Comments on: How to Share a Custom Dictionary

By: jay fresno

jay fresno — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 20:46:00 +0000

I gather from this that one cannot share the InDesign default user dictionary. Is it best not to add and remove words from the default user dictionary and always create a custom user dictionary when words need to be added or removed? I’m not able to locate the default dictionary on my computer anyway.

By: Amy Schultz

Amy Schultz — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 19:25:58 +0000

I guess I should clarify that we would like to have this dictionary accessible/editable by all computers by connecting to the server.

By: Amy Schultz

Amy Schultz — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 19:24:32 +0000

I had a similar problem as Alexandra where I saved the dictionary onto our server and it became locked even from the serve computer. I also got a missing file icon when I tried to load the same dictionary onto another computer. Anybody had this? And Adobe can’t/won’t help because they say it’s a server-level issue.

By: Mike Witherell

Mike Witherell — Sat, 23 Sep 2006 15:44:53 +0000

Look out. If a custom dictionary set on a server is accidentally deleted from the server, all InDesign softwares partaking of the now-missing dictionary will stall badly.

Mike Witherell in Washington DC

By: David Blatner

David Blatner — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 02:42:45 +0000

You might check out the dictionaries that ship with aextra software's Spell Checking and Hyphenation plug-ins.

By: Damien

Damien — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 05:27:17 +0000

How do you import or get dictionaries for InDesign CS2?
I am in Australia and would like to able to work more effectively without having to recorrect the auto correct or aaaaargh! is there any where i can get the Oz dictionary for InDesignCS2???

By: Alexandra Lemos

Alexandra Lemos — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 09:01:33 +0000

Strange… when I create the Dictionary, it gets the little lock immediatly. Is it normal?

By: DJ's Boss

DJ's Boss — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 18:41:40 +0000

Get off the internet and go back to work DJ!

By: Anne-Marie

Anne-Marie — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 16:25:39 +0000

Sorry DJ … you’re using CS?

By: Steve Werner

Steve Werner — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 16:25:18 +0000

Anne-Marie did say in the first paragraph, “as long as you’re using InDesign CS2.”

InDesign CS2 revamped the whole way dictionaries are handled, giving the ability to add multiple dictionaries and making it much easier to add words from a word list. CS just can’t do that.