Best to add them enmasse directly.
When you say logged in as admin, please clarify. There are two ways.
Remember, anything you change in spell check, ONLY affects that computer.
Silly, yes, but that's just the way it is.
We have to figure that we will always have a sub par spell check, but then again, few programs do. The large office suites, probably some others. I pay around $150 a year for medical dictionary in Stedman's which is awesome for Outlook and Word.
By the way, if you use either, I highly recommend Stedman's medical dictionary. You just run it as an install, and it does the rest. It costs more the first time, then you upgrade.
Let me know if you want to know how to do the spell check fixes enmass for all computers.