After diving deep into Youtube I found out that there were not enough tutorials about how to install medical.
Spread the word if you find it useful. Utmost care has been taken to avoid any error at my end. However, if you find any inconsistency that has crept through, feel free to to rectify the mistakes in the future versions. We have had an elaborate discussion below on troubleshooting with various operating systems. Sieve through them until the end of this page if you want any specific help regarding your computer’s operating system.
I do update the spell checker whenever I have ample new words. Or to stay tuned for alerts about the future revisions of the spell checker. Update (July 16, 2014): Earlier I had put this free spell checker on my other blog, MT Herald.
Since I am closing down mtherald.com, I have moved this custom medical dictionary to my new site here. It’s absolutely free. No catches now or later. So you can go ahead and grab it.
I’m glad that I could help at least one person in need. Thank you for recognizing my hard work. Why it’s free? Because to help out people like you who begin from scratch, who cannot afford to spend a few hundred bucks for starting up.
Because I was like that years before and couldn’t find a freebie like this then. Because Internet is an ocean of freebies. Hope somebody else do not encash the hard work that I have put in it! I just wanted to write to let you know how VERY much I am enjoying using the Free Medical Spellchecker for MS Word I downloaded from your website. The download was easy to find and use, and the installation instructions, particularly with the helpful screen shots at each step of the way, made installing it a breeze, even for a “non-techie” like me! As you know, I have my own medical-transcription company.
I have been using your Free Medical Spellchecker daily for approximately two weeks now, and I have YET to find a medical word your dictionary did not cover – quite impressive, especially considering the volume and variety of medical transcription we do! In fact, I am so pleased with its efficiency and ease of use, I just forwarded it to be used by all medical transcriptionists in our other offices, as well! In closing, Raj, I thank you very much for your kind and generous offering of this Free Medical Spellchecker for MS Word for download, and I encourage everyone with a need for accuracy and efficiency in medical transcription to download and install it in their MS Word programs, too. Believe me, you’ll be glad you did! (-: Thanks again, Brenda Rutgers, Owner Rutgers Transcription Services. I wonder if this will help with installing the speller? Maybe some people wonder what it means to “open Word”?
That means just bring up any document you already have that was typed in Word, that’s all. (Which means go to My Documents and click on something that ends with “.doc.”) Then follow the steps to get to custom dictionaries. Now that you’ve done that, you want to copy it into custom dictionaries but what does it look like on your desktop? It looks like a paper file-folder. Click on that, click on Copy, then go to where you have custom dictionaries on your screen and click on Paste. So, copy-paste. That should do it!
Oh, I believe you also have to hit Save when done or it won’t stay there. Then close custom dictionaries and close that Word document.
You can check to see if you did it right by opening a new blank page in Word and typing some medical terms like Pfannenstiel or gastroesophageal. Finally, send a thank-you to Raj!
Isn’t he wonderful! Hi Raj, Certainly! I downloaded this.zip file, which is the link that you began with on the “Installation Instructions”. – Next, extract the file ‘Raj&Co-MedSpelChek.dic’ and copy it into the location where Microsoft keeps it’s ‘CUSTOM.DIC’. That path for me is (WinXP) C: Documents and Settings Administrator Application Data Microsoft UProof – Next, open MS Word 2007, and go into the MS Word Options area and select the left-menu item ‘Proofing’. – Next, click on the button that says ‘Custom Dictionaries’, and click the ‘Add’ right-menu item to add the dictionary to your office program.
– Next, click ‘OK’, and click ‘OK’ again, to get out of the MS Word Options section. – Next, close and reopen MS Word 2007 and give it a try. Works like a charm! You can also download the TXT version and simply edit the CUSTOM.DIC and add the words into that list. However, adding the new dictionary was a way to keep them organized.
Hope that helps and, Thank you – again! Hi Ashleigh, I am also running Windows 7 with MS Office 2010, and have installed the dictionary fine. The folder “AppData” will be hidden in your User folder. To show the hidden folder, go to the “Organize” menu on the top left. Choose “Folder & Search Options”. Go to the “View” tab at the top, and choose the button that says “Show hidden files, folders & drives”.
Apply the settings, and you should be able to see everything you need to. The location on my computer is: C: Users Hannah AppData Roaming Microsoft UProof Hope this helps! Thanks for providing this useful resource! It looks like some people here were confused about enabling the dictionary on mac. Here are the instructions: 1. Download as described in the post. Drag the Raj&Co-MedSpelChek.dic file to /Users//Library/Preferences/Microsoft/Office 2008/ (the is your computer username).
In Word, go to PreferencesSpelling and Grammar, and click on the “Dictionaries” button. Click “Add”, and add the Raj&Co-MedSpelChek.dic file to your set of custom dictionaries. For reference, i’m using microsoft 2008 on a macbook pro os 10.6. Thanks again!
Thank you so much for this fabulous medical dictionary. I didn’t think I could do it, but your directions were great! Now, I don’t have to worry if I spell a difficult medical term incorrectly. I double checked it with numerous medical words and it caught every one that I misspelled purposely.
This is absolutely wonderful! Again, many thanks for your efforts. I’ve been doing medical transcription for some years now, but one cannot know how to spell every word in every specialty without going crazy! Excellent job! Dear Raj, Thanks a lot for such a valuable information. You have solved my very big problem. Actually, just recently I bought a new system where I encountered this problem and was very worried about spellcheck and timely I got your solution and I am very thankful to you for this information and I heartily appreciate your generous helping nature.
Also, I will be happy if you address me a problem with Quick Look functioning. Actually dictionary gets installed properly but when I start searching medicines, it shows only loading but information gets loaded only when I close it and open it again. Please let me know if you have any solution for this. Thanks a lot.
