If you mistakenly add a mis-spelt entry to your Publisher dictionary while running a spell check, it makes sense that you would like to then remove that bad spelling from the dictionary. If you dont, Publisher will think the wrong spelling is the right spelling from that point onwards.

In Microsoft Word, this is a simple (enough) process - click menu heading TOOLS > menu item OPTIONS > tab SPELLING & GRAMMAR > button CUSTOM DICTIONARIES > button MODIFY > then find your bad word in the list click it and button DELETE > buttons OK, OK, OK.

No such feature is available within Publisher. So it would appear you are stuck with the bad word forever. Good news is that programmers are inherently lazy, and when they slapped together Publisher, they decided to borrow the custom dictionary feature from Word, rather than build their own. This means if you need to modify an entry in the custom dictionary for Publisher, you'll need to do it via Word.

Try it out if you dont believe me. Make a text box in Publisher, type the word 'floqq' and press enter, presuming there is now a red squiggly line under that word - right click it and choose 'add to dictionary'. Now close Publisher, open Word, follow the steps above, reopen Publisher and type floqq again - notice the squiggle is back.

 

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