Word 2007 Spell Check Issues

When creating a new document in word 2007, obvious mispelled words are not
picked up by the spell checker. All settings and options have been double
check by my IT department, however it still does not work. The message states
" The spelling and grammer check is complete" but the mistakes are not picked
up. When I used the trial version I did not have any problems with this,
however once my office bought the full version spell check is no longer
working. Any help or ideas would be greatly appreciated.

First, click the Microsoft Office Button, close it, and see if spell check
begins to work. (Believe it or not, there's a slight bug with spell check
and the Microsoft Office Button, you need to click it once for it to start
working. Note that this only applies to new installations and it will only
happen once.)

If that doesn't work then if no custom spell checker have been installed on
the computer, exit Word, and then backup and delete the following registry
key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Shared
Tools\ProofingTools\1.0\Override\en-US

This key will be rebuilt the next time you start Word. Please let us know if
this resolves the issue. This resolution, found by Bob Buckland on another
forum, has been only recently been confirmed by Microsoft. :-)

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

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Beth Melton
Microsoft Office MVP

Co-author 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/

"JaclynK" wrote in message
...
When creating a new document in word 2007, obvious mispelled words are not
picked up by the spell checker. All settings and options have been double
check by my IT department, however it still does not work. The message
states
" The spelling and grammer check is complete" but the mistakes are not
picked
up. When I used the trial version I did not have any problems with this,
however once my office bought the full version spell check is no longer
working. Any help or ideas would be greatly appreciated.

I re-installed the English dictionary from office 2003 and this worked.
Unfortunately the 'Read Mail' button on the command toolbar doesn't now. I
access outlook from the outlook icon instead.
Regards
Stick
"Beth Melton" wrote in message
...
First, click the Microsoft Office Button, close it, and see if spell check
begins to work. (Believe it or not, there's a slight bug with spell check
and the Microsoft Office Button, you need to click it once for it to start
working. Note that this only applies to new installations and it will only
happen once.)

If that doesn't work then if no custom spell checker have been installed
on
the computer, exit Word, and then backup and delete the following registry
key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Shared
Tools\ProofingTools\1.0\Override\en-US

This key will be rebuilt the next time you start Word. Please let us know
if
this resolves the issue. This resolution, found by Bob Buckland on another
forum, has been only recently been confirmed by Microsoft. :-)

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

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Beth Melton
Microsoft Office MVP

Co-author 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/

"JaclynK" wrote in message
...
When creating a new document in word 2007, obvious mispelled words are
not
picked up by the spell checker. All settings and options have been double
check by my IT department, however it still does not work. The message
states
" The spelling and grammer check is complete" but the mistakes are not
picked
up. When I used the trial version I did not have any problems with this,
however once my office bought the full version spell check is no longer
working. Any help or ideas would be greatly appreciated.

I'm not following why you installed proofing tools from Office 2003 for
Office 2007???

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

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Beth Melton
Microsoft Office MVP

Co-author 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/

"Stick Stickus" wrote in message
.com...
I re-installed the English dictionary from office 2003 and this worked.
Unfortunately the 'Read Mail' button on the command toolbar doesn't now. I
access outlook from the outlook icon instead.
Regards
Stick
"Beth Melton" wrote in message
...
First, click the Microsoft Office Button, close it, and see if spell
check
begins to work. (Believe it or not, there's a slight bug with spell check
and the Microsoft Office Button, you need to click it once for it to
start
working. Note that this only applies to new installations and it will
only
happen once.)

If that doesn't work then if no custom spell checker have been installed
on
the computer, exit Word, and then backup and delete the following
registry
key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Shared
Tools\ProofingTools\1.0\Override\en-US

This key will be rebuilt the next time you start Word. Please let us know
if
this resolves the issue. This resolution, found by Bob Buckland on
another
forum, has been only recently been confirmed by Microsoft. :-)

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

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Beth Melton
Microsoft Office MVP

Co-author 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/

"JaclynK" wrote in message
...
When creating a new document in word 2007, obvious mispelled words are
not
picked up by the spell checker. All settings and options have been
double
check by my IT department, however it still does not work. The message
states
" The spelling and grammer check is complete" but the mistakes are not
picked
up. When I used the trial version I did not have any problems with this,
however once my office bought the full version spell check is no longer
working. Any help or ideas would be greatly appreciated.

