Hi everyone,

We have a Server 2013 domain and all our workstations run Office 2013. To reduce LAN traffic, we recently moved all our Appdata from the server profile to a local folder on each computer. Since then our option to add a word to the office dictionary is greyed out on all users & workstations. Could this be a permission issue? Or maybe the dictionary files were not copied with appdata?

I'd appreciate help troubleshooting this.

Thanks!

Maike

Hi,

From your description, my understanding is that "Add to dictionary" option is greyed when you right click the words in Office, am I right? If yes, let me explain it:

The Custom Dictionaries file "Custom.DIC" is stored in C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\UProof. If you move the AppData folder from the server profile to a local folder on each computer. This operation may break the connection between Office and AppData folder or lost the DIC file.

Thus, we may change/assign a new DIC file manually, and then the "Add to dictionary" option can be used again.

Steps:

1.Click File tab of the ribbon and then click Options.
2.Click Proofing.
3.Click on the Custom Dictionaries button. Word displays the Custom Dictionaries dialog box.
4.In the list of dictionaries, select the one you want to check.

Hope it's helpful.

Regards,

George Zhao
Forum Support
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