I'm glad to hear you have spell check working again. :-)
I'm not sure if reinstalling it would work since more than likely it was
created for previous versions of Word and the location for custom
dictionaries changed in Word 2007. Nor am I familiar with Stedman's medical
dictionary, but more than likely it uses a custom dictionary file, it
usually has a .dic extension. Can you find such a file? If so, click the
Microsoft Office Button, click Word Options, and then click Proofing. Click
the Custom Dictionaries button, click Add, and then navigate to the location
of the dictionary.
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Microsoft Office MVP
Coauthor of Word 2007 Inside Out:
http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/boo...x#AboutTheBook
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"Kristin" wrote in message
...
That worked (the regedit, not the orange flashing). Wendy says thank you,
thank you.
The only remaining question is that we had installed a custom medical
dictionary (Stedman's) overlapping and it is not working. Can we just
reinstall it over what we've just done?
Thanks so much for your help (Wendy has been floundering since it broke!).
"Beth Melton" wrote:
Does spell check work at all? If you press F7 to start Spell check does
it
work? If so then is the Microsoft Office Button in the upper left corner
flashing orange? If so click the button and then click back in the
document.
There's a minor bug in the check spelling as you type feature, if you
don't
click the Microsoft Office Button it doesn't function. (If I hadn't had
the
opportunity to experience this for myself I wouldn't believe it. grin)
If spell check does not work at all, see if the following corrects the
issue:
- Exit all Office applicaitons
- Go to Start/Run
- Type: regedit and click OK
- In the Registry, click the plus (+) next to HKEY_CURRENT_USER
- Click the plus (+) next to Software
- Do the same for the following, (click the + next to) Microsoft, Shared
Tools, Proofing Tools, 1.0, and Override
- Cliik en-US (to select the key)
- From the File menu, click Export. Provide any file name and location
for
the key to make a backup copy of it (You can skip this step if you want
since this key is self-repairing - a new one will be generated
automatically)
- From the Edit menu, click Delete
- Exit the Registry and see if your spell check works
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Beth Melton
Microsoft Office MVP
Coauthor of Word 2007 Inside Out:
http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/boo...x#AboutTheBook
Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word
TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/
MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/
"Kristin" wrote in message
...
My colleague has the same problem. The words don't show with a
squiggly
red
line that they are misspelled, though they clearly are. Language is
English.
We tried changing to French (where the squiggly lines do show up
because
the
words aren't in French) and then back to English. We force a respell
and
it
still doesn't catch them. The box to "Not check these words" is not
checked.
Any ideas?
"Dee" wrote:
Cindy,
Tried all your suggestions below before I actually read your last
post.
Langauge is English and bottom two check boxes are indeed cleared
(always
have been). This seems more insidious than just Word 2007 since I
can't
get
PowerPoint 2007 to spell check either. I think I may post on the
Office
discussion group as well. Is there a bug in your opinion?
--
-Dee
"Cindy M." wrote:
Hi ?B?RGVl?=,
Well, I did find out the status bar (where and what it is), but
"Language" is
checked but no indication of what language is displayed.
Turn Language off and on, watching in the Status bar to see what
disappears/reappears. What do you see on that thing?
If you click it, the Set Language dialog box should appear. The
language of the
selected text should be highlighted. What is it?
Are either of the two checkboxes at the bottom activated? Which
one(s)?
Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17
2005)
http://www.word.mvps.org
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