I keep getting an error message every time I open MS Word 2003: Custom dictionary in File Name is not available. I have checked my setup and everything is as it should be. The dictionary is there, it is enabled. I made changes to normal.dot a few days ago, but nothing that has to do with spellcheck. I only changed the tool bar, but since then I cannot use any custom dictionaries.

Microsoft support has two pages with possible answers on this, but only for
Word 97 and Word 2000, but they might help, they are;

WD97: Run-time Error '1280' Setting Custom Dictionary

And

WD2000: Run-Time Error '1280' Setting Custom Dictionary

Hope they help a little bit!