Tricky. Word stores the Ignore words in memory, NOT in your hard drive. So
theoretically if you quit Word, the list goes away - next time you startup
Word, it's gone.
However if you go to File -> Quit in Word you may not have actually gotten
rid of word.
For example, if you're running Outlook and you have it set to use Word as
an editor, even if you quit all instances of Word, Outlook will keep an
instance of Word running. So your Ignore words are not lost.
Sometimes Word plain and simply fails to actually quit and leaves a "ghost"
Word behind. Going to File -> Quit doesn't *always* ensure Word has quit.
Do this: After you quit Word, go to Start -> Run -> taskmgr, enter. This
will start up the Task Manager. Go to the Processes tab. If you see one
called "WINWORD.EXE", Word is still running. You can right click on it and
kill it.
After you kill Word, if you restart Word, your list of Ignore words should
have been forgotten.
If you just want your list of Ignore words to go away, you don't have to
quit Word though. Just go to Tools -> Options -> Spelling and Grammar ->
Recheck document, and that will refresh the Ignore Words list.
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>Hello All,
>
>Can anybody explain word 2003's mechanism to store words which I choose to
>'ignore' during spell check? I followed the following steps several times
>1. Open a new word document and type a 'missspelled' word.
>2. Right click the word and select 'Ignore All'. (Automatic spell check is
on)
>3. Close document WITHOUT saving.
>4. Close all other instances of word if any are running.
>5. Start word.
>6. Enter the same 'missspelled' word which was entered in step 2.
>
>RESULT: The word is NOT red-underlined. That means the word gets saved
>somewhere even if the document which contains the word is not saved.
>
>BUT this behaviour is not consistently same on all machines. On some
>machines it happens that Ignore All option works only as long as some
>instance of word is running. After all instances of word are closed and
you
>reopen word 2003 the same word (which was previously ignored) is
>red-underlined.
>
>Can anybody explain whether this happens due to some file/folder
permissions
>or is it a difference of 2003 editions or what?
>
>Thanks in advance
>-- Sameeksha,
>MCP (.NET)
>
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