I have this problem all the time with my long document. It is a usermanual
for a software product, running about 450 pages with graphics. I am
constantly finding that spell-checking has turned itself off, even after I
select the whole document and go to Languages and turn it on, as suggested
earlier. I also recently (last few days) noticed that inserting a cross
reference just inserted nothing after I clicked the Insert button. Along
these lines, Word doesn't display my index. I thought I didn't have one but
when I printed the document, it was there.
My first thought is that I am low on memory. My Windows XP machine's Task
Manager says:
Physical Memory (K)
Total 65430
Available 377200 about
System cache 423720
Kernel Memory (K)
Total 54916
Paged 36252
Nonpaged 18688
In the Control Panel, System Properties, Advanced tab, click the Settings
button for Performance, click the Advanced tab there, I have 958 MB for the
total paging file size for all drives (i.e. virtual memory). My computer
properties says for drive C: I have 40 GB free space. ! (Nice computer I
inherited in this job!)
Does anyone have any ideas about why Word 2003 is acting this way? I've
installed the latest SP1 for Office 2003.