SpellingDictionaryType Property
Returns or sets the proofing tool type. Read/write WdDictionaryType.
| WdDictionaryType can be one of these WdDictionaryType constants. |
| wdGrammar |
| wdHangulHanjaConversion |
| wdHangulHanjaConversionCustom |
| wdHyphenation |
| wdSpelling |
| wdSpellingComplete |
| wdSpellingCustom |
| wdSpellingLegal |
| wdSpellingMedical |
| wdThesaurus |
expression.SpellingDictionaryType
expression Required. An expression that returns a Language object.
Remarks
You can use this property to change the active spelling dictionary to one of the available add-on dictionaries that work with Word. For example, there are legal, medical, and complete spelling dictionaries you can use instead of the standard dictionary.
Some of the constants listed above may not be available to you, depending on the language support (U.S. English, for example) that you’ve selected or installed.
Example
This example returns the type of spelling dictionary used for U.S. English.
myType = Languages(wdEnglishUS).SpellingDictionaryTypeThis example makes the legal dictionary the active spelling dictionary.
Languages(wdEnglishUS).SpellingDictionaryType = wdSpellingLegal