Microsoft KB Archive/69492

PowerPoint and Word for Windows Can Share Dictionaries PSS ID Number: Q69492 Article last modified on 10-29-1991 PSS database name: W_PowerPt

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WINDOWS

Summary:

You can save disk space by having PowerPoint for Windows and Word for Windows share the same dictionary and spelling checker. Word for Windows can use the spelling checker that comes with PowerPoint for Windows, but PowerPoint cannot use the spelling checker that comes with Word.

More Information:

To arrange things so that both applications share the same spelling checker and dictionary, do the following:


 * 1) In the PowerPoint directory, rename the file SPELL-AM.DLL to LEX-AM.DLL.
 * 2) Move the newly named LEX-AM.DLL file to the Word for Windows directory (replacing the file with the same name that is currently located there).
 * 3) Move the LEX-AM.DAT file from the PowerPoint directory to the Word for Windows directory (replacing the file with the same name that is currently located there).
 * 4) Make sure that there is no LEX-AM.DAT or SPELL-AM.DLL file located in the PowerPoint for Windows directory.

Word for Windows spelling will continue to work normally. The next time you go into PowerPoint to use the spelling checker, a dialog box will appear asking you to find SPELL-AM.DLL.

  Type the path and name of the renamed file. For example: C:-AM.DLL   Click the OK button in the File Find dialog box, or press ENTER: 

PowerPoint will bring up the spelling checker and remember where the spelling checker is located so that the next time you need to run the spelling checker, you won’t get the dialog box.

Copyright Microsoft Corporation 1991.