I am working with the English version of XP and Word 2003. My Dutch spell
check does not work. I installed Dutch as my default language, I unchecked
the box "detect language automatically" in the language dialogue box, and
when I check my MS office language settings, it appears that I have a licence
for MS Office Proofing Tools including 40-odd languages including Dutch.
But still, when I spell check my document, a message appears that the spell
check is complete when it is not the case, because my text is full of
mistakes...
What am I doing wrong??!!

Open the Word document where this problem occurs. Press Ctrl+A
to select all of the text, click on Tools | Language | Set
Language | choose your language | uncheck the "Detect language
automatically" and "Do not check spelling or grammar" boxes |
Default | OK, and press F7 to rerun spellcheck. If you are
prompted to save changes to your Normal.dot global template, say yes.

Ingeborg wrote:
I am working with the English version of XP and Word 2003. My Dutch spell
check does not work. I installed Dutch as my default language, I unchecked
the box "detect language automatically" in the language dialogue box, and
when I check my MS office language settings, it appears that I have a licence
for MS Office Proofing Tools including 40-odd languages including Dutch.
But still, when I spell check my document, a message appears that the spell
check is complete when it is not the case, because my text is full of
mistakes...
What am I doing wrong??!!

Sorry Garfield,

that does not help. My Word is still convinced that the spell check is
complete, after doing nothing at all....
I think the problem is due to the fact that I have an English version (in
which only French, spanish & english spell checks are available). I was
hoping that I could avoid buying MS Proofing tools, but I think that's the
only solution.

But thank you anyway!

"garfield-n-odie [MVP]" wrote:

Open the Word document where this problem occurs. Press Ctrl+A
to select all of the text, click on Tools | Language | Set
Language | choose your language | uncheck the "Detect language
automatically" and "Do not check spelling or grammar" boxes |
Default | OK, and press F7 to rerun spellcheck. If you are
prompted to save changes to your Normal.dot global template, say yes.

Ingeborg wrote:
I am working with the English version of XP and Word 2003. My Dutch spell
check does not work. I installed Dutch as my default language, I unchecked
the box "detect language automatically" in the language dialogue box, and
when I check my MS office language settings, it appears that I have a licence
for MS Office Proofing Tools including 40-odd languages including Dutch.
But still, when I spell check my document, a message appears that the spell
check is complete when it is not the case, because my text is full of
mistakes...
What am I doing wrong??!!

Obviously you need the dictionaries for the spell check to work. Your first
post suggested that you had the proofing tools, your last suggests you
haven't.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


Ingeborg wrote:
Sorry Garfield,

that does not help. My Word is still convinced that the spell check is
complete, after doing nothing at all....
I think the problem is due to the fact that I have an English version
(in which only French, spanish & english spell checks are available).
I was hoping that I could avoid buying MS Proofing tools, but I think
that's the only solution.

But thank you anyway!

"garfield-n-odie [MVP]" wrote:

Open the Word document where this problem occurs. Press Ctrl+A
to select all of the text, click on Tools | Language | Set
Language | choose your language | uncheck the "Detect language
automatically" and "Do not check spelling or grammar" boxes |
Default | OK, and press F7 to rerun spellcheck. If you are
prompted to save changes to your Normal.dot global template, say yes.

Ingeborg wrote:
I am working with the English version of XP and Word 2003. My Dutch
spell check does not work. I installed Dutch as my default
language, I unchecked the box "detect language automatically" in
the language dialogue box, and when I check my MS office language
settings, it appears that I have a licence for MS Office Proofing
Tools including 40-odd languages including Dutch.
But still, when I spell check my document, a message appears that
the spell check is complete when it is not the case, because my
text is full of mistakes...
What am I doing wrong??!!

Well, it does look like I have the proofing tools, when I check my Language
dialogue box I can read that I license was given to me, but when I check the
Proof settings on my C-drive, I can only find the English, French & Spanish
dictionnaries.
So maybe I should install the Dutch dictionnary from my installation cd's?
Let me know if you know how to do that!



"Graham Mayor" wrote:

Obviously you need the dictionaries for the spell check to work. Your first
post suggested that you had the proofing tools, your last suggests you
haven't.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


Ingeborg wrote:
Sorry Garfield,

that does not help. My Word is still convinced that the spell check is
complete, after doing nothing at all....
I think the problem is due to the fact that I have an English version
(in which only French, spanish & english spell checks are available).
I was hoping that I could avoid buying MS Proofing tools, but I think
that's the only solution.

But thank you anyway!

"garfield-n-odie [MVP]" wrote:

Open the Word document where this problem occurs. Press Ctrl+A
to select all of the text, click on Tools | Language | Set
Language | choose your language | uncheck the "Detect language
automatically" and "Do not check spelling or grammar" boxes |
Default | OK, and press F7 to rerun spellcheck. If you are
prompted to save changes to your Normal.dot global template, say yes.

Ingeborg wrote:
I am working with the English version of XP and Word 2003. My Dutch
spell check does not work. I installed Dutch as my default
language, I unchecked the box "detect language automatically" in
the language dialogue box, and when I check my MS office language
settings, it appears that I have a licence for MS Office Proofing
Tools including 40-odd languages including Dutch.
But still, when I spell check my document, a message appears that
the spell check is complete when it is not the case, because my
text is full of mistakes...
What am I doing wrong??!!

The proofing tools are a separate application from Word. You will need to
install from them the language(s) that you need -
http://www.microsoft.com/office/edit...fingtools.mspx

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


Ingeborg wrote:
Well, it does look like I have the proofing tools, when I check my
Language dialogue box I can read that I license was given to me, but
when I check the Proof settings on my C-drive, I can only find the
English, French & Spanish dictionnaries.
So maybe I should install the Dutch dictionnary from my installation
cd's? Let me know if you know how to do that!



"Graham Mayor" wrote:

Obviously you need the dictionaries for the spell check to work.
Your first post suggested that you had the proofing tools, your last
suggests you haven't.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


Ingeborg wrote:
Sorry Garfield,

that does not help. My Word is still convinced that the spell check
is complete, after doing nothing at all....
I think the problem is due to the fact that I have an English
version (in which only French, spanish & english spell checks are
available). I was hoping that I could avoid buying MS Proofing
tools, but I think that's the only solution.

But thank you anyway!

"garfield-n-odie [MVP]" wrote:

Open the Word document where this problem occurs. Press Ctrl+A
to select all of the text, click on Tools | Language | Set
Language | choose your language | uncheck the "Detect language
automatically" and "Do not check spelling or grammar" boxes |
Default | OK, and press F7 to rerun spellcheck. If you are
prompted to save changes to your Normal.dot global template, say
yes.

Ingeborg wrote:
I am working with the English version of XP and Word 2003. My
Dutch spell check does not work. I installed Dutch as my default
language, I unchecked the box "detect language automatically" in
the language dialogue box, and when I check my MS office language
settings, it appears that I have a licence for MS Office Proofing
Tools including 40-odd languages including Dutch.
But still, when I spell check my document, a message appears that
the spell check is complete when it is not the case, because my
text is full of mistakes...
What am I doing wrong??!!