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Spell check does not work in Word 2007
Recently purchased Office 2007.
I noticed the spell checker does not work. I typed a document and misspelled every word and spell check did not try to correct one. Went into word options and verified English (US) was primary language. Any suggestions as what to do or is the just a 2007 bug?? |
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Hi ?B?S2V2aW4=?=,
Recently purchased Office 2007. I noticed the spell checker does not work. I typed a document and misspelled every word and spell check did not try to correct one. Went into word options and verified English (US) was primary language. But are you sure the text you typed is formatted in that language? When you click in a misspelled word, look down at the status bar and check the language. (If you don't see the language, right-click the status bar and choose to add that from the list.) If it shows English, what happens if you press F7 to force a spell check? Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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Spell check does not work in Word 2007
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. -- -Dee "Cindy M." wrote: Hi ?B?S2V2aW4=?=, Recently purchased Office 2007. I noticed the spell checker does not work. I typed a document and misspelled every word and spell check did not try to correct one. Went into word options and verified English (US) was primary language. But are you sure the text you typed is formatted in that language? When you click in a misspelled word, look down at the status bar and check the language. (If you don't see the language, right-click the status bar and choose to add that from the list.) If it shows English, what happens if you press F7 to force a spell check? Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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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 This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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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 This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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Spell check does not work in Word 2007
You seem to have a second thread about this problem in office.misc.
Please don't multipost like this. Patrick Schmid [OneNote MVP] -------------- http://pschmid.net *** Outlook 2007 Performance Update: http://pschmid.net/blog/2007/04/13/105 Office 2007 RTM Issues: http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/11/13/80 *** Customize Office 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/customize RibbonCustomizer Add-In: http://ribboncustomizer.com OneNote 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/onenote *** Subscribe to my Office 2007 blog: http://pschmid.net/blog/feed "Dee" wrote in message : 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 This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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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 This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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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 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/ "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 This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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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 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/ "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 This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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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. 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/ "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 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/ "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 This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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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 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/ "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 This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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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 |
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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 |
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Did you try the Registry fix?
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/ "Mike" wrote in message ... 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 |
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Spell check does not work in Word 2007
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 |
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did regedit... actually whacked the entire proofing tools entry and it
rebuilt, but problem not solved. "Beth Melton" wrote: Did you try the Registry fix? 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/ "Mike" wrote in message ... 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 |
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Spell check does not work in Word 2007
got it to work, saw advice in another thread, search out all the normal.*
templates and delete them ALL, uninstall and they reinstall... all's well "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 |
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I followed the steps until the override and it seems like there isnt one.
Maybe not in windows vista? In vista, what key should i try and delete to get it to reset. Thanks for the help. "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 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/ "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 This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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Spell check does not work in Word 2007
Ive bee having the same problems. I was just wondering, if I delete the
