Yes allow us to add our own. No dictionary is going to have 500 pharmaceutical drug names and neither does a pc or Mac. **** I just want to add my own words. Has nothing to do with a tablet or pc. Just common sense. Write pad allows you to add words.......it is the app and it's poor. Apple another strike

Do you know how many drug companies and drug reps are using iPads. **** load! Novartis trains there whole company on them.

Found this. Doesn't get rid of the red line though. Only fixes the autocorrect.

http://iphonehelp.in/2010/06/23/how-...s4-dictionary/

Is there a dictionary app that can be used with pages that will allow edit or adding of words?

So your dictionary has no edit / add capability. So I am about to approve 200 iPads be purchased for pharma bio science training where pharma hired personnel will use the pages app but ever generic and brand drug name will be underlined in red because your pages dictionary can't EDIT OR ADD WORDS. PROPER NOUNS?

Are u kidding me? Is there an app dictionary that can be added to overuse the poorly designed pages dictionary? I as VP in this industry am shocked this feature was overlooked. Come on take on Microsoft and get at least a simple need corrected

There is a workaround! I, too, write stuff with lots of technical terms and got fed up of the underlining and autocorrect problem with Pages. It's not my idea, so I can't take the credit, but it works just fine.

This other person noted that the autocorrect feature uses - as well as the built-in dictionary - the iPad's Contact list because it would be annoying if it kept trying to autocorrect names of people you know.

So this person suggested that you simply put any technical terms into the Contacts list!

In other words, create 'spurious' entries in your Contacts list that contains all the technical terms that you're going to use. It works great!

Tim
Scotland

Add words to keyboard dictionary hack?

Seems like a pain in the ass either way.

Safari method doesn't seem to work for me.

Edit: Scratch all that. Try this:

http://iphonehelp.in/2010/06/23/how-...s4-dictionary/

Still a pain in the ass and apparently you still get the red line underneath the word even though it doesnt try and correct it.

A workaround suggested by another Forum member is to put specialist words as 'spurious' entries into the Contacts list. The iPad dictionary checks the contents of the Contacts list and doesn't prompt or try to autocorrect what it finds there. So this Forum member suggested simply entering your technical or other specialist terms as Contacts. You don't need to have too many of these, either, because each contact can contain multiple fields, all of which are checked. Some serious lateral thinking. I've tried it (I have a lot of technical stuff to write too) and it works just fine.

Tim
Scotland

There is a simple, if inelegant, workaround. Since the iPad checks the Contacts list when it's doing its spellcheck - so that names from your contacts are not autocorrected or flagged as spelling mistakes - a Forum member (not me) has devised a simple way of installing a 'user dictionary' of, say, technical or scientific or other specialist terms. Simply insert some 'spurious' contacts into your Contact list that contain, in one of the fields, a list of words that you want to 'include' in the user dictionary.

So, in my own field (digital communications and signal processing) there are lots of acroymns and I simply insert them as entries in the Contacts list. Works great. Not exactly as it should be (I agree 100% with you that this is a terrific oversight by Apple) but, as they say, 'necessity is the mother of invention'.

Tim
Scotland

"Are u kidding me"
Lol apple created the iPad to fall between smart phones and laptops.
Users are demanding far more of the initial device than they ever foresaw, which is really a testament to the inherent versatility of the device.
Due to it's limited storage, user dictionaries was an obvious space saving

Still as Tim points out there is a workable alternative.