Re: Office 2003 and Proofing Tools 2003 problem

Terry,

I suspect in the majority of cases your presumption would have been correct.

Yes it does need installing in Office Tools, but I had already done that.
My difficulty seems to have been how to invoke the checker for the selected
language.

I have described this in a reply to Bob Buckland, and I have revised my
words slightly in light of experience.
In Word, first, under Tools/Language/Set Language the desired language,
though in the installed list, must be double clicked to invoke it and bring
it to the top of the installed list if its not already there.
It's not good enough to simply to be in the installed list.
If this is not done the spellchecker will open in default (English)

In this same dialogue box are two check boxes:
'Do NOT enable spellchecker'
'Detect language automatically'

The first of these can get stuck in the checked mode.
Certainly it will open in that mode if a default language document has been
opened in the interim.

Before starting any language selection it is necessary to 'select' the whole
of the text to be checked in the desired language (Italian). Then, after
going through the Tools/ Set Language routine and unchecking 'Do NOT enable
spellchecker' and clicking out ok, the selected text (still black
background) will have the (Italian) errors highlighted. At that stage the
text may then be deselected and the spellchecker opened which will then be
found to be in the desired (Italian) language and work as expected.

The 'detect language automatically' function does not appear to work,
requiring language selection as above if a new document in English(default)
has -in the interim- been opened.

I thought it might be more automatic than it is, functioning just like the
default language spellchecker, that begins as soon as the document is
opened.

So I have it working now, but it is something of a palaver if languages are
being switched frequently, and I may have some difficulty explaining it to
the rest of my language class.

Is this mode of operation what you would have expected?

Roger R


"Terry Farrell" <terryfarrell@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Guilty. I didn't read it fully as normally this question pops up when the
user hasn't got the Language pack!

But having now read the rest of the thread...

After installing the language pack through add/remove programs, I still
think you need to go to the Office Language Setting utility under Office
Tools to actually add Italian (and whichever other languages you need).
Otherwise they are available but not installed.

Terry


"Roger R" <d-e-c-o-d-e-r@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Very quick. Now try reading it again.

"I needed Italian so have additionally installed Proofing Tools 2003"

Proofing Tools 2003 contains the spelling and grammer proofing tools for
50 languages.

Roger R


"Terry Farrell" <terryfarrell@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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You need to purchase the Office language pack from a Microsoft Retailer.
As you said, you only get English, French and Spanish out of the box
(this obviously varies depending on your locale).

--
Terry Farrell - MS Word MVP


"Roger R" <d-e-c-o-d-e-r@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I have office 2003 (comes with proofing tools for English, French and
Spanish).

I needed Italian so have additionally installed Proofing Tools 2003.

It does not appear to check my Italian documents for spelling or
grammar.
Where am I going wrong?

Details:
If I open Word 2003 and go: Tools/language/set language
Info box shows Italian above the line break and tickedABC.

If I go:
Control Panel/Add or Remove Programs/Office 2003/Change/Add or remove
Features/Advanced customisation/Office shared features/Proofing Tools.
This shows only the three default English,Spanish,French. If I
further click on Update it does 'something' but doesn't say what, and
afterwards the language set is unchanged.

Open Word and open an Italian document with obvious spelling and
grammar errors nothing happens.
No red or green error signifiers as per a document in English.

Clicking 'check spelling' button produces 'document spell checked ok'.
but clearly it hasn't.

Please advise

Roger R








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