Spellchecker not checking documents??

[Guest]

My parents recently purchased a new PC with Word 2003. I have been trying
for ages to work out why the spellchecker is not working wondered if someone
could help.

I have checked all the usual settings and they are all ok - they are exactly
the same as on my PC. However no matter what you spell or how the
spellchecker reports no errors. I have checked the thesaurus and that is
working ok. I have tried to uninstall and reinstall Word to no avail.

Thing is if you create a document on their PC and transfer it to any other
machine the spelling will not work for that document ont he other machine
either???

I have never seen this before and I am lost as to what to try next.

 

[Graham Mayor]

Tools > options > spelling & grammar - check 'check spelling as you type'
and uncheck 'hide spelling errors'

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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Select all the text in a document and go to Tools | Language | Set Language.
Make sure that the correct language is selected and that "Do not check
spelling or grammar" is not checked. Then click the Default... button to
make this the default for new documents. If you continue to experience
problems, make sure that the language set in Windows (Regional Options) is
the same as that selected for Word/Office; see
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister/LangFmt.htm

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

"Hide spelling errors" is a per-document setting and should not affect all
new documents (unless it's somehow selected in Normal.dot); in any case, it
only hides the wavy lines; F7 will still run a spelling check. Disabling
"Check spelling as you type" would also not prevent the spelling checker
from detecting errors when it is run explicitly. The fact that an explicit
spelling check fails on other machines as well suggests that the text is
formatted with the wrong language or as "Do not check spelling or grammar."

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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