Threads Replies Last Post 7 Pages: 1  2  3  4  5  6  7   how to turn spelling backup I received a word document from someone who had turn off spell/grammar check on the document. how do turn back up spell-check? I am using office 2003. hate to copy as text on a new document to check and search to correct ... 2 28.07.2006 20:43:30 spellchecker I am running an English version of Office 2000, but as I often write in German I need a German spellchecker. Where do I find one? ... 4 28.07.2006 20:51:31 FAQ - Frequently Aske Questions - proofing - please read before posting - unofficial July posting FAQ = Frequently Asked Questions - unofficial - proofing This FAQ is posted every ten days or so. Please save yourself some time by reading it before posting to the news group. --- BEFORE POSTING ANYTHING PLEASE READ THESE --- http://www.mvps.org/word/FindHelp/Posting.htm http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm http://users.tpg.com.au/bzyhjr/liszt.html Reading these arti... 3 26.07.2006 15:16:19 Word XP spell check issue with fill-in fields I am in Desktop support. Our computers are WinXP SP2 and we have Office XP Pro SP3 installed. One user had a weird spell check issue that it kept changing to french in the middle of a spell check. We are in the US, and the default language is English US. I ended up uninstalling and reinstalling to resolve it. (I wish I had looked here first for a similar post with US vs UK english.). ... 3 25.07.2006 16:11:01 Ignore Once missing in spell check When I perform a spell check (F7) and Word detects a miss-spelled word the “Spelling and Grammar” box opens. Where the “Ignore Once” button normally is, the “Undo Edit” is displayed instead. If I click on the “Undo Edit” button, it will then change to “Ignore Once” and I can proceed as normal. ... 3 24.07.2006 15:14:03 remove bad words from dictionary Somehow, my Word dictionary thinks "Oaklahoma`" is a word. I have checked the custom.dic file, and learned from help how to make an .exc file, but I am very interested in a global search to remove "`" or any other thing that upsets my applecart. Any advice would be gratefully appreciated. -- Regards, P D Sterling... 3 22.07.2006 17:11:10 FRENCH SPELLING & GRAMMAR CHECK - MISSING CAB FILES I have been prompted (so far) for PR103678.CAB & ZD561402.CAB. When I insert my Office 2003 disk they cannot be found so I cannot install the French Spelling & Grammar check. Any ideas?... 4 21.07.2006 13:33:52 Repost: Different colour during spell check Hi all. Most of my question have been well answered here (thanks Jay, Cindy et al) but one remains. *Sometimes* during a spell check, where queried spellings usually show up in red (and grammatical ones in green), the queried spelling shows up in *black* for part of the document. Why, and what does this mean? (Word 2000) ... 8 21.07.2006 13:33:51 'Word cannot find the grammar file msgr??32.dll for .' Errror Hi all, I'm getting the above error ('Word cannot find the grammar file msgr??32.dll for .') when i try and run spell check. I'm not the greatest at solving things when stuff goes wrong so would be appreciate any help on this :-) I have tried unistalling and reinstalling but still get the same error. It is office 2000 Thanks in advance Dave... 6 19.07.2006 23:58:07 Odd spelling effect Hi All Word 2000, today's puzzle: When I edit a document that contains eg foreign names, I frequently 'ignore' rather than 'add', so the custom dictionary doesn't get changed. But when I've passed through the document once, it seems that *sometimes* on the next F7 the system 'knows' I've ignored the given words and now doesn't find them. That's not too puzzling, but there's more! If... 4 16.07.2006 01:42:58 default language - spell checker All my Word documents are in UK English. I have US English on the language bar as well to enable me to use the keyboard symbols easily but spell checking in Word is in UK English. Now I have downloaded some web pages and want to print some of the information contained in them. I want to copy the pages into Word and then amend the text and delete some of the graphics. The problem I have ... 5 11.07.2006 19:00:28 Letter i becomes a number one..Help please Win XP Pro SP1 Office 2003 Now when I use a word document and type an "i" I end up with the number 1, so if I type excel I get...exce1. I have checked word settings, auto correct and language.... and all appear OK. I have only noticed it very recently but have not changed any settings to my knowledge!!! TIA... 2 11.07.2006 02:46:00 Strange spelling message Hi all I've been advised by a very respected member of the word.newusers ng to post this question here. Apologies to anyone who may have read it already. I'm using Word 2000 on XP (though this also happened on 98SE). On *some* documents only, when I spell check (F7) I'm getting the message 'Word cannot find the spelling file MSSSpell32.dll. I also get a similar message about a gramma... 