Word: UK English. Can it be this hard?

[Keef]

Sounds about right.

I have a folder called C:\Users\Keith\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Proof which contains one file, called CUSTOM.DIC dated 1/3/2011.

Then there's D:\Winword\PROOF which contains a CUSTOM.DIC dated 15/5/2013.

NORMAL.DOT is in D:\Winword\Templates (that's where I told it to put it, so it's behaving itself).

Excel buries its settings in C:\Users\Keith\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Excel\XLSTART\PERSO NAL.XLS but since that has been well behaved (compared with Word) I've never bothered to try to move it.

I think later versions of MS Office (of course) put the files in completely different locations. it would be far too bloomin' obvious to leave them in the same place, after all!