• Biology, medical, chemical, physics, computer science, agricultural, and engineering terms
• Scientific author names
• Journal titles and abbreviations
• Scientific names of organisms (genus & species)
• Restriction enzymes
• Drug Names
• Company names (scientific supply companies)

• PubMed^® (includes Medline^®)
• MeSH^® (Medical Subject Headings – US National Library of Medicine's (NLM) controlled vocabulary thesaurus)
• ChemIDplus^® (NLM's comprehensive database of chemicals and drug names)
• National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) Taxonomy database
• CSA Technology Research Database
  • CSA Engineering Research Database
  • CSA High Technology Research Database with Aerospace
  • CSA Materials Research Database with METADEX

Controls

• SDP Dictionaries list. This list shows the available SDP dictionaries. The type (words or abbreviations) and status (active/inactive, "[good]", "[new]", "[deleted]", "[invalid]", etc.) is listed to the right of each dictionary.

  Dictionary status/type definitions

  Label	Definitions
  [new]	Dictionary was newly added and will become active when the changes are applied.
  [good]	Dictionary is valid and active.
  [deleted]	Dictionary is marked to be deleted and will be deleted when the changes are applied.
  [invalid]	SDP was not able to use this dictionary because the file may be corrupted or in an unrecognized format.
  [unknown]	Dictionary is not active so its status is not defined.
  WORDS	Dictionary contains words.
  ABBRS	Dictionary contains abbreviations.

• Activate SDP dictionaries option. Check this option to activate all SDP dictionaries and uncheck to deactivate all SDP dictionaries.

• Set SDP dictionaries as default option. Check this option to activate SDP dictionaries for the spell checker in all Microsoft applications, Powerpoint, Excel, etc.

  Important

  If this option is changed, user needs to re-start (close and re-open) any open Office application for changes to take effect.

  Warning

  This may cause long pauses when adding new words to the Microsoft Word custom dictionary. Please see Long Pauses in Troubleshooting section.

  It is recommended that this option is not selected if you do not need the extended vocabulary in other Office applications.

• Office 2007 only: Remove deleted dictionaries from custom dictionaries list option. Check this option to force SDP to remove deleted custom dictionaries from the list.

• Total Words. This is the total number of words and abbreviations of all SDP dictionaries added to the Microsoft Office spell checker.

• Add Dictionary ("+") button. Adds new SDP dictionary. Click the '+' button or press INSERT key, select the dictionary to be added from the open dialog, and the new dictionary will be added to the list of active dictionaries. The [new] label will appear next to the dictionary and will be activated when the user clicks "OK".

• Activated. Select the dictionary from the list, check this option to activate individual SDP dictionaries. The SDP dictionary to be activated must first be selected (highlighted). Uncheck this option to deactivate the selected SDP dictionary. SDP dictionaries can also be activated/deactivated by selecting the dictionary and pressing the SPACE key or double clicking on it.

• Language. This menu allows the user to change the language setting for each SDP dictionary. English is the default setting for all SDP "WORDS" dictionaries. Please change the SDP "WORDS" dictionaries language settings to match your language settings in Microsoft Word or SDP terms will not be recognized. We highly recommend that only one language is set for each document. To do this, select all text in your document and select a language with the "Set Language" button in Word ( Tools > Language > Set Language... ).

• Issued. This is the date the SDP dictionary was last updated.

• Version. This is the version of the SDP dictionary currently installed on your computer.

• GUID. This is the Globally Unique Identifier or a unique number used to identify each SDP dictionary.

• Words. This is the total number of words or abbreviations in each SDP dictionary.

• Full Path label. This label displays the full path of the selected dictionary from the dictionaries list.

• Description label. This label displays a description the contents of each dictionary.

• Remove Dictionary ("-") button. Deletes SDP dictionary from the list. Select dictionary from the list and click "-" or the DELETE key. The [deleted] label will appear next to the dictionary and will be removed from the list when the user clicks "OK".

• The SDP toolbar is hidden. To resolve this, open Word, go to TOOLS > Customize > Toolbars, find SDP in the list and put a check in the box to make the SDP toolbar visible in Word.
• The SDP toolbar is absent. To resolve this, please proceed with the following:
  • Confirm that the 'SDPStartUp.dot' file was not deleted. It should be located in the 'C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Application Data\Microsoft\Word\STARTUP\' folder. Please check this.
  • Open Microsoft Word.
  • Go to Help > About Microsoft Office Word to open the 'About' dialog.
  • Click the 'Disabled Items' button to open the list of disabled items.
  • Find 'SDPStartUp' in the list, select it and click the ‘Enable’ button.
  • Close all dialogs.
  • Re-start Word, and the SDP Toolbar should be present.

• The first possible solution is to reduce the size of the SDP custom dictionaries by deactivating unnecessary dictionaries.

• If there are no unnecessary SDP dictionaries, then the SDP dictionaries need to be prevented from being the "default". To do this, open the SDP Options dialog, clear "Set SDP dictionaries as default" checkbox and click OK to apply the changes.

  NOTE: Only words from the default dictionaries will be available in other office applications (OutLook, Power Point, etc). Please make sure that this option is checked if you need the extended vocabulary in other Office applications.

  Tip

  How to determine the default dictionaries: Open Word, Office button > Word Options > Proofing > Custom Dictionaries button. The default dictionaries are marked with the "(default)" label. See Figure 1 as an example.

  Figure 1. Default dictionaries are marked by red arrows.

  

  
  

  If there are SDP dictionaries only (as shown in Figure 2 under the "English (U.S.)" hive), then click the "New..." button (marked by red arrow on the screenshot), specify the name of the new custom dictionary (it must be different than the existing dictionaries) and click OK.

  Figure 2. 

  

  
  After this, the new dictionary will be added, most likely under the "All Languages" hive. Make sure that the proper language is set, in our case "English (U.S.)". Set this on the "Dictionary language" combobox (see Figure 3 as an example, marked by blue arrow).

  Figure 3. 

  

  
  After selecting the new dictionary in the list, click the "Change Default" button (marked by red arrow). After this step, the new dictionary should be placed into "English (U.S.)" hive and marked as "(Default)" (marked by green arrow in Figure 4).

  Figure 4. 

  

  
  

  This procedure needs to be repeated for all hives that do not have a default, non-SDP dictionary.