After installing Office 2007 the english spell checker in outlook express
was in french only. By doing as i did I was able to use an english spell
checker on outlook express.
Regards
Stick
"Beth Melton" wrote in message
...
I'm not following why you installed proofing tools from Office 2003 for
Office 2007???

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

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Beth Melton
Microsoft Office MVP

Co-author 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/

"Stick Stickus" wrote in message
.com...
I re-installed the English dictionary from office 2003 and this worked.
Unfortunately the 'Read Mail' button on the command toolbar doesn't now. I
access outlook from the outlook icon instead.
Regards
Stick
"Beth Melton" wrote in message
...
First, click the Microsoft Office Button, close it, and see if spell
check
begins to work. (Believe it or not, there's a slight bug with spell
check
and the Microsoft Office Button, you need to click it once for it to
start
working. Note that this only applies to new installations and it will
only
happen once.)

If that doesn't work then if no custom spell checker have been installed
on
the computer, exit Word, and then backup and delete the following
registry
key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Shared
Tools\ProofingTools\1.0\Override\en-US

This key will be rebuilt the next time you start Word. Please let us
know if
this resolves the issue. This resolution, found by Bob Buckland on
another
forum, has been only recently been confirmed by Microsoft. :-)

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

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Beth Melton
Microsoft Office MVP

Co-author 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/

"JaclynK" wrote in message
...
When creating a new document in word 2007, obvious mispelled words are
not
picked up by the spell checker. All settings and options have been
double
check by my IT department, however it still does not work. The message
states
" The spelling and grammer check is complete" but the mistakes are not
picked
up. When I used the trial version I did not have any problems with
this,
however once my office bought the full version spell check is no longer
working. Any help or ideas would be greatly appreciated.

After I posted I realized that you weren't JacklynK replying to my
suggestion and perhaps you were offering a suggestion for her??

Your suggestion sort of works for the inability to spell check in OE but it
won't resolve the inability to use spell check in the Office applications
themselves, which is the issue JacklynK is having.

I stated "sort of" because if all you installed were the proofing tools then
it isn't enough to trigger activation and you won't pass the Microsoft
Genuine Advantage test if you try to download something from Microsoft.com.
The only way around this is to install something else to trigger activation.
Using the proofing tools from Office XP results in the same behavior and if
you install them from Office 2000 you end up with more issues. Right now the
best solution is to download a third-party spell checker. :-(

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

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Beth Melton
Microsoft Office MVP

Co-author 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/

"Stick Stickus" wrote in message
.com...
After installing Office 2007 the english spell checker in outlook express
was in french only. By doing as i did I was able to use an english spell
checker on outlook express.
Regards
Stick
"Beth Melton" wrote in message
...
I'm not following why you installed proofing tools from Office 2003 for
Office 2007???

"Stick Stickus" wrote in message
.com...
I re-installed the English dictionary from office 2003 and this worked.
Unfortunately the 'Read Mail' button on the command toolbar doesn't now.
I access outlook from the outlook icon instead.
Regards
Stick
"Beth Melton" wrote in message
...
First, click the Microsoft Office Button, close it, and see if spell
check
begins to work. (Believe it or not, there's a slight bug with spell
check
and the Microsoft Office Button, you need to click it once for it to
start
working. Note that this only applies to new installations and it will
only
happen once.)

If that doesn't work then if no custom spell checker have been
installed on
the computer, exit Word, and then backup and delete the following
registry
key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Shared
Tools\ProofingTools\1.0\Override\en-US

This key will be rebuilt the next time you start Word. Please let us
know if
this resolves the issue. This resolution, found by Bob Buckland on
another
forum, has been only recently been confirmed by Microsoft. :-)

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

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Beth Melton
Microsoft Office MVP

Co-author 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/

"JaclynK" wrote in message
...
When creating a new document in word 2007, obvious mispelled words are
not
picked up by the spell checker. All settings and options have been
double
check by my IT department, however it still does not work. The message
states
" The spelling and grammer check is complete" but the mistakes are not
picked
up. When I used the trial version I did not have any problems with
this,
however once my office bought the full version spell check is no
longer
working. Any help or ideas would be greatly appreciated.

On Apr 23, 4:23 pm, "Beth Melton" wrote:
First, click the Microsoft Office Button, close it, and see ifspellcheck
begins to work. (Believe it or not, there's a slight bug withspellcheck
and the Microsoft Office Button, you need to click it once for it to start
working. Note that this only applies to new installations and it will only
happen once.)

