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MS Office Forum / Word / Word Errors / July 2008Spell Check Does not work
Recently my spell check stopped working. I get a message that says "spellcheck is complete" when I perform one, but it does not do anything really. In fact, word doesn't even highlight errors on new docs. Weird thing is it works if I use word to edit emails in outlook, or if i were to pull up an older .doc file or use one that someone has sent to me. Just does not work for new docs. Did everything Microsoft support site suggested (custom.doc replaced, etc) but to no avail. HELP!!! cheers, sr2 Somehow, your normal template has set to No Proofing. Take a look in Tools, Language, Set Language and clear the check box for no proofing.  SignatureTerry Farrell - MS Word MVP > Recently my spell check stopped working. I get a message that says > "spellcheck is complete" when I perform one, but it does not do anything [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > cheers, sr2 Terry, it worked. Thanx a zillion. sr2 > Somehow, your normal template has set to No Proofing. Take a look in Tools, > Language, Set Language and clear the check box for no proofing. [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > > > > cheers, sr2 I have checked every language setting, new normal.dot, all proofing settings, including your guidance here, but I cannot get spelling to work again. Any advice is appreciated! Word 2007 on XP SP2 Thanks, Dan > Somehow, your normal template has set to No Proofing. Take a look in > Tools, Language, Set Language and clear the check box for no proofing. [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] >> >> cheers, sr2 this is for my daughter's computer, her spellcheck underlines everything so i am going to walk her through your suggestion. get back to you if it works. thanks Frances! > Somehow, your normal template has set to No Proofing. Take a look in Tools, > Language, Set Language and clear the check box for no proofing. [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > > > > cheers, sr2 PLEASE HELP - where is Tools - Language, Set Language My spell check doesn't work at all. > Somehow, your normal template has set to No Proofing. Take a look in Tools, > Language, Set Language and clear the check box for no proofing. [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > > > > cheers, sr2 I burned a support incident to resolve this. There is not yet a public KB. Spell Check was not working in any office 2007 app. I installed 2007 over Office 2003 in case that matters. Resolution: run "Regedit" Traverse through the tree HKEY_CURRENT_USER Software Microsoft Shared Tools Proofing Tools 1.0 Override en-US (english, US in my case, your language may vary) There are three entries. (default) dll, and lex Rename or delete DLL and LEX (rightclick, rename) to something like "oldDLL" Any document or file that I had saved during this problem, I had to open the doc, click the round start button in the app, then click the "Word Options" button on the bottom of the dialog box, then Proofing, then Check Document button, yes. The red squigglies will appear. Good luck! Took me 3 hours on a PSS call to resolve this. I hope I save someone else the trouble. > Recently my spell check stopped working. I get a message that says > "spellcheck is complete" when I perform one, but it does not do anything [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > cheers, sr2 Dan Thanks for that information. Terry >I burned a support incident to resolve this. There is not yet a public KB. >Spell Check was not working in any office 2007 app. I installed 2007 over [quoted text clipped - 38 lines] >> >> cheers, sr2 Hi - I tried your suggestion but when I got to 1.0 in the registry I didn't find a folder named Override and therefore no mention of en-US and no three entries. Any suggestions? Cynthia > I burned a support incident to resolve this. There is not yet a public KB. > Spell Check was not working in any office 2007 app. I installed 2007 over [quoted text clipped - 35 lines] > > > > cheers, sr2 Cynthiavee: I had the same problem as you ... I found the following excerpt on the internet on www.kevindevin.com, and believe it or not it worked. Just go into the registry tree as described below, and delete the last registry item listed in the entry below ("Word"). When you reopen Word, you can type gibberish and Word picks it up. Don't know how long the fix will last, but just glad the spell check is back! From the KevinDevin website: "She had an interesting problem where spell check did not work at all in Word. It worked fine in all the other office apps. Just not word. It turns out it was a registry setting somehow. I figured it out by making another user account and found spell check worked in word under that user. After some poking around I found Microsoft KB Article 822005. Basically I just had to delete the registry key KEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Word. Then I reopened Word and let it recreate the key and subkeys. This fixed the issue and Spell Check started working." > Hi - I tried your suggestion but when I got to 1.0 in the registry I didn't > find a folder named Override and therefore no mention of en-US and no three [quoted text clipped - 39 lines] > > > > > > cheers, sr2 Your fix continues to help. We have had this failure in Word with Vista (blasted thing!) and are now back checkin' spellin'! Thanks. > Cynthiavee: > [quoted text clipped - 57 lines] > > > > > > > > cheers, sr2 This worked for me, too. Thanks! > Cynthiavee: > [quoted text clipped - 57 lines] > > > > > > > > cheers, sr2 Cool Dude, thanks for posting, saved me a support call. spell-check just quit one-day, no reason. so this fixed it (I had even ripped out office once and reinstalled before I came across your post), SO again thanks for sharing - beats all the wait for SP1 answers ;-) -- Jan > I burned a support incident to resolve this. There is not yet a public KB. > Spell Check was not working in any office 2007 app. I installed 2007 over [quoted text clipped - 35 lines] > > > > cheers, sr2 Dan~ You rock the party that rocks the pinata! My wife has been upset about no spell check for awhile and I couldn't figure out the problem after multiple attempts. While I'm sorry you have to go through the pain of paying for the answer, I certainly appreciate your sharing it. Thanks a ton! -Kris > I burned a support incident to resolve this. There is not yet a public KB. > Spell Check was not working in any office 2007 app. I installed 2007 over [quoted text clipped - 35 lines] > > > > cheers, sr2 I could follow the tree only until the "1.0" folder. I could not find "override". Are you sure you typed the folders right? maybe it's just my machine... i'm using 2007 on Vista > I burned a support incident to resolve this. There is not yet a public KB. > Spell Check was not working in any office 2007 app. I installed 2007 over [quoted text clipped - 35 lines] > > > > cheers, sr2 |
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