Comments on: How to: Add a Free Medical Dictionary to Word 2003/2007 http://davidrothman.net/2010/02/21/how-to-add-a-free-medical-dictionary-to-word-20032007/ Health Information | Geekery Wed, 01 Feb 2012 21:49:12 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: David Rothman http://davidrothman.net/2010/02/21/how-to-add-a-free-medical-dictionary-to-word-20032007/comment-page-1/#comment-204572 David Rothman Thu, 25 Feb 2010 14:10:20 +0000 http://davidrothman.net/?p=2976#comment-204572 For future reference, Julie- Open the .dic file in Notepad, go to File > Save As and change the "Encoding" drop-down to "Unicode", then click "Save." :) For future reference, Julie- Open the .dic file in Notepad, go to File > Save As and change the “Encoding” drop-down to “Unicode”, then click “Save.” :)

]]> By: David Rothman http://davidrothman.net/2010/02/21/how-to-add-a-free-medical-dictionary-to-word-20032007/comment-page-1/#comment-204571 David Rothman Thu, 25 Feb 2010 14:08:31 +0000 http://davidrothman.net/?p=2976#comment-204571 Weird. My copy of Word 2007 didn't care if it was ANSI or Unicode. In case anyone else needs the .dic file in Unicode, here it is: <a href= "http://www.mediafire.com/?3g2jmn5umyj" rel="nofollow">http://www.mediafire.com/?3g2jmn5umyj</a> Weird. My copy of Word 2007 didn’t care if it was ANSI or Unicode. In case anyone else needs the .dic file in Unicode, here it is: http://www.mediafire.com/?3g2jmn5umyj

]]> By: Julie http://davidrothman.net/2010/02/21/how-to-add-a-free-medical-dictionary-to-word-20032007/comment-page-1/#comment-204570 Julie Thu, 25 Feb 2010 14:04:05 +0000 http://davidrothman.net/?p=2976#comment-204570 Raj's file worked. Dunno why! thx Raj’s file worked. Dunno why! thx

]]> By: Julie http://davidrothman.net/2010/02/21/how-to-add-a-free-medical-dictionary-to-word-20032007/comment-page-1/#comment-204569 Julie Thu, 25 Feb 2010 14:01:06 +0000 http://davidrothman.net/?p=2976#comment-204569 Word 2007 says it has to be a unicode file . . . I tried saving as .docx and then changing the file extension again to .dic, but that didn't work - any other suggestions? Word 2007 says it has to be a unicode file . . . I tried saving as .docx and then changing the file extension again to .dic, but that didn’t work – any other suggestions?

]]> By: Raj - MT Herald http://davidrothman.net/2010/02/21/how-to-add-a-free-medical-dictionary-to-word-20032007/comment-page-1/#comment-204564 Raj - MT Herald Thu, 25 Feb 2010 03:46:43 +0000 http://davidrothman.net/?p=2976#comment-204564 Thanks. So please make a note that the download location that you have mentioned earlier in the post will be routed to my homepage. Thanks.

So please make a note that the download location that you have mentioned earlier in the post will be routed to my homepage.

]]> By: David Rothman http://davidrothman.net/2010/02/21/how-to-add-a-free-medical-dictionary-to-word-20032007/comment-page-1/#comment-204559 David Rothman Thu, 25 Feb 2010 01:28:53 +0000 http://davidrothman.net/?p=2976#comment-204559 Nope, but I'll add the link here: <a href="http://mtherald.com/free-medical-spell-checker-for-microsoft-word-custom-dictionary/" rel="nofollow">http://mtherald.com/free-medical-spell-checker-for-microsoft-word-custom-dictionary/<a /></a> Nope, but I’ll add the link here: http://mtherald.com/free-medical-spell-checker-for-microsoft-word-custom-dictionary/

]]> By: Raj - MT Herald http://davidrothman.net/2010/02/21/how-to-add-a-free-medical-dictionary-to-word-20032007/comment-page-1/#comment-204558 Raj - MT Herald Thu, 25 Feb 2010 01:24:31 +0000 http://davidrothman.net/?p=2976#comment-204558 Thanks David for mentioning my blog here. Can you please fix the link to that post rather than hotlinking to the spellchecker itself? Thanks David for mentioning my blog here.

Can you please fix the link to that post rather than hotlinking to the spellchecker itself?

]]> By: David Rothman http://davidrothman.net/2010/02/21/how-to-add-a-free-medical-dictionary-to-word-20032007/comment-page-1/#comment-204545 David Rothman Tue, 23 Feb 2010 17:14:49 +0000 http://davidrothman.net/?p=2976#comment-204545 Waitasec- so you use computers that are really thin client terminals to access desktop-like accounts on a server? Because...if so, that'd make it REALLY easy to roll this out to all users who use such thin clients. Waitasec- so you use computers that are really thin client terminals to access desktop-like accounts on a server? Because…if so, that’d make it REALLY easy to roll this out to all users who use such thin clients.

]]> By: Francesca Frati http://davidrothman.net/2010/02/21/how-to-add-a-free-medical-dictionary-to-word-20032007/comment-page-1/#comment-204544 Francesca Frati Tue, 23 Feb 2010 17:08:18 +0000 http://davidrothman.net/?p=2976#comment-204544 Hi David, I just tried it and it works wonderfully... *except* that I can only install it on the version of Word I have on my desktop. The hospital uses a Citrix server which interferes with our ability to customize (the Cite While You Write feature of EndNote and Reference Manager is also impossible to use for this reason). I will have to contact my IT department to see if they can find a way around this. I'll keep you posted as I'm sure we are not the only hospital with a similar situation. Cheers, FF Hi David,

I just tried it and it works wonderfully… *except* that I can only install it on the version of Word I have on my desktop. The hospital uses a Citrix server which interferes with our ability to customize (the Cite While You Write feature of EndNote and Reference Manager is also impossible to use for this reason). I will have to contact my IT department to see if they can find a way around this. I’ll keep you posted as I’m sure we are not the only hospital with a similar situation.

Cheers,
FF

]]> By: David Rothman http://davidrothman.net/2010/02/21/how-to-add-a-free-medical-dictionary-to-word-20032007/comment-page-1/#comment-204543 David Rothman Tue, 23 Feb 2010 17:06:25 +0000 http://davidrothman.net/?p=2976#comment-204543 Leave it to Mark Funk to make the innocent sound dirty. :) Leave it to Mark Funk to make the innocent sound dirty. :)

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