[silnewton]

this worked for me - my spell checker had stopped working in word 2007 and
when I checked in add ins - the en-|UK had been disabled!. My spell checker
is now working again. PS I had deleted and reinstalled office 2007 - but it
made no difference

"lillieammann" wrote:

My spell check suddenly quit working, and I followed all the advice in this
thread to no avail.

Someone mentioned (possibly in this thread or perhaps another as I've been
looking all over) that there might be a bad add-in. I was going to disable
add-ins one by one and see if spell check started working again.

I clicked on the Office button, went to Word Options, then Add-ins. In the
drop-down menu at the bottom of the screen for Manage ___ Add-ins, I noticed
a choice for Disabled Items. I clicked that ... and there was the solution to
my problem. enUS was listed as a disabled item because it caused a problem
the last time it was used. I enabled it, and spell check is back.

I have no idea how or when Word disabled the add-in and haven't had any
problems that I'm aware of before it was disabled.

Perhaps this will help someone else ...
--
Lillie Ammann, Writer and Editor


"Mike" wrote:

Did that, reinstalled, reapaired, regedit. green grammer lines sometimes
appear, custom dic set for 1, NO error msg, says spell check is complete even
with words like Yrurhewsd. I reinstalled word 2003 and Word 2003 spell
checker works fine.

"Mike" wrote:

I have the same problem. English US is selected, no squiggly lines a word
like "sdhdgd" is accepted as correct.

"Beth Melton" wrote:

If you don't have the Override key then you don't need the Registry fix. Did
you verify your proofing lanuage? If the proofing tools aren't installed for
your proofing language then spell check will not work - you won't see any
red wavy lines. Try clicking the Spelling and Grammar button on the Review
tab. If this is the case then the error message you encounter should provide
more insight to this issue.

Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for
assistance by email cannot be acknowledged.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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/

"laura" wrote in message
...
hi, i found your message very hopeful for me but then i got to the click +
next to override and that option doesnt exist in my list of things to
click
the +, is there any other way of fixing spell check for word 2007? i dont
get
the red lines, no mispelled words are recognised, i have checked
everything i
can think of to try and fix the problem but still found no solution.
thanx


"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