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Anonymous
December 1, 2015
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Correct something in a personal dictionary

  • December 1, 2015
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Somehow I managed to set FrameMaker 12 to mark the word "for" as a misspelling. I have no idea. But now, I cannot add it to the dictionary, and the instructions in the error message about how to fix this make no sense. I have spent hours trying a million ways of editing a personal dictionary, putting where I think it needs to be, importing, merging, personal AND document, restarting FrameMaker, etc... Still thinks "for" is not a word. I have read and re-read the documentation and it just does NOT work. Can someone please, please help? It's driving me batty to see those red squiggly lines all over the place.

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    TechPubs2015
    TechPubs2015
    Participant
    December 1, 2015

    Here's what I wrote for my fellow Tech Writers, hopefully it can be of use to you:

    Update Custom FrameMaker Dictionary

    FrameMaker’s dictionaries are located at:
    C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\AdobeFrameMaker2015\dict

    This file can be edited using Notepad.

    I didn’t bother to re-sequence the words and it worked fine.

    FM has to be closed then opened for FM to recognize the newer dictionary version.

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    Anonymous
    December 1, 2015

    Thank you for your suggestion techpubs2015, but sadly, it did not work. Here's what I did:

    1. Located site.dct in C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\AdobeFrameMaker12\dict.
    2. Edited with Notepad++ to add the word "for".
    3. Save and close site.dct.
    4. Close and reopen FrameMaker.

    "for" still flagged as wrong.

    Arnis Gubins
    Arnis Gubins
    Inspiring
    December 1, 2015

    Use the Dictionaries option in the Spell Checker to manage your dictionaries.

    The path to the actual user Dictionary is unfortunately unreadable due to the concatenation used in the fixed-size window. So the best way to handle this is to write the personal dictionary to a text file, edit that file and then re-import the edited file. Caution: every entry must have a "-" hyphen in it, even if the word is not hyphenated, so you must add a hyphen at the start of the word in this case, e.g. "-xml". Otherwise, FM will crash if this condition is not met [been there, done that...].

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