SpellingDictionaryType Property

Applies To

Language object.

Description

Returns or sets the proofing tool type. Can be one of the following WdDictionaryType constants: wdGrammar, wdHyphenation, wdSpelling, wdSpellingComplete, wdSpellingCustom, wdSpellingLegal, wdSpellingMedical, or wdThesaurus. Read/write Long.

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 used instead of the standard dictionary.

See Also

ActiveSpellingDictionary property.

Example

This example returns the type of spelling dictionary used for U.S. English.

myType = Languages(wdEnglishUS).SpellingDictionaryType

This example makes the legal dictionary the active spelling dictionary.

Languages(wdEnglishUS).SpellingDictionaryType = wdSpellingLegal