Spell check won't work in particular documents Bill Angell 13.09.2006 04:32:02 My wife and I both use Word 2003. We have our Word programs set up to spell check as we type and to auto correct. Spell checking and auto correct work on all new documents. Everything worked well until we discovered this problem. One of my wife's students pointed out that a word document that my wife created using a copy and paste technique from an older document would not allow any spell checking. Neither the auto correct, auto spell check or even choosing Spelling and Grammar would find a misspelled word that had been added. We merely get the message "The Spelling and Grammar check is complete" but none of the misspelled words like "spel" and "adn" were caught. It does the same thing with that document on my computer and the technical support computer gurus at the university are stumpped as well. It seems to not make sense since spell checking is a function of the Word program and not usually of the document. I don't know how to post an attachment but if requested, I will be glad to e-mail the document that can't be spell checked. I need to know the following: 1. How do we correct this and similar documents that somehow have spell checking disabled? 2. How do we prevent creating files that cannot be spell checked in the first place? I get a lot of junk e-mail at my posted e-mail address so please title your e-mails "Send word attachment" and I will gladly reply with a copy of the offending document. I appreciate any and all comments. We have the latest Windows updates and Word updates. My wife uses McAffee virus protection and I use Norton Internet Security. Thanks, -- Bill billangell[ at ]hotmail.com

Re: Spell check won't work in particular documents Cindy M. <C.Meister-C[ at ]hispeed.ch> 13.09.2006 10:07:04 Hi =?Utf-8?B?QmlsbCBBbmdlbGw=?=, [Quoted Text] > One of my wife's students pointed out that a word document that my wife > created using a copy and paste technique from an older document would not > allow any spell checking. Neither the auto correct, auto spell check or even > choosing Spelling and Grammar would find a misspelled word that had been > added. We merely get the message "The Spelling and Grammar check is > complete" but none of the misspelled words like "spel" and "adn" were caught. > In the Tips section of my website you'll find an article that describes how language formatting (spelling is based on language) functions in Word. It's a rather complex process... In this particular case, I suggest you Ctrl+A (select all the text), then go to Tools/Language/Set language. Make sure the language you want to spell check is marked AND that the "Do not check spelling or grammar" checkbox is NOT activated. Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-)

Re: Spell check won't work in particular documents Bill Angell 14.09.2006 05:08:02 Cindy, Your answer was right on target and I rate it a 10 out of a possible 10. I indicated that the answer did answer the question but I couldn't figure out how to actually "rate" your response as I am a novice at newsgroups. I have saved both of the web sites you provided as favorites to help resolve any other problems we might encounter. Thanks, Bill -- Bill billangell[ at ]hotmail.com "Cindy M." wrote: [Quoted Text] > Hi =?Utf-8?B?QmlsbCBBbmdlbGw=?=, > > > One of my wife's students pointed out that a word document that my wife > > created using a copy and paste technique from an older document would not > > allow any spell checking. Neither the auto correct, auto spell check or even > > choosing Spelling and Grammar would find a misspelled word that had been > > added. We merely get the message "The Spelling and Grammar check is > > complete" but none of the misspelled words like "spel" and "adn" were caught. > > > In the Tips section of my website you'll find an article that describes how > language formatting (spelling is based on language) functions in Word. It's a > rather complex process... > > In this particular case, I suggest you Ctrl+A (select all the text), then go to > Tools/Language/Set language. Make sure the language you want to spell check is > marked AND that the "Do not check spelling or grammar" checkbox is NOT > activated. > > Cindy Meister > INTER-Solutions, Switzerland > http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005) > http://www.word.mvps.org > > This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply > in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) > >

Re: Spell check won't work in particular documents Cindy M. <C.Meister-C[ at ]hispeed.ch> 14.09.2006 14:49:02 Hi =?Utf-8?B?QmlsbCBBbmdlbGw=?=, [Quoted Text] > I indicated that the answer did answer the question but I couldn't figure > out how to actually "rate" your response as I am a novice at newsgroups. > Thanks for letting me know the suggestion worked :-) And don't worry about figuring out the "ratings" - I don't. Important thing is that the information helped! (FWIW I don't know how or where "ratings" can be done in the web interface. I use software that lets me download all the messages onto my computer. I read/answer them off-line, in an application that's a lot faster than using a browser, then upload them in batches.) Cindy Meister