Dealing with Word spell check in technical documents?

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Published on 2009-10-16T12:41:09Z Indexed on 2010/04/13 7:43 UTC
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I have waste millions of hours clicking the Ignore Once button in Word, while trying to spell check a document related to development. Be that something light on terms like a proposal or something worse like technical specs.

I'm beginning to think that this is a huge waste and someone may have developed a dictionary for Word with common development terms that I could add and no longer have this problem.

Does such a dictionary exist or is there some other tricks to use to improve this process?

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