Microsoft KB Archive/65342

Stduser.dic= Line in POWERPNT.INI Is Ignored in PowerPoint PSS ID Number: Q65342 Article last modified on 10-29-1991 PSS database name: W_PowerPt

2.00

WINDOWS

Summary:

In the Microsoft PowerPoint for Windows initialization file POWERPNT.INI, the STDUSER.DIC= line is ignored by PowerPoint when it looks for your user dictionary, if there is a STDUSER.DIC file in the same directory as POWERPNT.EXE.

When Spelling is chosen (from the Text menu) for the first time, there are two settings that are placed in the POWERPNT.INI file. The two lines are SPELL-AM.DLL= and STDUSER.DIC=.

However, no path is recorded for the STDUSER.DIC line, even if the Locate File dialog box is used. If this line is directly modified by using a text editor, and the STDUSER.DIC is removed from the same directory as POWERPNT.EXE, PowerPoint will look for the dictionary in the path specified in the POWERPNT.INI and prompt the user with a Locate File dialog if it cannot find the file in the specified location.

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in PowerPoint for Windows version 2.00. We are researching this problem and will post new information here as it becomes available.

Copyright Microsoft Corporation 1991.