Hmm. Sorry you lost all that.



I'm looking at my own files, and I didn't see anything under Spelling or UProof that looked like it contained my custom words.

Mine seem to be under c:\Users\[me]\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Office\16.0\ - there are two randomly named subfolders there and in each is a file called RoamingCustom.txt. By looking at the words, it appears to be a shared dictionary between Word docs, possibly Excel and probably Outlook, since I see some surnames there who are probably only people I've Emailed and not written about in Word.

I did not end up losing anything - the fresh install reinstalled the standard Word dictionary. My custom dic. was never affected
- but I believe it is called custom.dic by default:


File > Options > Proofing > Custom Dictionaries...
then highlight the dictionary file and click 'Edit Word List', which should reveal all your custom words.


I hope that helps.
David

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