diff --git a/PROMS/VEPROMS User Interface/veproms.dct b/PROMS/VEPROMS User Interface/veproms.dct
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..43a1fb4f
Binary files /dev/null and b/PROMS/VEPROMS User Interface/veproms.dct differ
diff --git a/PROMS/Volian.Controls.Library/StepRTB.cs b/PROMS/Volian.Controls.Library/StepRTB.cs
index 8b2d395f..001930de 100644
--- a/PROMS/Volian.Controls.Library/StepRTB.cs
+++ b/PROMS/Volian.Controls.Library/StepRTB.cs
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 using System;
 using System.Collections.Generic;
 using System.ComponentModel;
-
+using System.IO;
 using System.Drawing;
 using System.Data;
 using System.Text;
@@ -2698,6 +2698,18 @@ namespace Volian.Controls.Library
 				{
 					_C1SpellChecker2 = new C1.Win.C1SpellChecker.C1SpellChecker();
 					_C1SpellChecker2.ContextMenuCreated += new C1.Win.C1SpellChecker.ContextMenuEventHandler(_C1SpellChecker2_ContextMenuCreated);
+					// The veproms.dct file is the main spell checker dictionary.
+					// We edited the C1 dictionary (C:\Program Files\ComponentOne\Dictionaries\C1Spell_en-US.dct) using ComponentOne's 
+					// dictionary editor (C:\Program Files\ComponentOne\Studio for WinForms\C1SpellChecker\C1DictionaryEditor.exe)
+					// and added the veproms.words list as another word list in the dictionary.  We saved the resulting file as veproms.dct.
+					string dictpath = string.Format(@"{0}\veproms.dct", Application.StartupPath);
+
+					// Only use the veproms.dct if it is found in the BIN folder. Otherwise, let it default to use the standard dictionary.
+					if (File.Exists(dictpath))
+						_C1SpellChecker2.MainDictionary.FileName = dictpath; // looks in the bin folder by default
+
+					// NOTE: By default, a "Custom.dct" file (UserDictionary) will be created in the BIN folder when a user adds words to the 
+					//       spell checker dictionary.  The words that the user adds are not placed in the Volian.dct file.
 					//_C1SpellChecker2.UserDictionary.FileName  = @"C:\Development\proms\VEPROMS User Interface\bin\Debug\MYDictionary.dct";
 				}
 				return StepRTB._C1SpellChecker2;