registry key, will it affect my computer or cause any harm? I am very wary of doing this sort of thing, as Ive heard it can lead to problems. Please can you tell me if this will do any harm? I really want to get my Word 2007 to do spell check again. Thanks, J. "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 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/ "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 This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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Spell check does not work in Word 2007
If you delete the correct registry key, there's no problem. Word will
automatically create a new one the next time Word is launched. If you're concerned that deleting is too harsh, you can rename the existing data key (e.g., as DataX), see if the new one Word creates works for you, and then delete the DataX one once you're sure a) the solution worked and b) you renamed the correct one. By renaming, you always have the option of renaming it back to Data if need be. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "J." wrote in message ... Ive bee having the same problems. I was just wondering, if I delete the registry key, will it affect my computer or cause any harm? I am very wary of doing this sort of thing, as Ive heard it can lead to problems. Please can you tell me if this will do any harm? I really want to get my Word 2007 to do spell check again. Thanks, J. "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 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/ "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 This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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Spell check does not work in Word 2007
I deleted the registry key and it was rebuilt as "Update Complete". The
spell check still doesnt work. Did i delete the incorrect reg key? Thanks "Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote: If you delete the correct registry key, there's no problem. Word will automatically create a new one the next time Word is launched. If you're concerned that deleting is too harsh, you can rename the existing data key (e.g., as DataX), see if the new one Word creates works for you, and then delete the DataX one once you're sure a) the solution worked and b) you renamed the correct one. By renaming, you always have the option of renaming it back to Data if need be. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "J." wrote in message ... Ive bee having the same problems. I was just wondering, if I delete the registry key, will it affect my computer or cause any harm? I am very wary of doing this sort of thing, as Ive heard it can lead to problems. Please can you tell me if this will do any harm? I really want to get my Word 2007 to do spell check again. Thanks, J. "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 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/ "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 This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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Spell check does not work in Word 2007
I was told that there is NO spell checker in Word 2007. I was also told to
transfer a version of spell checker from a previous Word program, such as Word 2000. "Ryan" wrote: I deleted the registry key and it was rebuilt as "Update Complete". The spell check still doesnt work. Did i delete the incorrect reg key? Thanks "Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote: If you delete the correct registry key, there's no problem. Word will automatically create a new one the next time Word is launched. If you're concerned that deleting is too harsh, you can rename the existing data key (e.g., as DataX), see if the new one Word creates works for you, and then delete the DataX one once you're sure a) the solution worked and b) you renamed the correct one. By renaming, you always have the option of renaming it back to Data if need be. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "J." wrote in message ... Ive bee having the same problems. I was just wondering, if I delete the registry key, will it affect my computer or cause any harm? I am very wary of doing this sort of thing, as Ive heard it can lead to problems. Please can you tell me if this will do any harm? I really want to get my Word 2007 to do spell check again. Thanks, J. "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 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/ "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 This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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Spell check does not work in Word 2007
You were told wrong. There is a spell checker in Word 2007, and it works for
most people. It doesn't work for a small number of people, usually because of misconfiguration (often a wrong language setting), a registry problem such as Herb discussed, or a badly written add-in. Further, the spell checkers from previous versions of Word won't work -- each one is version-specific, and you never could mix & match them. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. witsend2004 wrote: I was told that there is NO spell checker in Word 2007. I was also told to transfer a version of spell checker from a previous Word program, such as Word 2000. "Ryan" wrote: I deleted the registry key and it was rebuilt as "Update Complete". The spell check still doesnt work. Did i delete the incorrect reg key? Thanks "Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote: If you delete the correct registry key, there's no problem. Word will automatically create a new one the next time Word is launched. If you're concerned that deleting is too harsh, you can rename the existing data key (e.g., as DataX), see if the new one Word creates works for you, and then delete the DataX one once you're sure a) the solution worked and b) you renamed the correct one. By renaming, you always have the option of renaming it back to Data if need be. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "J." wrote in message ... Ive bee having the same problems. I was just wondering, if I delete the registry key, will it affect my computer or cause any harm? I am very wary of doing this sort of thing, as Ive heard it can lead to problems. Please can you tell me if this will do any harm? I really want to get my Word 2007 to do spell check again. Thanks, J. "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 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/ "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 This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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Jay Freedman wrote:
