Spell check does not work in Word 2007

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Guest

Recently purchased Office 2007.

I noticed the spell checker does not work. I typed a document and misspelled
every word and spell check did not try to correct one.

Went into word options and verified English (US) was primary language.

Any suggestions as what to do or is the just a 2007 bug??
 
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Cindy M.

Hi =?Utf-8?B?S2V2aW4=?=,
Recently purchased Office 2007.

I noticed the spell checker does not work. I typed a document and misspelled
every word and spell check did not try to correct one.

Went into word options and verified English (US) was primary language.
Click to expand...
But are you sure the text you typed is formatted in that language? When you
click in a misspelled word, look down at the status bar and check the language.
(If you don't see the language, right-click the status bar and choose to add
that from the list.)

If it shows English, what happens if you press F7 to force a spell check?

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

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G

Guest

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.
 
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Cindy M.

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.
Click to expand...
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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G

Guest

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?
 
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Patrick Schmid [MVP]

You seem to have a second thread about this problem in office.misc.
Please don't multipost like this.

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G

Guest

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?
 
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Beth Melton

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

Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for
assistance by email cannot be acknowledged.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Beth Melton
Microsoft Office MVP

Coauthor of Word 2007 Inside Out:
http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/books/9801.aspx#AboutTheBook

Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word
TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/
MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/
 
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Guest

That worked (the regedit, not the orange flashing). Wendy says thank you,
thank you.
The only remaining question is that we had installed a custom medical
dictionary (Stedman's) overlapping and it is not working. Can we just
reinstall it over what we've just done?
Thanks so much for your help (Wendy has been floundering since it broke!).
 
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Beth Melton

I'm glad to hear you have spell check working again. :)

I'm not sure if reinstalling it would work since more than likely it was
created for previous versions of Word and the location for custom
dictionaries changed in Word 2007. Nor am I familiar with Stedman's medical
dictionary, but more than likely it uses a custom dictionary file, it
usually has a .dic extension. Can you find such a file? If so, click the
Microsoft Office Button, click Word Options, and then click Proofing. Click
the Custom Dictionaries button, click Add, and then navigate to the location
of the dictionary.

Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for
assistance by email cannot be acknowledged.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Beth Melton
Microsoft Office MVP

Coauthor of Word 2007 Inside Out:
http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/books/9801.aspx#AboutTheBook

Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word
TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/
MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/
 
G

Guest

hi, i found your message very hopeful for me but then i got to the click +
next to override and that option doesnt exist in my list of things to click
the +, is there any other way of fixing spell check for word 2007? i dont get
the red lines, no mispelled words are recognised, i have checked everything i
can think of to try and fix the problem but still found no solution.
thanx
 
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Beth Melton

If you don't have the Override key then you don't need the Registry fix. Did
you verify your proofing lanuage? If the proofing tools aren't installed for
your proofing language then spell check will not work - you won't see any
red wavy lines. Try clicking the Spelling and Grammar button on the Review
tab. If this is the case then the error message you encounter should provide
more insight to this issue.

Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for
assistance by email cannot be acknowledged.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Beth Melton
Microsoft Office MVP

Coauthor of Word 2007 Inside Out:
http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/books/9801.aspx#AboutTheBook

Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word
TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/
MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/
 
G

Guest

I have the same problem. English US is selected, no squiggly lines a word
like "sdhdgd" is accepted as correct.
 
G

Guest

Did that, reinstalled, reapaired, regedit. green grammer lines sometimes
appear, custom dic set for 1, NO error msg, says spell check is complete even
with words like Yrurhewsd. I reinstalled word 2003 and Word 2003 spell
checker works fine.
 
G

Guest

did regedit... actually whacked the entire proofing tools entry and it
rebuilt, but problem not solved.
 
G

Guest

got it to work, saw advice in another thread, search out all the normal.*
templates and delete them ALL, uninstall and they reinstall... all's well
 
G

Guest

I followed the steps until the override and it seems like there isnt one.
Maybe not in windows vista? In vista, what key should i try and delete to
get it to reset. Thanks for the help.
 
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J.

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.
 
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Herb Tyson [MVP]

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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