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# The Dictionary Dialog Box

<Note>
  This topic applies to FRE for Windows.
</Note>

This dialog box appears when editing user dictionary via the [Edit](/fine-reader/engine/api-reference/language-related-objects/dictionary/edit-method) method of the [Dictionary](/fine-reader/engine/api-reference/language-related-objects/dictionary) object in Windows.

<img src="https://mintcdn.com/abbyy/6udH-pkk8zkVafYH/images/fine-reader/engine/dictionay_dialog.gif?s=ec7c26ddd039c82c7a9e64d20e2e81ea" alt="Dictionay_dialog" width="338" height="279" data-path="images/fine-reader/engine/dictionay_dialog.gif" />

| Option                   | Option Description                                                                                                                                                                                            |
| ------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| The top dialog box field | Enter the word you want to add to the dictionary here.                                                                                                                                                        |
| Word list                | Displays all user dictionary words. Select the word you want to delete.                                                                                                                                       |
| Add (button)             | Adds the word you typed in the top line to the dictionary.                                                                                                                                                    |
| Delete (button)          | Deletes the selected word from the dictionary.                                                                                                                                                                |
| Import (button)          | Imports an already existing dictionary (for example, any text file in Windows ANSI- and Unicode-encoding (the only requirement is that words must be separated by spaces or other non-alphabetic characters). |
| Export (button)          | Exports your ABBYY FineReader user dictionary.                                                                                                                                                                |
| Close (button)           | Closes the dialog box.                                                                                                                                                                                        |

## See also

[Dictionary](/fine-reader/engine/api-reference/language-related-objects/dictionary)

[IDictionary::Edit](/fine-reader/engine/api-reference/language-related-objects/dictionary/edit-method)