Learn how to edit custom dictionaries in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac. You can add, alter, and remove words.
Author: Geetesh Bajaj
Product/Version: PowerPoint 2011 for Mac
OS: Mac OS X
The squiggly red underline that shows up on some words indicates that PowerPoint considers those words to be misspelled! But that's not always the truth, your spelling may be accurate but PowerPoint merely indicates the spelling error because that particular word may not be part of its vocabulary. Let's explore this more. PowerPoint considers some medical or legal terms which are not commonly used, as misspelled words. To avoid this, you need to teach PowerPoint to spell those words. In other words, you must enhance PowerPoint's custom dictionary.
Of course, not only can you teach PowerPoint how to spell medical words, but you can also teach the program how to spell words that enhance lexicons in various other subjects such as research, law, computing, etc.
Unfortunately, PowerPoint 2011 for Mac does not allow you to edit custom dictionaries, although you can add new words. However there is a workaround to editing custom dictionaries, as we will explore later in this tutorial (yes, you use Word 2011). First let us explore how you can add new words to the custom dictionary from within PowerPoint:
What if you added a misspelled word to your dictionary? Oops! yes, we know this can happen for a variety of reasons. But, typically this occurs because you may select the Add rather than the Ignore All option! Sometimes your cursor just slips. Fortunately, you can remove that misspelled word from the dictionary, and also add new words to the dictionary by editing your custom dictionaries. But unfortunately PowerPoint 2011 provides no such option to edit custom dictionaries. You need to do it within Word, and luckily enough, both Word and PowerPoint use the same dictionaries. To make these changes, follow the steps explained below:
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