Word 2007 Spell Check Issues

Well, the following worked for me while I was having this problem:
Go to the review tab. Under the proofing section, click on select
language. A dialog box will open allowing you to select your language
(this should be your preferred language with a check mark on the side
and a little abc icon). There are two boxes at the bottom. One says,
do not check spelling or grammar. Make sure there is NOT a check mark
in this box. The other box says, detect language automatically. This
one should be checked. I don't know why, but I have had one document
open with the right boxes checked, and have opened another document and
had the wrong one checked.

If the wrong box is checked, fix it. Close the document and reopen.
Like I said, this is what has happened to me and this fixed it. Sounds
like a lot of things could be wrong since it appears there are way too
many ways to disable the checker.


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Thanks for your help Lee, I'll try that and see how i get on.

"grasshopperlee" wrote:


Well, the following worked for me while I was having this problem:
Go to the review tab. Under the proofing section, click on select
language. A dialog box will open allowing you to select your language
(this should be your preferred language with a check mark on the side
and a little abc icon). There are two boxes at the bottom. One says,
do not check spelling or grammar. Make sure there is NOT a check mark
in this box. The other box says, detect language automatically. This
one should be checked. I don't know why, but I have had one document
open with the right boxes checked, and have opened another document and
had the wrong one checked.

If the wrong box is checked, fix it. Close the document and reopen.
Like I said, this is what has happened to me and this fixed it. Sounds
like a lot of things could be wrong since it appears there are way too
many ways to disable the checker.


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One unfortunate thing about the Language dialog box is that the two settings
at the bottom are different kinds of settings, yet the dialog box does not
warn you about this. Instead, you're led to believe the two settings work
identically. They do not. The first (Do not check) is a type of formatting
that affects only selected text. The second is a Word setting that affects
the entire Word session -- all open documents, all new documents, and all
documents you might open -- and stays in effect until/unless you change it.

The first (Do not check spelling or grammar) is a formatting setting that is
applied to selected text. It affects only the selection. So, if you enable
that setting, and haven't selected any text, then only the word where the
insertion point is currently located is affected (and perhaps only the
insertion point if "When selecting, automatically select entire word" is
turned off in [Office - Word Options - Advanced - Editing options]). This
setting is especially handy for marking passages containing technical jargon
or programming commands so that Word doesn't nag you about things not in the
dictionary. It's also useful for marking passages written in languages for
which you don't have proofing tools, or passages that contain numerous
spelling/grammatical mistakes that are part of a dialogue in which the
"speaker's" accent and other peculiarities are being captured using
inventive spelling.

The second (Detect language automatically) is a Word-wide setting that you
can turn on/off. It doesn't apply to selected text or even to a document. It
controls the whole Word environment. This setting can automatically change
the language formatting for what you're typing. Sometimes this is good,
sometimes this is bad... particularly if you don't notice it happening and
it's wrong. Personally, I usually keep this setting turned off. If I
misspell something, I don't want Word to "guess" [incorrectly] that I've
suddenly switched to Swedish, and change the language formatting. In the
unlikely event I suddenly start typing in Swedish, I'll change the language
myself (and check myself into a paranormal clinic to find out how it
happened).

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Author of the Word 2007 Bible
Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com
Web: http://www.herbtyson.com


"grasshopperlee" wrote in message
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Well, the following worked for me while I was having this problem:
Go to the review tab. Under the proofing section, click on select
language. A dialog box will open allowing you to select your language
(this should be your preferred language with a check mark on the side
and a little abc icon). There are two boxes at the bottom. One says,
do not check spelling or grammar. Make sure there is NOT a check mark
in this box. The other box says, detect language automatically. This
one should be checked. I don't know why, but I have had one document
open with the right boxes checked, and have opened another document and
had the wrong one checked.

If the wrong box is checked, fix it. Close the document and reopen.
Like I said, this is what has happened to me and this fixed it. Sounds
like a lot of things could be wrong since it appears there are way too
many ways to disable the checker.


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Well i'm not sure about the "in's and out"s of the programme as i am
certainly no techie but i tried what Grasshopperlee had to say and it has
worked for me!!!!! No more crashes every time i try to spell check.

"Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote:

One unfortunate thing about the Language dialog box is that the two settings
at the bottom are different kinds of settings, yet the dialog box does not
warn you about this. Instead, you're led to believe the two settings work
identically. They do not. The first (Do not check) is a type of formatting
that affects only selected text. The second is a Word setting that affects
the entire Word session -- all open documents, all new documents, and all
documents you might open -- and stays in effect until/unless you change it.

