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How to “remove” a word from Word's main spelling dictionary

Or how to make a word that Word thinks is correctly spelt show as a spelling error

Article contributed by Suzanne S. Barnhill

For an updated version of this article, see http://wordfaqs.ssbarnhill.com/ExcludeWordFromDic.htm.