Mac Works: Excel Custom Dictionary Overwrites Custom Dictionary
  
PSS ID Number: Q102824
Article last modified on 10-22-1998
 
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The information in this article applies to:
 
 - Microsoft Works for the Macintosh, version 3.0
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SYMPTOMS
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The Microsoft Works custom dictionary disappears when Microsoft Excel
4.0 is installed on a Macintosh already running Works. This behavior
occurs because Works and Excel place their custom dictionaries in the
same location:
 
   System Folder:Extensions:Microsoft:Spelling
 
This is only a problem if the Works custom dictionary's creation date
is earlier than April 28, 1992. Dictionaries with later creation dates
do not exhibit this problem.
 
WORKAROUND
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1. Before installing Excel, move the Works custom dictionary file out of
   the Spelling folder.
 
2. Install Excel.
 
3. Return the Works custom dictionary to the Spelling folder after the
   installation of Excel is complete.
 
KBCategory: KBOTHER
KBSubcategory: macworkskb
 
Additional reference words: 3.00 mac mwkswp mwksprb M_eXcel
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Version           : 3.0
Platform          : MACINTOSH
Issue type        : kbprb
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