Learn how to load and use custom dictionaries in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows. Doing so will provide you with so much flexibility in adapting for different types of presentations, or even clients.
Author: Geetesh Bajaj
Product/Version: PowerPoint 2010 for Windows
OS: Microsoft Windows XP and higher
You may wonder what happens behind the scenes whenever you do a spell check in PowerPoint or any other Microsoft Office program. This is what happens: PowerPoint looks at each word you have typed and matches those words with the entries listed within its dictionary. If the dictionary does not contain some of the words in your slides, it goes ahead and marks those words as misspelled. Then it offers you suggestions for changing those supposedly misspelled words to other similar words that can be found within its dictionary.
So, why did we use the term "supposedly" in the last paragraph? That's because PowerPoint's dictionary is quite basic, and includes mainly words used in common, everyday language. If a word does not exist within that dictionary, it is not necessarily misspelled! There are so many specialized words in different knowledge branches like medicine, research, law, computing, etc. that are not common words. Yet, they are perfectly valid as far as spellings are concerned.
To counter this state of affairs, you can buy several specialized dictionaries. In fact, some great dictionaries are also available free of cost. These dictionaries can be then loaded within PowerPoint and other Microsoft Office programs to give you a larger range of words to use. For this tutorial, we downloaded this free Medical dictionary from Raj&Co.
Follow these steps to load a dictionary within PowerPoint 2010 for Windows:
See Also:
Loading and Using Custom Dictionaries in PowerPoint 2016 for Windows
Loading and Using Custom Dictionaries in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows
Loading and Using Custom Dictionaries in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac
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