Word 2003 - spell check maxed out?

[mdavison]

I have a client with a 400+ page document. The "display spelling errors as I
type" tool has ceased to dispay the red squiggly lines. At one point he
reported a message to the effect of "There are too many errors to report",
but did not send me a screen shot of the message. I am also unclear as to
whether or not he has any service packs loaded.

Has anyone heard of this - too many pages to Spell check?

Thanks in advance.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

This is not uncommon in long documents containing many names, and it may be
more common if you have less RAM or a smaller hard drive (less room for Word
to swing the cat). You can still spell-check manually, but "Check spelling
as you type" is turned off. I usually deal with this problem by some
combination of (a) adding words to the custom dictionary and (b) applying a
"no proofing" style to other words or paragraphs. For more on this, see
http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/MasterSpellCheck.htm#ExemptingText. For
instructions on creating a character style, see the first part of
http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/StyleRef.htm

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org