Microsoft's TechNet site offers an overview of Office 2007 migration. Word 2007 introduced Building Blocks, which complicate migration of customizations from previous versions. KB article 826147 on the Microsoft Support site describes the same process for Word 2003.
Those instructions should also apply to Word 2010. Microsoft provides instructions for moving your custom AutoCorrect entries between Word 2007 installations in Knowledge Base article 926927. If you want to import your AutoCorrect and AutoText entries, macros, and other Word customizations, you have to close Word and all other Office programs, root around in system folders to find and copy specific files, and then paste the files into the equivalent folders on the destination PC. Shouldn't we be able to transfer our handcrafted AutoCorrect entries and other customizations between PCs without having to drag system files between folders that would be a challenge to find even if their location didn't change with every new version of Word?īut no. I take no pleasure in criticizing Microsoft's inability to meet the needs of its customers, but some of us have been using Word for close to 20 years. Unfortunately, the macro, written by Microsoft MVP Dave Rado, is no longer available.
#Find custom dictionary in word 2007 Pc
In the Find, it means the duplicate of whatever was found by () in the Replace, it means replace the duplicated word with the first word found.Back in May 2008, I described a macro that made it easy to copy custom AutoCorrect entries from a version of Microsoft Word on one PC to a Word installation on another machine. NOTE: Normally you can find a paragraph mark in a Find with ^p, but not with a wildcard Find-you have to use ^013. If you don’t have this situation, leave this out and replace it with a space (two repeated words in the same line are separated by a space). In my situation, each word was on its own line with a paragraph mark at the end of the line. ^013 is the paragraph marker at the end of the line.In other words, you’re looking for a whole ‘word’ of any length and made up of any characters (including numbers). The angle brackets specify the start and end of a word, and the ‘word’ is anything (represented by the *). () is the first element (later represented by \1) of the find.Repeat steps 5 and 6 until you’re satisfied you’ve found them all.NOTE: If the second word is only a partial match for the first word, click Find Next.
Even though I had to skip some of these, it was still worth it to automate much of the process. it thought banksi, banksia, and banksii were duplicates). In my case it didn’t treat the second word as a whole word for matching purposes (e.g. NOTE: DO NOT do a ‘replace all’ with this, in case Word makes unwanted changes. There had to be a better way…Īnd there is! Good old Dr Google came to the rescue, and with a bit of fiddling to suit my circumstances (one word on each line), I got a wildcard find and replace routine to find the duplicates. I started doing it manually-it’s easy enough to find duplicates when the words are familiar, but for Latin words, my brain just wasn’t coping well and I was missing subtle differences like a single or double ‘i’ at the end of a word. a word immediately followed by the same word) so I could add the final list to my custom dictionary for species in Microsoft Word. My next task was to go through and remove all the duplicates (i.e. I’d separated the words so that there was only one word on each line. I had a long list (57 pages!) of Latin species names, sorted into alphabetical order.