can one directly edit the custom dictionary?

Question

Apparently I mistakenly added a bad word to the custom spelling dictionary.

How can I remove the bad word?
Where is this dictionary stored? I'd hope for it to be in a text file I could edit directly.

Can you check if there's anything in the folder returned by FileNames[FileNameJoin[{$UserBaseDirectory, "Autoload", "SystemFiles", "SpellingDictionaries"}]]? — J. M.'s missing motivation, Oct 12 '16 at 03:45

score 4 · Answer 1 · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:56

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As shown here, you can edit your dictionaries in advanced options menu:

Edit -> Preferences... -> Advanced -> Open Option Inspector -> Formatting Options -> Text Content Options -> Spelling Dictionaries

Or you can set SpellingDictionaries option programmatically with SetOptions[] command, as shown in this answer.

Something like this should work:

file = Import["words.txt","List"]
SetOptions[$FrontEndSession, SpellingDictionaries -> {"CorrectWords" -> file}]

P.S. Replace \$FrontEndSession with \$FrontEnd for a permanent global setting.

edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:56

Community

answered Oct 12 '16 at 05:23

Stepan

While the link you offer does not discuss removing words, the menu path you suggest does work. The interface is slow and awkward, so I would like programmatic access. I suppose I should be able to deduce this from the menu path, but I did not. Can you add this to your answer? – Alan Oct 12 '16 at 15:31

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