Dictionaries

In Contributor, dictionaries to support the spell checking and thesaurus features. See Spell Check.

Built-In Dictionaries

You can use built-in dictionaries in Contributor, you select a language.

These built-in dictionaries are automatically stored in the App Data folder on your computer, which can be accessed in various ways, depending on your operating system. For example, here is how you can open this folder in Windows 10:

1. In the search field at the bottom of the screen, type %appdata% and press ENTER.
2. Open the MadCap Software subfolder, then Dictionaries, and finally Installed.

You can also see which dictionaries are installed on your computer by opening the Options dialog (File > Options) in Contributor and selecting the Spelling tab. See Options Dialog.

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Custom Global Dictionaries

In addition to all of the built-in dictionaries that are installed on your computer, you can develop custom dictionaries. You can think of these as supplements to the built-in dictionaries. A custom dictionary is created and modified automatically whenever you perform a spell check and tell Contributor that a questionable word is okay and should be added to a dictionary. See Spell Checking While Typing and Spell Checking Manually.

A global dictionary is a file that contains words and can be used for spell checking by any Contributor file you open on your computer.

By default, a new global dictionary is stored in your AppData folder, like all of your built-in dictionaries.

However, you can use the Spelling tab of the Options dialog (File > Options) to choose another location for your global dictionary. For example, you might be working with a team of writers and want to make sure you are all using the same spellings for certain terms. By choosing a network directory, your entire team can use the same global dictionary. See Choosing the Location for Global Dictionaries.