Help and support

Lexyron recognises terms and abbreviations from your own dictionaries while you write in Microsoft Word, inserts their definitions as footnotes and builds a glossary at the end of the document. Everything runs on your computer.

Questions or problems: support@lexyron.com. We reply within two working days.

Getting started

1. Open Lexyron: Home tab, then Lexyron.
2. On the Dictionaries tab click Import dictionary… and choose an Excel (.xlsx), CSV, JSON or ZIP file. No dictionary yet? Download the Excel template or a sample below.
3. On the Terms tab click Check document. Terms found in your dictionaries are underlined or highlighted.
4. Click a marked word. Its definitions appear in the pane. Click Add footnote to insert the definition as a footnote, or Glossary only to include the term in the glossary without a footnote.
5. Click Insert / update glossary to add an alphabetical list of terms at the end of the document. Click it again later to update it in place.

If the import button does not open a window

Some Word versions block the file window in the add-in pane. Open Import button does not open a window? under the button and click Open import window. A separate window opens where you can choose or drag the file. Once this works, the Import dictionary… button opens that window automatically. You can also drag the file onto the pane, or copy the table in Excel and use Paste from Excel.

Sample dictionaries

Download a sample, then import it with Import dictionary…:

• EU law terms (Excel)
• IT terms (Excel)
• Finance terms (Excel)
• Finance terms, password-protected ZIP (password: demo123)
• Sample Word document to try them on

Dictionary format

One row per term in the sheet Terms:

• ID: unique code, optional (generated if empty). Keep IDs unchanged when you update a dictionary, so documents still recognise terms you already inserted.
• Term: required.
• Abbreviation: optional, matched exactly, also as “GDPR’s”. Terms written entirely in capitals are matched case-sensitively.
• Definition: inserted in footnotes and the glossary.
• Forms: other forms or synonyms separated by semicolons.
• Category, Source: optional.

The sheet Info holds the dictionary name, ID, version, author and language code. For English (en) and Lithuanian (lt) Lexyron also recognises word forms automatically. Dictionaries in other languages work with exact matches and the Forms column.

Footnote template

Settings, then Footnote. Default: {term}[ ({abbr})] – {definition}. Fields: {term}, {abbr}, {definition}, {source}, {category}, {dictionary}. Text in square brackets is shown only when its fields are not empty.

Requirements

• Word for Windows or Mac (Microsoft 365, Word 2021 or later) or Word on the web.
• Footnotes need Word API 1.5. Spell-checker-style underlining needs Word API 1.7 (Microsoft 365); otherwise terms are highlighted. Settings, then About, shows what your Word supports.

Frequently asked questions

Where are my dictionaries stored?

Only on your computer, in the add-in’s local storage. They are never uploaded. Keep your Excel files as backups.

“Export to Excel” does nothing

Some Word versions block downloads from add-ins. Use Copy table and paste into Excel.

Does Lexyron include dictionaries?

No. You use your own dictionaries or ones you obtain from their publishers.