How to Remove a Word in the Personal Dictionary of Adobe Dreamweaver

Dreamweaver, Adobe's Web development application, allows you to add words to a custom spell check dictionary. This allows you to prevent common industry terms or acronyms you use from being flagged during a spell check. If you accidentally add a term, or want to change it later, though, tread carefully. Dreamweaver CS5 and CS5.5 do not provide a way of deleting entries in the personal dictionary. In the CS4 version, you can modify the dictionary be editing a text file.

Instructions

1. Locate the "Personal Dictionary MX.tlx" file on your computer. You can search hidden files and folders to find this file, or browse to the directory. In Windows Vista and Windows 7, it should be on the root drive in the users\[your login]\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Dreamweaver CS4\Common folder. In Windows XP, look in the root drive in the Documents and Settings\[your login]\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Dreamweaver CS4\Common folder. For Mac OS X, the path is Macintosh HD:Users:[your login]:Library:Application Support:Adobe:Dreamweaver CS4:Common.

2. Open the "Personal Dictionary MX.tlx" file using Dreamweaver.

3. Delete the entire line containing the entry you want to remove. Be sure to delete the space and letter "i" following the entry as well.

4. Delete the blank line that was under your entry. Your remaining file should have each entry separated by one blank line.

5. Save the file.

Tips & Warnings

• Not all versions of Dreamweaver support removal of entries from the custom dictionary.

References

• Adobe: Spell Check a Document
• Adobe: Spell Check a Web Page