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Wrong spelling in dictionary

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I accidentally added a misspelled word to the dictionary. Is there anyway to remove the misspelled word?

I accidentally added a misspelled word to the dictionary. Is there anyway to remove the misspelled word?

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Open the Thunderbird profile folder as described in this help article https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profiles-where-thunderbird-stores-user-data Verify that TB is closed, search for the persdict.dat file in the profile folder, open it in a text editor and execute your correction(s).

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Open the Thunderbird profile folder as described in this help article https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profiles-where-thunderbird-stores-user-data Verify that TB is closed, search for the persdict.dat file in the profile folder, open it in a text editor and execute your correction(s).

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Thanks That worked. I could not find anything about this when I performed a search.

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