the format of the copied text when pasting.
You can make the text adopt the format of the text it is being pasted into by using *Paste and Match Style* (cmd opt shift V).
Peter
* Oh how little they know, Ay William?

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"Offive" in the user dictionary and I can't remove it even after reset the dictionary

Hi all,
I found that I have a word "Offive" in my user dictionary.
I tried to remove it by resetting the keyboard / dictionary; however, the word "Offive" is still there immediately after I reset the dictionary.
I searched for the word "Offive" in my contacts and calendars. And, there are no such occurence.
Interesting, the word "Offive" only appears in my iPhone; I have an iPad2, but the word "offive" isn't shown in the iPad at all.
Do you know how iOS user dictionary added this word "Offive" automatically?
When I typed "Offibe", iOS would automatically change it to "Offive" and then informed it's a misspell and I then changed it to "office" by clicking the word "Offive". This is clumsy.
Thanks,
Ting Pong

It wouldn't have been added automatically. Words are added to the dictionary when you decline autocorrect suggestions. You just have typed "offive" and then tapped the '"x" to decline the autocorrect suggestion "office" at some point, probably by mistake.

How to use the User Dictionary---Pls help me......

User dictionary how to use?
1. I have typed all the words in the Oxford hyphenation dictionary and saved text file.
2. I have created new dictionary in the preference file.
3. i have imported all the typed words in the created dictionary file.
4. I have faced the problem. User dictionary is not supporting properly. Can i disable the System dictionary.
5. Most of the words are hyphenating by system dictionary only
Can any one help me out. how to handle this.

One thread is sufficient, please. If noone responds it means they don't have an answer for you.
If you can help the OP, please see his original post at http://forums.adobe.com/message/2169036#2169036
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How to use the User Dictionary

User dictionary how to use?
1. I have typed all the words in the Oxford hyphenation dictionary and saved text file.
2. I have created new dictionary in the preference file.
3. i have imported all the typed words in the created dictionary file.
4. I have faced the problem. User dictionary is not supporting properly. Can i disable the System dictionary.
5. Most of the words are hyphenating by system dictionary only
Can any one help me out. how to handle this.

Please any one help me for this user dictionary how to use. I am very struggling.

Problems with TTS user dictionary with Captivate 8

Hi There, We have installed Captivate 8 on 2 machines at work. We need to use Neo Speech and will be looking to add and modify pronunciations. We are having some issues with TTS. Firstly on my machine I can modify words and save the dictionary but hear messages to say that this is the trial version of Neo Speech. Is there something else I need to install to avoid this?
My colleague cannot use the dictionary on her machine at all as when she tries to open the user dictionary it comes up with a message to say "TTS failed to load" although she has all the voices installed in the same way as mine. Does anyone else have this problem? Have any patches been released that our IT department need to install? Any help is gratefully received as we have a number of big projets with very short deadlines and these issues are really holding us up. Many thanks

Hi Janet,
Here is the workflow to change the pronunciation of a word for Bridget voice. you can follow same flow for others too.
1) open file. "C:\Program Files\Adobe Captivate Voices 8\VT\Bridget\M16\bin\UserDicBre.exe" in your case(win 32)
2) This will open following window.
3) Click on file open and select the default file. this will populate word information table on this window. above screen shot i have already selected the file.
4) if the word for which you want to change the pronunciation is already in the list then just select the word and click on Modify word and then just modify the pronunciation.
5) In case if you want to add your own word then use add word.
6) In case you want to override some spell pronunciation just add that word as new word with relevant pronunciation.
7) Once all the change is done, just click on File Save button and then click on close, if in case again it ask for save then again save it.
That's it.. you have successfully added/changed pronunciation for a word.
To test it just use TTS functionality of Captivate and generate an audio, or even you can spot test using read word functionality.
Hope above steps are helpful and for your colleague's system I am not sure what steps your IT team is opting to install that. In case if possible can you get exact steps. I prefer try in some fresh machine. Let me know whether the above steps are helpful.
Regards
Shriyansh
Adobe Engineering Team,

I want to ask a question. I have an iphone 4.and I need to add thousands words into user dictionary.I means the general keyboard user dictionary.

I want to add thousands words into user dictionary on MAC operate system .then sync it to iphone.
is it possible?

AFAIK, the system dictionary is not one of the items syncronized between the two devices when using iTumes for that purpose.

