9.3 - Adding words to spell checker / moving words from one ignore list to another
Autor wątku: Ártemis López
Ártemis López
Ártemis López
Hiszpania
Local time: 15:21
hiszpański > angielski
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Jun 12, 2021

I see this was discussed over a decade (whew!) ago, but I'm hoping... Something has improved between then and now?

I need a straightforward way to either add words separately to the dictionary (or an ignore list that works as the dictionary) and to a project-specific ignore list or to, once added to one list, quickly move them to a d
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I see this was discussed over a decade (whew!) ago, but I'm hoping... Something has improved between then and now?

I need a straightforward way to either add words separately to the dictionary (or an ignore list that works as the dictionary) and to a project-specific ignore list or to, once added to one list, quickly move them to a different list.

The only ways I've found so far are (1) to manually delete the terms from one list and manually write them back into another—and both lists can't be open simultaneously, so I'd have to add the terms to a list on notepad or similar in order to not forget terms along the way or (2) to keep going into the ignore lists menu and changing the "in the current project, add new words to..." setting every few words. Both of these are unsustainable, since the client-specific words would be wrong in pretty much any other assignment.

Does anyone have a better way than what I'm currently doing?
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Tomás Cano Binder, BA, CT
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Hiszpania
Local time: 15:21
Członek ProZ.com
od 2005

angielski > hiszpański
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How about tweaking the actual ignore list file? Jun 13, 2021

If you look for a folder called "IgnoreLists" in the disk you use as the location for memoQ's resources, you will find that it contains a file for each of the ignore lists you use.

For instance, you can find ger-DE#Default.mqres for a German Ignore list. If you open one of these files with an editor like Notepad++, you can see something like this:
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You should be able to copy the lines and enter your desired ignore words. If your list is really long, you might want to use MS Word to add the inicial part with the date/time, etc. by Find/Replace... (just ask me in case of doubt).

Disclaimer: I have not tried this myself, so just let us know here if it works! I hope it does.


 
Ártemis López
Ártemis López
Hiszpania
Local time: 15:21
hiszpański > angielski
+ ...
NOWY TEMAT
It works! Jun 13, 2021

This works, thank you! Mine oddly doesn't have timestamps, so it's even easier to deal with. I tried shuffling lines around and adding/removing lines, and I had no issue. I do recommend everyone back up their ignore lists before messing with them just in case, though! You can edit them directly on Notepad or with a source code editor like Notepad++ or SublimeText.



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This works, thank you! Mine oddly doesn't have timestamps, so it's even easier to deal with. I tried shuffling lines around and adding/removing lines, and I had no issue. I do recommend everyone back up their ignore lists before messing with them just in case, though! You can edit them directly on Notepad or with a source code editor like Notepad++ or SublimeText.



For the readers of the future: my IgnoreLists is in ProgramData>MemoQ>Resources>Local, you'll probably find it there too
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Tomás Cano Binder, BA, CT
Tomás Cano Binder, BA, CT  Identity Verified
Hiszpania
Local time: 15:21
Członek ProZ.com
od 2005

angielski > hiszpański
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Great! Jun 13, 2021

Ártemis López wrote:
This works, thank you! Mine oddly doesn't have timestamps, so it's even easier to deal with.

The file I made a capture from had entries from 2013, so it is possible that they have removed this rather useless information in more recent versions.

I am glad this did the trick!

BTW: I rarely use spellchecking in memoQ since I definitely want both spellchecking and grammar and always use MS Word for that (by exporting a bilingual RTF version of the fully finished file(s) and spellchecking that).


 
Stepan Konev
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Rosja
Local time: 16:21
angielski > rosyjski
A minor addition Jun 13, 2021

There is a button "Export to Word"* that exports your ignore list to an MS Word compatible *.dic file (path: C:\Users\[USERNAME]\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\UProof) with no stamps at all. You can also edit it and then import back to memoQ.

*Not MS Word docx file but a dic file that can be used with MS Word.


 


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9.3 - Adding words to spell checker / moving words from one ignore list to another






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