Further, the spell checkers from previous versions of Word won't work -- each one is version-specific, and you never could mix & match them. Not strictly true as the Word 2003 proofing tools will work with Word 2007 with some provisos - http://www.gmayor.com/office_2003_proofing_tools.htm -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org |
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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 |
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"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 |
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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 |
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Hello -
In my Registry there isn't a: Override - en-US. Just: Microsoft, Shared Tools, Proofing Tools, 1.0 I've tried uninstalling re-installing. I have followed all other advice in checking the language. The error I get is: "Cannot find proofing tools for English (U.S.). If you have the proofing tools, try installling or re-installing them. Contact your local reseller to obtain Office proofing tools. For more information, see the Microsoft Office Site." And here I am. After that above error if I push the issue with Word 2007 by hitting F7 or clicking on spell check it will justtell me that "Spell Check is Complete." No red or green wavey underlines ever. The Thesaurus will not work either however, it will act as though it will by bringing up the right side panel with options. I see I am not the only one that does not have the override-en-US in their regedit and there have been no solutions posted for this matter. PLEASE HELP, thanks in advance! "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 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/ "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 This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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To verify your Language settings, if you go to Start/All Programs/Microsoft
Office/Microsoft Office Tools/Microsoft Office 2007 Language Settings, is English (US) enabled as your Primary Editing Language and is enabled? If so, what happens if you exit all Microsoft applications, set another language as the Primary Editing Language (such as an Arabic language), click OK, then return to the Language Settings and set English (US) as the Primary Editing Language? 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/ "jeliarra" wrote in message ... Hello - In my Registry there isn't a: Override - en-US. Just: Microsoft, Shared Tools, Proofing Tools, 1.0 I've tried uninstalling re-installing. I have followed all other advice in checking the language. The error I get is: "Cannot find proofing tools for English (U.S.). If you have the proofing tools, try installling or re-installing them. Contact your local reseller to obtain Office proofing tools. For more information, see the Microsoft Office Site." And here I am. After that above error if I push the issue with Word 2007 by hitting F7 or clicking on spell check it will justtell me that "Spell Check is Complete." No red or green wavey underlines ever. The Thesaurus will not work either however, it will act as though it will by bringing up the right side panel with options. I see I am not the only one that does not have the override-en-US in their regedit and there have been no solutions posted for this matter. PLEASE HELP, thanks in advance! "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 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/ "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 This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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Hi Beth:
No override option on the regedit for shared programs in my situation. Confirmed the language was set to US English. Selected a different primary language, and still no spell checking. By the way, I installed Office 2007 on my desktop and my traveling laptop as allowed by the license agreement. No problems with spell checking on the desktop, but the laptop has the problem. Both run XP. When I ran Office diagnostics, the desktop show one more file set (20) being analyzed compared to the laptop (19). I uninstalled and reinstalled Office 2007 on the laptop as well, but no fix. "Beth Melton" wrote: To verify your Language settings, if you go to Start/All Programs/Microsoft Office/Microsoft Office Tools/Microsoft Office 2007 Language Settings, is English (US) enabled as your Primary Editing Language and is enabled? If so, what happens if you exit all Microsoft applications, set another language as the Primary Editing Language (such as an Arabic language), click OK, then return to the Language Settings and set English (US) as the Primary Editing Language? 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/ "jeliarra" wrote in message ... Hello - In my Registry there isn't a: Override - en-US. Just: Microsoft, Shared Tools, Proofing Tools, 1.0 I've tried uninstalling re-installing. I have followed all other advice in checking the language. The error I get is: "Cannot find proofing tools for English (U.S.). If you have the proofing tools, try installling or re-installing them. Contact your local reseller to obtain Office proofing tools. For more information, see the Microsoft Office Site." And here I am. After that above error if I push the issue with Word 2007 by hitting F7 or clicking on spell check it will justtell me that "Spell Check is Complete." No red or green wavey underlines ever. The Thesaurus will not work either however, it will act as though it will by bringing up the right side panel with options. I see I am not the only one that does not have the override-en-US in their regedit and there have been no solutions posted for this matter. PLEASE HELP, thanks in advance! "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 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/ "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 This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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Spell check does not work in Word 2007