When I try to use spellcheck, I get the "Cannot find the User dictionary". It has always worked in the past and when I go to choose the main dictionary, it just goes back to the same line, cannot find user dictionary.

When I try to use spellcheck, I get the "Cannot find the User dictionary". It has always worked in the past and when I go to choose the main dictionary, it just goes back to the same line, cannot find user dictionary.

Have you ever created a user dictionary? You have to manually create one, AppleWorks won't do for you. The user dictionary & any other dictionaries belong in the AppleWorks Essentials folder which belongs in the AppleWorks 6 folder in Applications.
Deleting & reinstalling AppleWorks from the original disk will not delete your files unless you have saved them in the application folder. The Mac OS creates a separate Documents folder for your files & that is where the documents you created should be.
Unless all of your documents are AppleWorks 6 word processing documents, Pages alone is not sufficient. The iWork applications - Keynote, Pages & Numbers - can only open AppleWorks 6 presentation, word processing & spreadsheet documents, respectively. They will not open any other type of AppleWorks 6 files or any AppleWorks 5 or any version of ClarisWorks files.

Disappearing User Dictionary after 4.2 update.

Hello All,
Ever since updating my iPhone 4 to iOS 4.2, the option to edit my user dictionary has disappeared. As far as I know, its supposed to be under Settings->General->Keyboard->Edit User Dictionary. It is not.

Here's what worked for me: Connect iphone 3G to mac and launch iTunes. Click on "music" tab on iphone in iTunes, all the songs appear in iTunes...double click on a song to play it in iTunes directly from the iphone's memory. the phone displays a message: "hold on, rebuilding database, this may take a while", when database rebuilds, everything works normal and all my music and movies reappeared in the iphone.
An apple programmer probably forgot to make the database rebuild part of the update. But this procedure forced the rebuild and my songs were now recognized again on the iphone.
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Import txt file into user dictionary

How to import text file into user dictionary through javascript? I can manually import txt file into user dictionary thru "Edit=>Spelling=>User dictionary...". But I don't know how to do it using javascript. Please advise.

Advice? See in some version of the object-model reference under userDictionary. There you'll find a method called addWord(), which looks promising.
Peter

User dictionary edit --- how to?

How do I edit my user dictionary on my iPhone? Mac?

Those are stored in a plain text file in /Users/"username"/Library/Spelling/LocalDictionary. Open it up in TextEdit, delete what you want and then save it.

Missing User Dictionary

Recently I've texted and have added a lot of words to my user dictionary on accident.
I followed the instructions on the manual and went to
Settings->Lang/Keyboard->TouchInput->??
but there's supposed to be a dictionary icon after Touchinput but the dictionary is not there.
Help would be most appreciated!

Adding a word to the predictive text dictionary
Your phone comes with a list of words that it references for predictive textsuggestions.
Sometimes you may need to add a word to the predictive text dictionary, for example a
name or a specialized technical word.
You can add or remove a word on the messaging page while creating a message.
While entering text using the QWERTY keyboard layout, if you tap any word on the
suggestion list, it is automatically added to the predictive text dictionary if it was not inthe
dictionary already.
You can also add a word to the list manually:
On the onscreen keyboard, press and hold .
Tap User Dictionary.
Tap Add new.
Enter the word to add, and then tap OK.
Editing or deleting a word in the user dictionary
You can edit or remove words that you previously added to the predictive textdictionary.
On the onscreen keyboard, press and hold .
Tap User Dictionary.
To edit a word, tap the word itself.
To delete a word, tap the X icon to the right of the word.

RoboHelp 7 User Dictionary?

Our department has just upgraded from RoboHelp 5 to Robohelp
HTML 7 (as part of the Technical Communication Suite), and I'm
trying to find a way to bring my old version 5 user dictionary into
RoboHelp 7.
There doesn't seem to be any way to select a user dictionary
in version 7, the online help doesn't provide any instructions, and
I can't find any obvious dictionary files in either my Program
Files or Documents and Settings folders.
Please, oh please, tell me I don't have to recreate the
dictionary for version 7!

Hi AdamXT and welcome to our community
You posted this question in the RoboHelp for Word category.
Are you really using RoboHelp for Word? Or are you instead using
RoboHelp HTML? If it's RoboHelp for Word, I would think the user
dictionary is specified by Word. So crack open Word and look for
help inside it.
Cheers... Rick

User Dictionary choice snaps back to Main Dictionary choice....

