Version: 2004 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) Processor: intel My spell check is not working. I can check the spelling of words I know are wrong, but the spell check does not catch it. I checked the language. It is set to US English.
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I have checked my preferences. The following are checked: Check Spelling as you type Always suggest corrections Suggest from main dictionary only Ignore internet and file addresses The international input is set to English.
What else can I do??? MC 11/3/2008, 15:51 น. He's correct: The language marked in your text controls the spelling and grammar checkers.
If you have marked the text in a language you do not have, the spelling checker is disabled for those words. Cheers On 12/3/08 10:59 AM, in article [email protected], ' wrote: - Don't wait for your answer, click here: Please reply in the group. Please do NOT email me unless I ask you to. John McGhie, Consultant Technical Writer McGhie Information Engineering Pty Ltd Sydney, Australia. S33°53'34.20 E151°14'54.50 +61 4 1209 1410, mailto: [email protected] 13/3/2008, 6:01 น.
If the same words are always not checked, then it sounds like you added them to the custom dictionary. See if the specific steps here help-perhaps the 'do not check' formatting has been added to your document?
Also: In Word Preferences Spelling & Grammar, make sure the box labeled 'Hide spelling errors in this document' is UNchecked (and ditto for the similar box for grammar). You might also click the Check Document button while there, then recheck the spelling. It's possible that during a previous spell check the Ignore/Ignore All option was used. [email protected] 13/3/2008, 12:56 น. Hi Chris: There is one more condition that can cause this: if you (or a different user) has inadvertently 'ignored' the word when previously spell-checking the document.
Go to WordPreferencesSpelling and Grammar and hit 'Recheck Document'. That resets all the 'ignores' in the document. Hope this helps On 14/3/08 5:26 AM, in article [email protected], ' wrote: - Don't wait for your answer, click here: Please reply in the group. Please do NOT email me unless I ask you to. John McGhie, Consultant Technical Writer McGhie Information Engineering Pty Ltd Sydney, Australia. S33°53'34.20 E151°14'54.50 +61 4 1209 1410, mailto: [email protected] 14/3/2008, 5:19 น.
Thanks again for replying and offering the wonderful advice. This also has been tried. I think I received a bad copy of office, because nothing seems to work. I can open a brand new document and type the following: 'I canot trut my spelchek.' And it does not catch anything.
When I go to preferences and hit the recheck document button, I get the warning message, click OK, and then it says it rechecked the document and still does not find any mistakes. I am just about to give up on word altogether. Thanks again for all of your replies. I really appreciate the time you have taken on this. Chris Daiya Mitchell 14/3/2008, 8:43 น. To everyone, MC, John, Dalya, thank you from the bottom of my heart.
It is finally resolved. The English was missing from the proofing tool folder. I pulled out the original disc and reinstalled the proofing tools. Now it catches my mistakes. Thanks again for helping me and keep answering my questions. I hope this is able to help someone else if they get into my predicament.
Also, whoever is in charge of the link with all of the spellcheck issues from, might want to update the part about checking to make sure the proofing tool folder has the correct language. Thank you many times over, Chris Daiya Mitchell 14/3/2008, 12:13 น. Very sorry - just figured it out!
The program did not recognize the text language (and I did go through and set the language a few times). I have never seen this before.so I guess this is a tip for everyone out there with this issue: Run the Compatibility Report and make sure Word recognizes the language of the document.
K I am having the exact same problem, tried all the ideas listed above, and I DO have the English tools in Applications/Microsoft Office 2004/Shared Applications/Proofing Tools/. In fact, this is the first time I have ever used the Spell Check on this system, so there is no chance that someone added all the incorrect words to the dictionary.
I am at a total loss! The words are definitely incorrect and it's telling me it's fine. Kristina Daiya Mitchell 9/6/2008, 4:14 น.