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. 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???
> 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. I have checked my preferences. The following are checked:
Does this happen with every document? Does it happen with dosuments you
create?
If you're trying to check a document that includes text from an outside
source it is possible for a paragraph or two to be in another language
-- happens to me all the time. I paste in text from French and the paste
retains the language (in the Word sense of language) of the original. In
the case of French it makes the punctuation behave à la française too --
inserts spaces before periods, question marks and so on and the quote
key enters French quotation marks -- the workaraound is to Select the
whole document and then select English (US) under Tools->Language.
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"Scriptwriting is making a cut and controlling the bleedingŠ"
Thank you for replying.
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 ee93...@webcrossing.caR9absDaxw,
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Thanks,
Chris
See if the specific steps here help--perhaps the "do not check"
formatting has been added to your document?
http://word.mvps.org/mac/SpellCheck.html#Misspelled
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.
Thanks again for your replies,
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 Word>Preferences>Spelling 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 ee93...@webcrossing.caR9absDaxw,
"cva...@officeformac.com" <cva...@officeformac.com> wrote:
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Thanks again for all of your replies. I really appreciate the time you have taken on this.
Chris
Can you confirm that you tried everything listed, exactly as written? Be
sure to see the heading "Check Your System Setup" And might as well see
if anything listed under #2 helps.
Also, do you *have* English proofing tools in this folder?
Applications/Microsoft Office 2004/Shared Applications/Proofing Tools/
To answer your question, no, I do not *have* English proofing tool in this folder. I have German, Italian, Spanish, and Swedish, but no Enlish. That very well may be my problem. Do you know where I can get it from?
Thanks again,
Chris
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 word.mvps.org, 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
That'd be me. It's never been the problem before so I didn't think to
add it, but will.
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On 3/14/08 11:42 AM, in article ee93...@webcrossing.caR9absDaxw,
Sorry again!
K
The spelling/language mechanism in Word is pretty confusing--this page
spells out common issues:
http://word.mvps.org/mac/SpellCheck.html#HowItWorks