AFter Office 2003 SP3 Update, my custom dictionary is gone...

[ravihpa]

Hi guys,

Am new here. A very good friend of mine recommended me this site. I was having some serious trouble with MS Word. Well, the thing is, by profession I am a Medical Transcriptionist, and I've got like at least a THOUSAND medical words and terms added to my MS Word dictionary.

Now, after I downloaded the Office 2003 SP3 update and installed it, it's all gone now All my words are showing up as RED AGAIN

Guys, please help me out.

PS: I knew something might happen, and I took backup of my .dic dictionaries, normal.dot, etc, but even after restoring all of them, it's still showing all those words as RED

Any help in this regards will be greatly appreciated.

Thanx a lot in advance

[Howitzer]

Can you do a System Restore to a previous point to a day before you downloaded and installed the SP3? I think it should restore everything as before.

Basically, when you had installed the SP3; something should had went wrong resulting the deletion of your custom dictionary.

[Eric B]

How to Download and Install the Updates:

• Important Before you install this update, make sure that the following requirements have been met.
• Microsoft Windows Installer 2.0
  
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4. Visit the following Microsoft Web site:
   
5. Click to download the Client Update
   
6. Click Save to save the OfficeXP-KB816218-Client-eng.exe file to the selected
7. folder.
   
8. In Windows Explorer, double-click OfficeXP-KB816218-Client-eng.exe.
   
9. If you are prompted to install the update, click Yes.
   
10. Click Yes to accept the license agreement.
    
11. When you are prompted to do so, insert your Office XP CD-ROM , and then
12. click OK.
    
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Follow these steps to install the Office XP Input Method Editor Update: KB816218:

Visit the following Microsoft Web site:

1. Click to download the Client Update
   
2. Click Save to save the Officexp-kb816218-client-jpn.exe file to the selected
3. folder.
   
4. In Windows Explorer, double-click the Officexp-kb816218-client-jpn.exe file.
   
5. If you are prompted to install the update, click Yes.
   
6. Click Yes to accept the license agreement.
   
7. When you are prompted to do so, insert your Office XP CD-ROM, and then
8. click OK.
   
9. When you receive a message that indicates the installation was successful, click OK.
   
10. Note After you install the update, you cannot remove it. To revert to an installation before the update was installed, you must remove Office XP, and then install it again from the original CD-ROM.

[ravihpa]

Thanx for helping me out dude. Everything is fine now . All I had to do is reinstall my standalone medical dictionaries (all 16 of em) to make em "integrate" again with MS Word, and everything now is fine I also remembered I had taken a backup of my MS Word settings using the "Microsoft Office 2003 Save My Settings Wizard" just a few weeks back.

I reinstalled all my dictionaries and did a restore of the settings with the "Save My Settings Wizard" and everything is back to normal.

Thanx a lot for all the help guys.