EditExcludeLists.dotx Release Notes

Version 1.3 — 2024-09-27

'EditExcludeLists – Add-in to edit Word’s exclude lists
'Author: Christopher Rath < >
'Date: 2024-09-27
'Version: 1.3
'Archived at: https://www.rath.ca/Misc/VBA/
'Copyright © 2024 Christopher Rath
'Distributed under the GNU Lesser General Public License v2.1
'   (see the LGPL_License VBA module for the license text)
'Warranty: None, see the license.

Download Link

EditExcludeLists_v1.3.zip

Installation Instructions

To manually install this add-in into your copy of MS Word:

1. Download the the add-in (the ZIP archive).
2. Open a File Explorer window and paste this string into the address bar:
   %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Word\STARTUP
3. Copy the EditExcludeLists v1.3.dotx file out of the ZIP archive and into the STARTUP folder you opened in step 2.
4. Close all open MS Word documents and exit the program (that is, choose FileàExit in all documents and MS Word windows).
5. Start MS Word (that is, open a document).

To automatically install this add-in into your copy of MS Word:

1. Download the the add-in (the ZIP archive).
2. Close all MS Word documents.
3. Extract the install.bat and EditExcludeLists v1.3.dotx files into your Downloads folder.
4. Double-click on install.bat

Usage

Once the EditExcludeLists template is installed, a new button will appear on the Review tab of the ribbon:
 

When you press this button, you will be presented with the list of languages the add-in found on your computer, for which there are exclude dictionaries. 
 

Choose the languages you want to edit in this session, and press [Next].

The words from those language files will be consolidated into a single list and presented for you to edit.

 

Press [Save] to write the updated list to the language lists you selected.

Release History

v1.0 [2024-09-23] — Initial release.

v1.1 [2024-09-24] — Speed-up execution time by moving the LCID to data as code; instead of loading from the template’s embedded table. Added to the language selection panel the LCID prefix that is embedded in the exclude list filename (this is because there are many languages for which the LCID is ‘1000’, and the user will need a clue as to the intended language).

v1.2 [2024-09-26] — Add the ability to select/unselect languages in groups (for example, all English variants in a single click) and allow the user to save the selected language list between sessions.

v1.3 [2024-09-27] — Correct bug where add-in didn’t handle an empty UProof folder.