[Toxaris]

Originally Posted by BetterRed

Sounds good, but I'm a little confused This is how I envisage it working for me :

I would first use the Word dictionaries/engine via your Spell Checker UI, which is what it does now - yes? Then I'd like to switch to the hunspell dictionaries/engine via your Spell Checker UI for a second opinion. And when I switch dictionaries/engine I am expecting I'll have to restart Word.

Almost right. You can change from the Word spelling engine to the Hunspell spelling engine via the settings. No restart of Word required. You cannot use the Hunspell spelling engine with the Spelling Procedure of Word itself, only with my Spelling Procedure.

Originally Posted by BetterRed

Regarding the 'user dictionaries'. Whilst I think its a cool idea to share them between Word and Hunspell, I don't want to be locked into doing that. Nor do I want to locked into having them in fixed locations. I don't keep my Word 'user dictionaries' in the default location %appdata%\Microsoft\UProof, they're in a subdirectory of my D:\BabbleOn folder. I don't want to change that.

Of course you make things difficult! You don't need to have them in fixed locations. That being said, the Hunspell user dictionaries are expected in %appdata%\Toxaris\Userdic. The location of the user dictionaries in Word are retrieved from Word itself. The exclusion dictionary in Word is expected in the %appdata%\Microsoft\UProof with the default naming.