Ow I can add list of words to pages dictionary

One way is to paste all the words in a Pages document and do spell check. It will take some time as you have to tell Pages to Learn the word for each word.

I am trying to find another way to add so many words at one time but the ways I could do it earlier doesn't work in Snow Leopard.

Hi Corel-CH

Welcome to the forum. 🙂

Check first that you can't just get 3rd party Dictionaries including medical to use with Pages.

http://www.macupdate.com and search for dictionaries.

In OSX 10.6 you can add dictionaries "borrowed" from applications like OpenOffice.

Peter

Good Peter, you put me on the right track. There is an application in which you also can make your own dictionary if I remember right. It is named Excalibur. It doesn't work as the dictionary in Pages . You copy all text you want checked, open Excalibur. which does a check on the copied text and then you put the text back in the document. I don't think I have tried it with Pages, but it sholdne't be a problem.

_ http://excalibur.sourceforge.net/index.html_

Why should that be more complex? I have medical terms , over 7000, in my dictionary. If you use Excalibur I think you'll make it easy for you. There isn't any way to put your 1600 medical terms in a Pages dictionary without doing a spellcheck routine. They will be in french mode though.

In what format do you have your medical terms? What does it look like if you open all the word in a document?

How have you the Pages document formatted? Do you have page breaks between the words?

Corel-CH wrote:
Hello everyone, and thank you for your responses. My problem is somewhat more complex because the medical terms that I would add are in French.
Peter, how can I take other dictionaries in OSX 10.6?

I am still in Leopard.

My guess is that you go to preferences in Dictionary .app and where I see only Apple's dictionaries and Wikipedia, you might be offered the option of choosing/browsing to alternate dictionaries.

You will have to look amongst OpenOffice's folders/Libraries/Application support for the actual dictionary files.

I looked in mine and haven't spotted anything yet. These links may help. I can't try them in Leopard.

http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=14135

http://neowiki.neooffice.org/index.php/AddingAdditionalDictionaries

http://www.khmeros.info/drupal612/node/3295

http://www.macosxfreeware.com/neooffice-3-0-2-patch-1-mac-tailored-openoffice-ba sed-productivity-suite/

http://www.bytebot.net/openoffice/faq.html

Peter

Peter she has her own dictionary list and wants to add them to Pages. It can be done by doing a Spell check and press the button for learning 1600 times. It can be done. I did it for 8000 times when adding an old list that Snow Leopard couldn't translate from Leopard.

Easiest way is to use Excalibur