...despite my user dictionary choice showing up in the "currently selected dictionary" window (and, of course, it's one of the user dictionary choices available ans showing in the Appleworks Essentials folder/Dictionaries.)
But every time I prompt "done' and re-open the "select dictionaries" window, my choice has disappeared and has toggled back to the 'main dictionary' window, showing what is chosen as "main dictionary" no matter what I try.
But if I choose my user dictionary when selecting it in the "Main Dictionary" window, it stays, and is usable for spell checking. But switching back and forth like that seems a bit cumbersome to me...
Any ideas?

Adding to what Yvan has said...
AppleWorks allows you to choose one each of four dictionary types at any given time. Two of these dictionaries, the Main dictionary and the User dictionary, are used by the spell check feature in AppleWorks.
When you tell AppleWorks to Check spelling, the feature compares each 'word' in the document with all of the 'words' in both the (chosen) Main dictionary and the (chosen) User dictionary. If it finds a match, it accepts the word as correctly spelled and moves on to the next word. If it does not find a match, it displays the 'word' as a "questionable word", offers some possible spellings, and waits for you to tell it what to do. If you tell it to 'Learn', then the 'word' is added to the current User dictionary, and will be recognized as correctly spelled in future searches.
The remaining two dictionary types, Hyphenation and Thesaurus, are not used by the spell check feature.
Hyphenation is used by the auto-hyphenation feature to determine where to split multi-syllable words when they extend beyond the available space at the end of a line of print.
Thesaurus offers a choice of synonyms to replace a selected word.
Changing your choice of one type of dictionary has no effect on the current dictionaries of other types.
Regards,
Barry

User Dictionary for hyphenation of unknown language, CS3

Hi,
With ID CS3, I'm trying to build a User Dictionary for Armenian (no plugin exists for this). Armenian is well typed in the document with unicode chars (not with old fonts with ASCII code).
I tried using many languages (English, French) as selection both in Characters panel and in Dictionary preferences. (I read in help that user dictionary are used only for languages using Proximity as Hyphenation Vendor).
I can add hyphenated words in the dictionary, but the words in the text are not hyphenated.
I guess it could be linked with some hidden definition of what characters are allowed in each language, hence excluding armenian unicode chars.
Anyway, is there a solution to this ?

Here's a painful workaround:
1) Export an RTF from your perfectly styled InDesign doc. (If your styles are less than perfect, this method will cause you lots of pain.)
2) Open that RTF in Word.
3) Use Armenian hyphenation macro to insert discretionary hyphens in Word.
4) Find/replace the discretionary hyphens in Word with some character that won't drop when placing the doc. (Word's discretionary hyphen probably will.)
5) Resave the RTF.
6) Place in InDesign.
7) Find/replace placeholder with InDesign discretionary hyphen.
8) Clear overrides. (I told you this would hurt if your styles weren't impeccable, didn't I?)

How do you make InDesign CS5.5 save a mixed-case word to the user dictionary?

My spell checker will save most words to the user dictionary, but not all upper case or mixed case words. In my work these are often these since the are commonly used acronyms.
How do I make it save these to the user dictionary?

You haven't mentioned that you have an Adobe product that can create forms but if you have Acrobat, you would save it as a Reader extended PDF (you may or may not want t use Designer as mentioned above. That creates a certain type of form which it sounds like you don't need).
As far as the usage limit, if only a few people will be filling it in, they can do it an unlimited amount of times. The 500 limit only comes to play if you have sent the form to an unspecified amount of people (such as a form for customers that is available on a web site). Then you could only collect the data from that form 500 times.
But, let's talk a little more about what software you have. Acrobat? If so, what version (saving the extended file for Reader users is different between versions.)?

Kotoeri user dictionary

I have tried to change the dictionary settings in Kotoeri, but every time I do this on a new MacBook Pro the wheel of death appears and continues for hours. All I can do is restart. The other tabs in Kotoeri's preferences are fine, but the fourth tab (jisho--dictionary) causes Kotoeri to stall for hours. Is there any way to fix this? As a result my user dictionary does not seem to be working.
Thanks in advance.
MacBook Pro 17" Mac OS X (10.4.7)

Thanks Tom.
The answer seems to be that the dictionary file must be called User Dictionary and must be present in the correct folder. I deleted the old dictionary and replaced it with my own; this caused Kotoeri to hang. Renaming my dictionary to "User Dictionary" and deleting the empty one seems to have solved the problem.
Thanks,
SC
MacBook Pro 17" Mac OS X (10.4.7)
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