How to add a custom dictionary in Outlook?
Have you tailored dictionaries in other applications and want to bring them into your Outlook experience? Microsoft Outlook allows you to add custom dictionaries, enhancing your ability to communicate with precision. This guide will show you how to seamlessly import and integrate your custom dictionaries into Outlook, ensuring your unique vocabulary is always at your fingertips. Follow these straightforward steps to get started.
Add a custom dictionary in Outlook
Edit and remove your custom dictionaries
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Add a custom dictionary in Outlook
Step 1: Click File > Options in Outlook.
Step 2: In the Outlook Options dialog box, click Mail from the left pane. On the right pane under Compose messages, click the Spelling and Autocorrect button. See the following screenshot:
Step 3: In the Editor Options dialog box, click the Proofing in the left bar.
Step 4: In the When correcting spelling in Microsoft Office programs section, click the Custom Dictionaries button. See the following screenshot:
Step 5: In the Custom Dictionaries dialog box, click the Add button.
Step 6: In the popping-up Add Custom Dictionary dialog box, browse and select your custom dictionary, and click the Open button.
Step 7: After clicking the Open button in the former step, you can see the new custom dictionary is added to the dialog box. Please click the OK buttons in the following dialogs to finish the settings.
Now your custom dictionary is added to Microsoft Outlook.
Edit and remove your custom dictionaries
By the way, in the Custom Dictionaries dialog box, you can remove your custom dictionary by selecting the dictionary in the dictionary list, and then clicking the Remove button.
In the Custom Dictionaries dialog box, you can also edit your custom dictionary with the Edit Word List button after you select it in the Dictionary List.
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