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Download and install a free dictionary for common medical words.
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Getting tired of seeing red squiggly marks under your diverticula andgranulomas? Install a free medical dictionary for Microsoft Office.
Medical Dictionary Download For Pc
This one change handles all the Office tools: Word, PowerPoint, Outlook,Excel.
Mac OSX
In the Dictionary app on your Mac, type a word or phrase in the search field in the upper-right corner of the Dictionary window. Note: If you add another Dictionary source, wait for it to download completely before searching for a word or phrase. Features more than 38,000 terms drawn from Stedman's Medical Dictionary for the Health Professions and Nursing and Stedman's Medical Dictionary $31.95 /year ( $18.95 if renewing – 40% discount).
- Download the free dictionary and save the unzipped file
*.dic
where Office puts all its own dictionaries: /User/ <user>/ Library/Application Support/ Microsoft/ Office/ Preferences/ Office 2011/ - Open up Word and any document (blank or existing).
- Add the dictionary:Preferences →Spelling and Grammar →Custom dictionary →Dictionaries … →Add …Note, if the dictionary is grayed out, use the ‘Enable’ dropdown to filter‘All files’.
- Quit and restart any Office programs.
Windows
For Word 2013,follow these steps.
Watch a video following thesethe steps.
For earlier versions of Word, follow the steps below:
- Download the free dictionary and save the unzipped file
Raj&Co-MedSpelChek.dic
where Office puts all its own dictionaries: C:
Users <user> AppData Roaming Microsoft UProof - Add the dictionary:Tools menu →Options →Spelling & Grammar →Click Custom Dictionaries →Add
- Activate the custom dictionary. In the Custom Dictionaries dialog box,make sure the check box beside the dictionary’s name is selected. On theSpelling & Grammar tab, clear the Suggest from main dictionary only checkbox.
- Quit and restart any Office programs.
If the above didn’t work for you, please use the comments below to post issuesor fixes.
Adapted fromMicrosoft Help.