I've looked through AutoFormat, Tools and Options but
can't find where I can set a preference for two spaces
between sentences instead of one.

I know a 6th grade public school teacher who would like
to try to use MS Word Spell/Grammer checker as a teaching
tool.
Her idea is that each time the kids "spell check" a

My PC hard drive crashed recently, and I had to reinstall
all my software.  Since doing this, whenever I use Word
2003 (with Windows XP Home), the spelling checker ignores
words with American spelling, even though I've selected

"Check grammar as you type" works fine, but when I press F7 for a fina
check of spelling and grammar, only the spelling is checked.
I never see the check-is-complete message or readibility stats (whic
is enabled).

Please could you tell me where to save the Exclusion Dictionary if I am
using Windows XP and Word 2000?
Thanks,
David Wheeler

I'm British, but most documents I write are in French, which  has accents
(those wierd things on top of letters that result in very variable ascii
codes and the unusable Unicode).
Like most other  English speakers (and some French colleagues...) my errors

I work at a school and am installing Microsoft Office 2003
to student and faculty computers this summer. I need to
find out how to remove the translation options from the
student computers, and keep the US Dictionary only on the

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Please save yourself some time by reading it before posting to the
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Word cannot open the spelling file
c:\ProgramFiles\CommonFiles\MicrosoftSharet\Proof\MSsp3en.l
ex for english (Ireland)
Sometimes word can check the spellings using

When attempting to run SpellCheck within Word2000, receive
the message stating "Word can not find grammer file msgr??
32.dll for ."
and then message stating Word can not find grammer file

Until recently I was working with the US English version of MS Office 2000
and MS Proofing Tools (Version 2002) to handle some other languages.
Everything worked well.
Now I am using MS Office 2003...

Im running Windows2000 and have office 97 installed.  The
pc was just built and now the Thesaurus is missing!

Currently, all our MS Word is using English (America) as
default.  Since we're an Australia company, we would like
to set the default language to English (Australia).
Stopping short of visting every PC and changing the

I am upgrading my computer and changing hard drives.
installed my old harddrive with everything still on it
(drive E)then installed two new HDs.
I have about 5,000 (no kidding) "auto-corrects" (i'm a

I can't reinstall the Spanish dictionary in my computer
because the hard disk drive doesn't work. I was wondering
if there is another way to install the Spanish spell
check.  Thanks, Diane