Re: Spell check does not work in Word 2007

You were told wrong. There is a spell checker in Word 2007, and it works for
most people. It doesn't work for a small number of people, usually because
of misconfiguration (often a wrong language setting), a registry problem
such as Herb discussed, or a badly written add-in.

Further, the spell checkers from previous versions of Word won't work --
each one is version-specific, and you never could mix & match them.

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witsend2004 wrote:
I was told that there is NO spell checker in Word 2007. I was also
told to transfer a version of spell checker from a previous Word
program, such as Word 2000.

"Ryan" wrote:

I deleted the registry key and it was rebuilt as "Update Complete".
The spell check still doesnt work. Did i delete the incorrect reg
key?

Thanks

"Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote:

If you delete the correct registry key, there's no problem. Word
will automatically create a new one the next time Word is launched.
If you're concerned that deleting is too harsh, you can rename the
existing data key (e.g., as DataX), see if the new one Word creates
works for you, and then delete the DataX one once you're sure a)
the solution worked and b) you renamed the correct one. By
renaming, you always have the option of renaming it back to Data if
need be.

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"J." <J.@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:32D61D5B-DB4C-41C3-8CB6-5865F75B550D@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Ive bee having the same problems. I was just wondering, if I
delete the registry key, will it affect my computer or cause any
harm? I am very wary of
doing this sort of thing, as Ive heard it can lead to problems.
Please can
you tell me if this will do any harm? I really want to get my Word
2007 to do
spell check again.

Thanks,
J.

"Beth Melton" wrote:

Does spell check work at all? If you press F7 to start Spell
check does it
work? If so then is the Microsoft Office Button in the upper left
corner flashing orange? If so click the button and then click
back in the document.
There's a minor bug in the check spelling as you type feature, if
you don't
click the Microsoft Office Button it doesn't function. (If I
hadn't had the
opportunity to experience this for myself I wouldn't believe it.
<grin>)

If spell check does not work at all, see if the following
corrects the issue:
- Exit all Office applicaitons
- Go to Start/Run
- Type: regedit and click OK
- In the Registry, click the plus (+) next to HKEY_CURRENT_USER
- Click the plus (+) next to Software
- Do the same for the following, (click the + next to) Microsoft,
Shared Tools, Proofing Tools, 1.0, and Override
- Cliik en-US (to select the key)
- From the File menu, click Export. Provide any file name and
location for
the key to make a backup copy of it (You can skip this step if
you want since this key is self-repairing - a new one will be
generated automatically)
- From the Edit menu, click Delete
- Exit the Registry and see if your spell check works

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"Kristin" <Kristin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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My colleague has the same problem. The words don't show with a
squiggly
red
line that they are misspelled, though they clearly are.
Language is English.
We tried changing to French (where the squiggly lines do show up
because
the
words aren't in French) and then back to English. We force a
respell and
it
still doesn't catch them. The box to "Not check these words" is
not checked.

Any ideas?

"Dee" wrote:

Cindy,

Tried all your suggestions below before I actually read your
last post.
Langauge is English and bottom two check boxes are indeed
cleared (always
have been). This seems more insidious than just Word 2007 since
I can't
get
PowerPoint 2007 to spell check either. I think I may post on the
Office
discussion group as well. Is there a bug in your opinion?
--
-Dee


"Cindy M." wrote:

Hi =?Utf-8?B?RGVl?=,

Well, I did find out the status bar (where and what it is),
but "Language" is
checked but no indication of what language is displayed.

Turn Language off and on, watching in the Status bar to see
what disappears/reappears. What do you see on that thing?

If you click it, the Set Language dialog box should appear. The
language of the
selected text should be highlighted. What is it?

Are either of the two checkboxes at the bottom activated? Which
one(s)?

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17
2005)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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