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How to Edit Your IncrediMail User Dictionary

By Heinz Tschabitscher, About.com

Does the IncrediMail spell checker know your name or your city's?

Fortunately, it's easy to add new words to your personal user dictionary so the spell checker stops bothering you about using them in emails. What, though, if you have added a misspelled word — and now would like to get back alerts about it?

Edit Your IncrediMail User Dictionary

To remove words you have added to IncrediMail's spell checker or edit them:

  • Open your IncrediMail store folder in Windows Explorer.
  • Make sure IncrediMail is shut down.
  • Open the Identities folder, then your identity's folder and finally the lex folder in your IncrediMail data directory.
  • Launch Notepad (or your favorite text editor).
  • Drag and drop the private.tlx onto Notepad.
  • Look for the word you want to delete or edit.
  • To remove a entry, delete the entire line on which you find the word.
  • To edit an entry, edit the word in place.
  • Close Notepad saving private.tlx.
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