spelling and grammar

[Guest]

I am a new user of Office XP (Word XP) and Windows XP, but I am very familiar with older versions of Word as well as Mac versions of Word
Recently while putting together a long document, part way through the red and green wavy lines disappeared. Under tools/options/spelling and grammar, the proper boxes were checked, but no lines were present. I also checked tools/language/set language and again the box saying not to check was not checked. I eventually got the lines to show up by doing a spelling and grammar check after the fact
Now a new problem. My new documents will not show the lines until I type a few letters and a do a manual selection of grammar and spelling check
Should I uninstall and reinstall Office? Will this help? If I do, do I need to re-activate it
Thanks for any help you can give
RW CA

 

[Andre Da Costa]

Well, you have to grammatical errors in your document for the wavy lines to
appear. But you do want them to appear when necessary, make sure the option
is turned on. Go to Tools > Options > Spelling & Grammar (tab), make sure
the following options are checked:

Spelling:
Check spelling as you type

Grammar:
Check grammar as you type

HTH's

Andre Da Costa
Jamaica W.I.

I am a new user of Office XP (Word XP) and Windows XP, but I am very

familiar with older versions of Word as well as Mac versions of Word.

Recently while putting together a long document, part way through the red

and green wavy lines disappeared. Under tools/options/spelling and grammar,
the proper boxes were checked, but no lines were present. I also checked
tools/language/set language and again the box saying not to check was not
checked. I eventually got the lines to show up by doing a spelling and
grammar check after the fact.

Now a new problem. My new documents will not show the lines until I type

a few letters and a do a manual selection of grammar and spelling check.

 

[Guest]

----- Andre Da Costa wrote: ----

Well, you have to grammatical errors in your document for the wavy lines t
appear. But you do want them to appear when necessary, make sure the optio
is turned on. Go to Tools > Options > Spelling & Grammar (tab), make sur
the following options are checked

Spelling
Check spelling as you typ

Grammar
Check grammar as you typ

HTH'

Andre Da Cost
Jamaica W.I

I am a new user of Office XP (Word XP) and Windows XP, but I am ver

familiar with older versions of Word as well as Mac versions of Word

Recently while putting together a long document, part way through the re

and green wavy lines disappeared. Under tools/options/spelling and grammar
the proper boxes were checked, but no lines were present. I also checke
tools/language/set language and again the box saying not to check was no
checked. I eventually got the lines to show up by doing a spelling an
grammar check after the fact

Now a new problem. My new documents will not show the lines until I typ

a few letters and a do a manual selection of grammar and spelling check

Should I uninstall and reinstall Office? Will this help? If I do, do need to re-activate it
Thanks for any help you can give
RW C

I have opened new documents with deliberate spelling mistakes e.g. aaaaaa bbbbbb ccccc, and nothing gets marked
The options are turned on under tools/options/spelling and grammar
Thank you. Any other suggestions anyone?

 

[Graham Mayor]

Check the language setting of the text (tools > language). You can only
check spelling when the language matches that of the dictionary.
If the default language has changed - then you need to investigate the
regional settings of Windows and it would probably be a good idea to rename
normal.dot to reset the defaults. Re-installing Word will not help.

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[Guest]

Last night I installed the Office XP Service Pack 3 and everything seems fine so far. Thanks for your help.