Thank you so much for this. I did a search (like yourself initially) for a free medical dictionary and found this wonderful site.
I don’t do medical transcription at all but do carry out interview transcription for clients who have interviewed consultants etc or patients and having this in my tools for working with these clients is going to be great. No more searching on Google for correct spellings and then manually adding them to the spellchecker. I’m from the UK but guess the medical terminology is pretty universal (I hope). Hi Debbie It is 11 long years since I used WordPerfect. I have forgotten everything about WordPerfect.
However, I think it should work fine with WordPerfect also. You may need to rename our spellchecker file that ends with.dic to.UWL for working with WordPerfect. For WordPerfect 8, it should reside in My Documents Corel User Files folder on the drive where WP is installed.
In WordPerfect 9, typically, it is stored in Program Files Corel Shared Writing Tools 9.0 Corel User Files. Sometimes it is stored in My Documents Corel User Files. Find out where the custom dictionary resides in your case and do accordingly.
Find out more information on this here:? Try it yourself and tell us all here on how you did it, so that it could help somebody else like you. Feel free to revert if I can be of any further help. This works well for Mac as well, presently using microsoft word 2011 here are the steps: The Custom Dictionaries dialog box in Word lists the available custom dictionaries the application can use to check spelling. If the dictionary that you want to use — for example, one that you purchased from a third-party company — is installed on your computer but not listed in the Dictionary list box, you can add it.
Make sure that a document is open. If no document is open, the next step won’t work. On the Word menu, click Preferences. Under Authoring and Proofing Tools, click Spelling and Grammar.
Under Spelling, click Dictionaries. OK, I’m on a Mac running MS Office 2011 and I CANNOT get this thing to work. I followed the steps Vikash has, just above, after placing the file in the following folder on my hard drive (per one of the above suggestions) Raj&Co-MedSpelChek.dic file to /Users//Library/Preferences/Microsoft/Office 2011 (the is my user name on my computer). The file is in there, everything seems fine, but when I go through the steps above, the file is greyed out. The original.dic file is in there for me to choose, but not this new one. Why is it still greyed out? Dear Raj: No words are enough to convey my thanks for your yeoman service and help to the poorly paid and exploited transcriptionists who all are trying to work from home.
Getting a spellchecker, which is indispensable in this profession, is pretty costly and definitely pinches the pocket. Also, I read your thought provoking analysis regarding this industry, which will definitely be an eye-opener to all who are working in this industry and those (very few) who now want to join this industry; only die-hard optimist can deny with your writings. Thanking you once again. Sincerely, Manoj.
Thank you so much for the wonderful spellchecker you developed. I have used it for several years with no problems and have so appreciated this wonderful program. However, I recently purchased Word 2013 and I’m having trouble getting the spellchecker to work with it.
Is it something I’m doing wrong? I’ve never had trouble with the other versions of Word that I’ve used. I’ve always followed your instructions and they were spot on. If you have any tips, I would be so thankful.
Thanks again for a wonderful program. Raj, it was the fault of the operator, me. I kept trying to get it to work, kept undoing and redoing. Finally, I opened the.dic to see if I could use the word list for reference, worst case scenario. When I opened the file in notepad, it was empty. I checked the file on my old computer and when it was opened in notepad, there were a list of words. That got me thinking.
So, I deleted every file that I could find, re-downloaded the zip file, unzipped it, and then opened the.dic file again. The list of words came up and I knew I hadn’t messed this file up with all the copy and pasting or whatever I did wrong. Then I followed the instructions you gave me. I also shut down Word after I finished and reopened it, and VIOLA! It was there waiting for me. I’m one happy camper now. I feel a little ignorant, but I did get it to work.
Thank you for all your help. I really appreciate it so much!!!
So sad to hear the twist arm tactics of Google that resulted in closure of MT Herald. Google made its name and fame on the basis of the very websites that it has discarded. Now this s.o.b. Is out to make fame in my India with their Android One mobile devices. My sympathies with you for the trouble that you are going through to keep your help for mankind afloat through other servers.
Coming back to this topic, while searching the Net for a British English Dictionary I chanced upon a website: that has both, US English and UK English custom dictionaries of over 600,000 entries each including Medical Terms, but does not have drug names. It has been updated as of Jan 03, 2014.
It may come in hand if you plan a next update of MTH-MedSpelChek. I now have a separate folder for British English at my 4shared:. Kind regards Raj.
Hi Raj, Over the weekend I took part in the NHS Hack Day May 2016 Hackathon. My team focused on helping clinicians in the UK type faster and more accurately through medical spell checking. We started out thinking we would need to create a dictionary.
Then we came across your excellent list! So, we decided we would make it as easy as possible to install the list across the applications that clinicians in the UK use. After a busy weekend, we have created: It’s a one stop shop for helping clinicians install your dictionary. We would love to get your thoughts.
How can we make it better? What applications are we missing? How could the experience be easier? It would also be great to hear from other visitors to this site – if there’s anything we can do to make the installation easier, get in touch through the website. Thanks so much for sharing your dictionary and licensing it under GPL so other people can built upon it. Best wishes, Calum.
This has been reblogged from with permission. Do you love the built-in dictionary feature included OS X — but hate the fact that it doesn’t have a medical dictionary? Well, I’ve got news for you!
I have a free medical dictionary plug-in for you to use with the dictionary application on OS X. Just download the following file and follow these instructions:. Save “meddic.dmg” to your computer. Open the file “meddic.dmg”. Copy the file “Medical Dictionary.dictionary” to your desktop. Open “Finder” and navigate to “/Library/Dictionaries/”.
Drag and drop the file “Medical Dictionary.dictionary” from your desktop to your “Finder” window as shown in the picture below. Now you’re all done! Just open the “Dictionary” application to confirm you have installed it properly — it should look like this: Posted in.