Re: spelling and grammar checker malfunction revisited

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See Clive Huggan's response to your original post. Please don't repost the
same issue - especially when someone is already attempting to assist you.

Also, it may just be a matter of terminology, but you *can't* "discard" the
last ¶ - it is there to stay. Follow Clive's suggestions & please stay with
the original thread for any further messages on the same topic.

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac



On 4/7/07 9:03 AM, in article
1175951030.337856.211820@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "spike"
<demarsjohnson@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

First Post:
use Word 2004 for Mac.
I've created a several hundred page manuscript. Suddenly when I
activate the spelling/grammar checker a note appears across the
bottom
of the panel saying spelling and grammar is being checked. The usual
window for spell check doesn't appear anymore. (It does so in other
word docs I have including another version of this manuscript). So
this is my only Word Doc that does this. All other actions are
disallowed. So I have to force quit the doc. It can't be anything
in
my prefs for Word because this same problem doesn't surface for other
Word docs. I've tried discarding the very last carriage return
symbol
at the end of the text (preceding end notes and index).
Any help?

First Reply:
confirmed ----eliminate last paragraph marker in doc at very end of
doc (not prior to index). Did this. Problem persists. I may have
gone to Word Prefs/Spelling Grammar/ and at the bottom there is a
button entitled CHECK. One of the things that occurs when you click
on this CHECK is that it "Word resets the internal Ignore All list so
that Word will check for all words for which you previously clicked
Ignore All." Could it be that since I got a large document with
toc, index, and endnotes, since I clicked on that CHECK button, I may
have inadvertantly totally overwhelmed the spell/grammar checker?? If
so I'm assuming now that if this is the source of the problem, I
simply have to erase this version of the doc and loose some editing.
This is not a huge catastrope, but just a significant bother. OR--
might it be that the doc is simply corrupted and there is another
procedure, other than the eilimination of the last paragraph marker???
Thanks for any insights!!!!


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