Thank you so much!!!!!!! This worked perfectly when I had the same problem.
You have been a life saver.
LB

"garfield-n-odie" wrote:

This can happen if Word thinks your text is in a language for which you
do not have proofing tools installed. To fix it, open a document where
this problem occurs, press Ctrl+A to select all of the text, and click
on Tools | Language | Set Language | choose your language | uncheck
the "Detect language automatically" and "Do not check spelling or
grammar" boxes | Default | OK. Then press F7 to rerun spellcheck.

Paul Hodges wrote:

When using the spelling and grammar check tool in a newly installed copy of
Word XP (and after downloading SP3), I get an error message saying the
MSSpell3.dll, mssp232.dll, msgr??32.dll files are missing and the check
aborts.