topic Re: Spell Checker - how to set a dictionary? in Modeling

Spell Checker - how to set a dictionary?

Anonymous — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 08:20:56 GMT

How can I point the location of the dictionary for the Spell Checker in AC if MSWord is not installed in the default directory?

According to the Help AC searches for dictionaries in the default installation directory for MS Office (C;/Program files/ ...). I cannot find a way to show it the new destiation.

Re: Spell Checker - how to set a dictionary?

Anonymous — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 15:11:24 GMT

A print-screen with the Spell Checker window message:

Re: Spell Checker - how to set a dictionary?

Anonymous — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 19:28:15 GMT

Eye don,t knead spill chequer.

Re: Spell Checker - how to set a dictionary?

Anonymous — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 22:41:24 GMT

To be honest, the ArchiCAD spell checker has never worked properly for me, and I have Word 2007 installed in the default location! It starts scanning, gets to 298/758, then comes up with the same error message.

I can confirm that the application path is C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12

and that CUSTOM.DIC is found in the folder C:\Documents and Settings\Peter\Application Data\Microsoft\UProof

Does spellcheck work for anyone? If so, what version of Word do you have installed, and what is the application path?

(and yes, it would seem to be an simple and obvious solution to be able to point ArchiCAD to another folder if Word isn't installed in the default place!)

Re: Spell Checker - how to set a dictionary?

Anonymous — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 23:08:18 GMT

Peter wrote:
Does spellcheck work for anyone?

It works great for Mac users - it's built into the system. (Sorry, I couldn't resist.)

Re: Spell Checker - how to set a dictionary?

Anonymous — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 23:12:54 GMT

Matthew wrote:
Peter wrote:
Does spellcheck work for anyone?
It works great for Mac users - it's built into the system. (Sorry, I couldn't resist.)

You show-off! Next you'll be telling me that you can produce PDFs without any extra software!

Re: Spell Checker - how to set a dictionary?

Anonymous — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 02:04:48 GMT

Matthew wrote:
Peter wrote:
Does spellcheck work for anyone?
It works great for Mac users - it's built into the system. (Sorry, I couldn't resist.)

Do you have to switch it on somewhere, 'cos I don't see it? (Works in Safari, for example, but I get no feedback in AC)

Re: Spell Checker - how to set a dictionary?

Anonymous — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 05:54:36 GMT

s2art wrote:
Matthew wrote:
Peter wrote:
Does spellcheck work for anyone?
It works great for Mac users - it's built into the system. (Sorry, I couldn't resist.)
Do you have to switch it on somewhere, 'cos I don't see it? (Works in Safari, for example, but I get no feedback in AC)

It's been so long I don't recall. Probably a switch somewhere in the Work Environment settings.

Re: Spell Checker - how to set a dictionary?

Rod Jurich — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 07:25:07 GMT

s2art wrote:
/......Do you have to switch it on somewhere, 'cos I don't see it? /....

When you get to 14 see attached Stuart
Been toooooo long since I've opened 11
and cannot remember if in fact it was there in 11.

Re: Spell Checker - how to set a dictionary?

Anonymous — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 09:45:02 GMT

I have been contacted by Graphisoft about this issue and they assured me they were working on it! Fingers crossed!

Re: Spell Checker - how to set a dictionary?

Gerald Hoffman — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 20:04:05 GMT

I wonder if they could work on it so it could use Open Office too! We should be able to select any office program that has a spell checking feature or is this too difficult. I am just wondering why I should have to by MS Word just to get spell checking in my CAD program.

Re: Spell Checker - how to set a dictionary?

vistasp — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 02:03:45 GMT

Ideally, it shouldn't depend on an external dictionary at all. If it can use the MS Office dictionary, I'm sure AC can be programmed to use the open source Aspell dictionary which can be bundled with the installation so there is no dependency created.

Re: Spell Checker - how to set a dictionary?

Anonymous — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 15:02:25 GMT

Dictionary should be indipendent from the software!

Is should also be possible to be able to choose which dictionary to use from a list. For example I use an additionally installed dictionary for Bulgarian alongside with the MS Dictionary and naturally I would want to use it too.

Re: Spell Checker - how to set a dictionary?

Barry Kelly — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 03:08:04 GMT

Seems Graphisoft have written an article on Archicadwiki but it looks like only special peaple can view it.
I'm not one of them.
Barry.

Re: Spell Checker - how to set a dictionary?

David Maudlin — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 12:40:50 GMT

Barry:

You might try again, works for me.
The text from the page is (there are also illustrations):

Issue
While running SpellChecker on Windows 7 Cannot initialize MSWord error message appears on screen.
Cause
Microsoft Office Language Settings is wrong.
Solution
In Microsoft Word/Word Options/Popular/Language Settings the Primary editing language should be set to English.
ArchiCAD needs to be restarted before using the SpellChecker.

David

Re: Spell Checker - how to set a dictionary?

Anonymous — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 02:35:25 GMT

Here's the correct link -

http://www.archicadwiki.com/Bugs/SpellCheckerCannotInitialize

Although this was already correctly set on my machine but was still failing!

But - I think I may have found the trigger for this as I noticed it was failing on an existing project, but not an new project with a small bit of text pasted in.

If you have an @ (at) symbol on its own in any text field, the 'Cannot initialise MSWord' error will occur.

Try a simple test for me to confirm - create a blank new project, create some text WITHOUT an @ in, and run the spell check. It should run fine. Now add an @ symbol separated with a space from the other text. Re-run the spell check : error will occur!

Interestingly it doesn't occur if the @ symbol is next to another letter like in an email address e.g. peter@; only on its own!

The problem on mine was probably triggered from the titleblocks on the Masters. They all had the scale written as '1:### @ A3' on!

Hopefully this is the problem, and can be quickly fixed.

Re: Spell Checker - how to set a dictionary?

David Maudlin — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 12:59:09 GMT

Peter wrote:
If you have an @ (at) symbol on its own in any text field, the 'Cannot initialise MSWord' error will occur.

I am not seeing this problem on a Mac, AC14.

David

Re: Spell Checker - how to set a dictionary?

Anonymous — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 13:40:56 GMT

I have seen the link on Archiwiki, but the tip there is for MSWord 2007. As I still stick to MSWord 2003 I just cannot use it!

Re: Spell Checker - how to set a dictionary?

Anonymous — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 18:43:38 GMT

I have a dictionary, "AEC.dic," that is set to be the DEFAULT dictionary in MS Office 2007 WORD. Words added to the dictionary in ArchiCAD get added to AEC.dic (also selected in ArchiCAD), but ArchiCAD appears not to see additions to the dictionary, even after restarting AC15. This also occurs when using the CUSTOM.dic in WORD, and setting ArchiCAD's dictionary accordingly.

The added words are in the designated dictionary, as evidenced by showing up in the word list for AEC.dic under WORD > OPTIONS > PROOFING >..., and as evidenced by spell check in WORD not flagging instances of words freshly added through ArchiCAD's interface.