In the famous words of Rosanne Roseannadanna... "Nevermind"
I ran the Office set up and selected change. Found that all of the shared resources were selected as off. Selected them for on, and now spellchecker works. Kevin "Kevin" wrote: Hi Beth: No override option on the regedit for shared programs in my situation. Confirmed the language was set to US English. Selected a different primary language, and still no spell checking. By the way, I installed Office 2007 on my desktop and my traveling laptop as allowed by the license agreement. No problems with spell checking on the desktop, but the laptop has the problem. Both run XP. When I ran Office diagnostics, the desktop show one more file set (20) being analyzed compared to the laptop (19). I uninstalled and reinstalled Office 2007 on the laptop as well, but no fix. "Beth Melton" wrote: To verify your Language settings, if you go to Start/All Programs/Microsoft Office/Microsoft Office Tools/Microsoft Office 2007 Language Settings, is English (US) enabled as your Primary Editing Language and is enabled? If so, what happens if you exit all Microsoft applications, set another language as the Primary Editing Language (such as an Arabic language), click OK, then return to the Language Settings and set English (US) as the Primary Editing Language? 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/ "jeliarra" wrote in message ... Hello - In my Registry there isn't a: Override - en-US. Just: Microsoft, Shared Tools, Proofing Tools, 1.0 I've tried uninstalling re-installing. I have followed all other advice in checking the language. The error I get is: "Cannot find proofing tools for English (U.S.). If you have the proofing tools, try installling or re-installing them. Contact your local reseller to obtain Office proofing tools. For more information, see the Microsoft Office Site." And here I am. After that above error if I push the issue with Word 2007 by hitting F7 or clicking on spell check it will justtell me that "Spell Check is Complete." No red or green wavey underlines ever. The Thesaurus will not work either however, it will act as though it will by bringing up the right side panel with options. I see I am not the only one that does not have the override-en-US in their regedit and there have been no solutions posted for this matter. PLEASE HELP, thanks in advance! "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 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/ "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 This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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Spell check does not work in Word 2007
That's something I would have never thought to check so we really appreciate
the update, Kevin! I suspect what you found is another solution to the spell check issues we've been seeing a LOT lately. I'll be sure to pass this information along to others. :-) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beth Melton Microsoft Office MVP https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Melton What is a Microsoft MVP? http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/gp/mvpfaqs "Kevin" wrote in message ... In the famous words of Rosanne Roseannadanna... "Nevermind" I ran the Office set up and selected change. Found that all of the shared resources were selected as off. Selected them for on, and now spellchecker works. Kevin "Kevin" wrote: Hi Beth: No override option on the regedit for shared programs in my situation. Confirmed the language was set to US English. Selected a different primary language, and still no spell checking. By the way, I installed Office 2007 on my desktop and my traveling laptop as allowed by the license agreement. No problems with spell checking on the desktop, but the laptop has the problem. Both run XP. When I ran Office diagnostics, the desktop show one more file set (20) being analyzed compared to the laptop (19). I uninstalled and reinstalled Office 2007 on the laptop as well, but no fix. "Beth Melton" wrote: To verify your Language settings, if you go to Start/All Programs/Microsoft Office/Microsoft Office Tools/Microsoft Office 2007 Language Settings, is English (US) enabled as your Primary Editing Language and is enabled? If so, what happens if you exit all Microsoft applications, set another language as the Primary Editing Language (such as an Arabic language), click OK, then return to the Language Settings and set English (US) as the Primary Editing Language? 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/ "jeliarra" wrote in message ... Hello - In my Registry there isn't a: Override - en-US. Just: Microsoft, Shared Tools, Proofing Tools, 1.0 I've tried uninstalling re-installing. I have followed all other advice in checking the language. The error I get is: "Cannot find proofing tools for English (U.S.). If you have the proofing tools, try installling or re-installing them. Contact your local reseller to obtain Office proofing tools. For more information, see the Microsoft Office Site." And here I am. After that above error if I push the issue with Word 2007 by hitting F7 or clicking on spell check it will justtell me that "Spell Check is Complete." No red or green wavey underlines ever. The Thesaurus will not work either however, it will act as though it will by bringing up the right side panel with options. I see I am not the only one that does not have the override-en-US in their regedit and there have been no solutions posted for this matter. PLEASE HELP, thanks in advance! "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 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/ "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 This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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