11 10.07.2006 18:13:12 One language - not enough! I have to spell-check a large book written in 2 languages (some 30% to 70%). The problem is, that words in those 2 languages are very intertwined (it's a grammar book), plus they are very often wrong marked, as belonging to the other language. So what I get, when trying to spell-check the document, is that Word underlines not only misspelled words from language "a", but also correct ones f... 9 10.07.2006 13:59:24 Spell check changes from red to black When I spell check documents I usually get words highlighted in red that Word thinks are wrong, and grammar and other suggestions in green. But for some documents the badly spelt words come up in black and not red. What is the reason? ... 2 10.07.2006 12:12:35 Backup spell checker Hi, I've put together a simple spell checker which is at http://www.wordcheck.net Thought it might be of use if there is a problem with the in-built spell-checker - and it's completely free to use. Cheers, Kevin... 1 10.07.2006 11:10:14 Strange symbol As a bit of light hearted relief, had a strange symbol on the screen ` I think it was. No help from help. What was going on. Then it *moved*. Insect on screen... And here was I going to buy some special correction fluid for it... ... 3 09.07.2006 21:32:09 How do I install a language spell check? I have all the .lex files for different languages. When I tried installing Portuguese (changing the language setting in word), it asked for a certain dll file. I downloaded the right one from a free-share site (the one I had was a different dll file), but Word still claims it cannot find it. I placed it in C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Proof Am I doing anything wrong? (by the... 2 09.07.2006 06:50:02 German LEX Files Hi! I have Office XP Standard Edition (English) and I want to have a spell checker feature but the language for the spell checker will be German. Is there a way that I can have a sort of dictionary for German Language even if I have an english version of Office? Please advise. regards, Me ... 4 05.07.2006 09:36:42 Free Proofing Tools for German Language Hi! I have received an information that proofing tools can help me use a spell checker for german language even though I am using MS Office XP English version. Is there any free proofing tools that i may use? Me ... 1 05.07.2006 00:01:32 I dont want it to correct this Hello I live in Ashtead which is in Surrey in England. When i type Ashtead in word it automatically corrects the capital A to be lowercase so it reads ashtead.. I dont want it to do this, how do i stop it please. Thanks If i type Ash and tead and then delete the space it still does it! ... 2 04.07.2006 17:44:28 Activating Check spelling in WOrd 2003 (really urgent) Hi everone, I have been browsing for ages looking for somewhere that could tell me how to activate the check spelling in word 2003. Basically, on my office I have spanish, french, portugues (Brasil) auto check spelling, so anything I write it can tell me I did wrong... however, I just added a new language (portugues portugal), but it is not set as check spelling. I already added in cont... 4 02.07.2006 16:23:01 Stuck on French I have a particular document, in English, that insists on being spell checked in French. The problem is specific to this document. When I look at Tools | Language | Set Language, and scroll down I see all the French and all the Spanish variations checked. However English is the Default language (at the top of the languages list). When I enable or start Spell check the dictionary and prom... 2 02.07.2006 16:23:01 Word 2003 Auto Correct/Spell Check Not defined I'm using Word 2003 with Canadian English set as my default yet my Auto Correct defaults to English (U.K). ?? Any idea why that is? Also sometimes Outlook 2003 uses English (U.S.) instead of (Canada). Why does Word use different languages when I want only English (Canada)? Thanks in advance for any and all responses. -- TT ... 2 02.07.2006 16:23:00 word 2007: german post-reform-rules Hi experts! I have a problem with word 2007 and spelling. I have installed the english version updating my office 2003 pro with ptoofing tools to office 2007 beta2. I want to use the german-post-reform-rules which I have chosen in the word-options - proofing dialogue. I am sorry but this does not work. Word still suggests the pre-reform rules and marks my post-reform-writing as failure... 4 26.06.2006 12:53:34 7 Pages: 1  2  3  4  5  6  7