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I have a project where I find myself with the need of a variable spellcheck library.

I'll have blocks of text from which I must find any instance of potentially over a hundred words. I'll have alternate spellings (words) for these words and I'd like to make this process similar to a spellcheck.

I don't want to alter Word's dictionary because I still need it. But I'd be willing to install another dedicated word processor to do the same.

Does anyone have any advice for accomplishing this?

Thanks

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Check out Ispell. There are other tools for this but it's the first that came to mind.

Essentially you install it and it will automatically use spell-check in any text-field you're working in, whether it's a browser, IM, or office program. You can change the dictionary as you please to suite your needs.

PS: I believe you can maintain multiple dictionaries in office and simply switch back and forth, you might consider setting up a second "non default" dictionary and just enabling it when you need to do this task.

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