The first (Do not check spelling or grammar) is a formatting setting that is
applied to selected text. It affects only the selection. So, if you enable
that setting, and haven't selected any text, then only the word where the
insertion point is currently located is affected (and perhaps only the
insertion point if "When selecting, automatically select entire word" is
turned off in [Office - Word Options - Advanced - Editing options]). This
setting is especially handy for marking passages containing technical jargon
or programming commands so that Word doesn't nag you about things not in the
dictionary. It's also useful for marking passages written in languages for
which you don't have proofing tools, or passages that contain numerous
spelling/grammatical mistakes that are part of a dialogue in which the
"speaker's" accent and other peculiarities are being captured using
inventive spelling.

The second (Detect language automatically) is a Word-wide setting that you
can turn on/off. It doesn't apply to selected text or even to a document. It
controls the whole Word environment. This setting can automatically change
the language formatting for what you're typing. Sometimes this is good,
sometimes this is bad... particularly if you don't notice it happening and
it's wrong. Personally, I usually keep this setting turned off. If I
misspell something, I don't want Word to "guess" [incorrectly] that I've
suddenly switched to Swedish, and change the language formatting. In the
unlikely event I suddenly start typing in Swedish, I'll change the language
myself (and check myself into a paranormal clinic to find out how it
happened).

--
Herb Tyson MS MVP
Author of the Word 2007 Bible
Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com
Web: http://www.herbtyson.com


"grasshopperlee" wrote in message
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Well, the following worked for me while I was having this problem:
Go to the review tab. Under the proofing section, click on select
language. A dialog box will open allowing you to select your language
(this should be your preferred language with a check mark on the side
and a little abc icon). There are two boxes at the bottom. One says,
do not check spelling or grammar. Make sure there is NOT a check mark
in this box. The other box says, detect language automatically. This
one should be checked. I don't know why, but I have had one document
open with the right boxes checked, and have opened another document and
had the wrong one checked.

If the wrong box is checked, fix it. Close the document and reopen.
Like I said, this is what has happened to me and this fixed it. Sounds
like a lot of things could be wrong since it appears there are way too
many ways to disable the checker.


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lythambear,

Glad to hear that worked for you. I know I was pulling my hair out
trying to figure out why my spell checker wouldn't work. I am also no
techie. I like office 2007, but it seems a little more difficult to
control all of the options, and I certainly do not like having more
than one place to change settings, like turning off or on spellchecker.
Especially when it seems the software turns off settings by itself.


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I was having an intermittent problem with Word 2007 not spell checking
text when pasted from other applications. Word would indicate that the
spell check was complete with no errors, and clearly there where
errors.

I did the process outlined by grasshopperlee

Go to the review tab. Under the proofing section, click on
select language. A dialog box will open allowing you to select your
language (this should be your preferred language with a check mark on
the side and a little abc icon). There are two boxes at the bottom. One
says, do not check spelling or grammar. Make sure there is NOT a check
mark in this box. The other box says, detect language automatically.
This one should be checked. I don't know why, but I have had one
document open with the right boxes checked, and have opened another
document and had the wrong one checked.

All is working again!!! Thank you!


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I, too, have trouble with the spell check in WORD 2007. All the settings are
fine, but the spell check does not catch any misspelled words.

Could you tell me how to find, backup and delete the registry key you are
talking about here?

"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
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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.

Hello, I am also having problems with spellchecker working in my office 2007.
Nothing is showing up as misspelled (when there are obvious mistakes). I do
not know how to delete a registry key. Can you provide more help for the
nontechie?

I have tried the other suggestions in this string of posts, but they did not
work and I am getting despirate, I need my spellchecker.

Thanks
Kaye

"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.

I have a similar problem with the spell check. The grammar check works fine
but not the spell check. I tried to follow the link below to try and rectify
this problem but only got to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Shared
Tools\ProofingTools\1.0 then was unable to find the document. Please advise how I go about rectifying this problem as a matter of urgency. Am I better off reverting to an earlier Word version and if so, how do I got about this?

Thanks,
Mel

"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.

Ok,
I believe I have read everything posted, but am still not sure why
spell check will not recognize the obvious errors. I believe I have
double checked everything that has been mentioned and with the
exception of the registry key
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Shared
Tools\ProofingTools\1.0\Override\en-US

which I did not find, I am at a loss. The machine was recently updated
from Office 2003 to Office 2007. I am not too familiar with working
with the registry, so more information on creating a new entry would
need to be provided.

Thanks,
D


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