Spellchecker

[Jess]

How can I get the Spellchecker to work on installations
where Office is not present, in my Access .mde file?

 

[Rick Brandt]

How can I get the Spellchecker to work on installations
where Office is not present, in my Access .mde file?

You can't. The Spell Checker is part of Office and not distributable.
There might be third party Spell-Check tools you could obtain a license to
distribute, but I'm not familiar with any.

 

[Jess]

Hi again and thanks for your reply.
A different slant on my original question:
If Office IS present without Access, what do I have to do?

Thanks
Jess

 

[Jess]

Hi again and thanks for your reply.
A different slant on my original question:
If Office IS present without Access, what do I have to do?

Thanks
Jess

 

[Rick Brandt]

Hi again and thanks for your reply.
A different slant on my original question:
If Office IS present without Access, what do I have to do?

If they have the *same* version of Office as your Runtime app then you
don't have to do anything. If you include the spellcheck button on a
toolbar or if the user presses <F7> the spell-check will work.

I don't know what happens if your Runtime is a newer version than the
version of Office installed, but I do know that the 97 Runtime cannot make
use of the spell-check from newer versions of Office.

 

[Jess]

Hi again Rick

All my end users use MS Office in one or other of its
flavours, some with and some without MS Access.

If I were able to identify the spellchecker of each Office
Word version would I not be able to install a series of
spellchecker buttons on my toolbar and then just the
applicable one would work at the end user in my mde?

How would I find out which the spellchecker file is which
should be included?

Thanks again for your help
Jess Chaplin

 

[Rick Brandt]

Hi again Rick

All my end users use MS Office in one or other of its
flavours, some with and some without MS Access.

If I were able to identify the spellchecker of each Office
Word version would I not be able to install a series of
spellchecker buttons on my toolbar and then just the
applicable one would work at the end user in my mde?

How would I find out which the spellchecker file is which
should be included?

You might be able to use automation with Late Binding to get spell-check to
work across Office versions. I have never tried that. All I have ever
done is simply include the built in spell-check button on Toolbars. In
that case the button works without any custom programming if the PC has the
same version of Office installed as the version of the Access Runtime being
used and it does not work when the Office version is different.