If that doesn't work then if no customspellchecker have been installed on
the computer, exit Word, and then backup and delete the following registry
key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Shared
Tools\ProofingTools\1.0\Override\en-US

This key will be rebuilt the next time you start Word. Please let us know if
this resolves the issue. This resolution, found by Bob Buckland on another
forum, has been only recently been confirmed by Microsoft. :-)

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

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Beth Melton
Microsoft Office MVP

Co-author 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/

"JaclynK" wrote in message

...



When creating a new document in word 2007, obvious mispelled words are not
picked up by thespellchecker. All settings and options have been double
checkby my IT department, however it still does not work. The message
states
" The spelling and grammercheckis complete" but the mistakes are not
picked
up. When I used the trial version I did not have any problems with this,
however once my office bought the full versionspellcheckis no longer
working. Any help or ideas would be greatly appreciated.- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Beth - This worked for me! Thanks! I was pulling my hair out!

Thanks for this, this also worked for me.

I had the english UK dictionary installed, but could not use it for
spell check etc, but could use the US dictionary.

I also noticed that the English UK dictionary did not have the ABC
Tick next to it in the available dictionaries.


On 15 May, 18:32, wrote:
On Apr 23, 4:23 pm, "Beth Melton" wrote:





First, click the MicrosoftOfficeButton, close it, and see ifspellcheck
begins to work. (Believe it or not, there's a slight bug withspellcheck
and the MicrosoftOfficeButton, you need to click it once for it to start
working. Note that this only applies to new installations and it will only
happen once.)

If that doesn't work then if no customspellchecker have been installed on
the computer, exit Word, and then backup and delete the following registry
key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Shared
Tools\ProofingTools\1.0\Override\en-US

This key will be rebuilt the next time you start Word. Please let us know if
this resolves the issue. This resolution, found by Bob Buckland on another
forum, has been only recently been confirmed by Microsoft. :-)

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

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Beth Melton
MicrosoftOfficeMVP

Co-author of Word2007Inside 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/

"JaclynK" wrote in message

...

When creating a new document in word2007, obvious mispelled words are not
picked up by thespellchecker. All settings and options have been double
checkby my IT department, however it still does not work. The message
states
" The spelling and grammercheckis complete" but the mistakes are not
picked
up. When I used the trial version I did not have any problems with this,
however once myofficebought the full versionspellcheckis no longer
working. Any help or ideas would be greatly appreciated.- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Beth - This worked for me! Thanks! I was pulling my hair out!- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

I have tried this solution but had no luck... this bug is really annoying. Is
there anything else I should try?

Any help will be greatly appreciated.
--
CipherTeKST
MCSE: Security 2003, CCNA, Security+


"Beth Melton" wrote:

First, click the Microsoft Office Button, close it, and see if spell check
begins to work. (Believe it or not, there's a slight bug with spell check
and the Microsoft Office Button, you need to click it once for it to start
working. Note that this only applies to new installations and it will only
happen once.)

If that doesn't work then if no custom spell checker have been installed on
the computer, exit Word, and then backup and delete the following registry
key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Shared
Tools\ProofingTools\1.0\Override\en-US

This key will be rebuilt the next time you start Word. Please let us know if
this resolves the issue. This resolution, found by Bob Buckland on another
forum, has been only recently been confirmed by Microsoft. :-)

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

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Beth Melton
Microsoft Office MVP

Co-author 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/

"JaclynK" wrote in message
...
When creating a new document in word 2007, obvious mispelled words are not
picked up by the spell checker. All settings and options have been double
check by my IT department, however it still does not work. The message
states
" The spelling and grammer check is complete" but the mistakes are not
picked
up. When I used the trial version I did not have any problems with this,
however once my office bought the full version spell check is no longer
working. Any help or ideas would be greatly appreciated.

My problem is that the Spell Checker has a life of its own. Every time i run
it it crashes my Word 2007. Anybody any ideas ??
I've tried the diagnostics etc, closed it down, started it up again, done
what "Beth" suggested earlier. I'm running a trial version of Office
Professional 2007.
"JaclynK" wrote:

When creating a new document in word 2007, obvious mispelled words are not
picked up by the spell checker. All settings and options have been double
check by my IT department, however it still does not work. The message states
" The spelling and grammer check is complete" but the mistakes are not picked
up. When I used the trial version I did not have any problems with this,
however once my office bought the full version spell check is no longer
working. Any help or ideas would be greatly appreciated.