Merging Custom Dictionaries

One thing I'm uncertain of: are multiple custom dictionaries additive, assuming they are an active selection in the Dictionaries dialog window? In other words, if I have 2 custom dictionaries, and one dictionary contains an added word and the other does not, does Word look at both dictionaries when running spell check and WON'T flag a term that exists only in 1 dictionary?

For context, I work for a company that deals with medical literature and a lot of client names, so we have a massive internal custom dictionary that I've built up over the years. This text file is pushed out to employees via housekeeping script and plugs into the dictionary list. I also have my own local custom dictionary that I add to frequently. When I inspect the list of dictionaries, I can see my local dictionary and the company-specific one are both visible and checked under the "All Languages" heading in the Dictionaries dialog box. So if I have a term in my local dictionary that hasn't yet been added to the company one, Word would not flag this as a spelling error, correct? And similarly, if I've added a term to the company dictionary that a different user has not added locally, spell check would also NOT flag the term in the company dictionary, right?

We've had some issues lately with spell check not working out of the blue (not catching terms in either my local custom dictionary or the company one) and I'm just making certain that the separate dictionaries are NOT the problem, as I want broad coverage as possible for all users.

In response to William, 30De15, who asks about a dictionary to look up word meanings in MS Word: "dictionary" as used here means simply a list of words, used for checking spelling (more accurately a "lexicon"). To look up meanings I expect there are downloadable dictionaries; and there are lots of online dictionaries (requiring Internet access) where words can easily be looked up. There may be some tools that integrate into MS Word to give a definition on a click. But that's not what this page is about. I'd do a search for something like <lookup word meanings OR definitions "ms office">.

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Qn.can I have a dictionary that can be merged together for instance with a word document? in case that if I want the meaning of the word I just click it to follow it easily?

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This doesn't say where the text file can actually be found.

With small effort there are tools to combine, sort, and remove duplicates from a text file. It's worth learning how to use some Unix tools that have been ported to Windows, and can be downloaded free of charge. In particular, "cat" will concatenate (join) several files; then "sort" will sort the merged result alphabetically; and "uniq" will remove duplicates, leaving only unique lines.

I combined personal dictionaries for several programs with a single command, which took about 2 minutes to write and worked first time (you have to download the 3 programs first). Copy the 3 program files and the dictionaries to combine in the same directory, open a Windows command prompt (CMD) there (or a Linux shell), and type

cat persdict.dat en_GB.usr standard.dic | sort | uniq > mydic.txt

It will create a single combined dictionary called mydic.txt from the 3 files, sorted case-insensitively and without duplicates. This file can be copied over the individual dictionaries for the different programs.