Threads Replies Last Post 7 Pages: 1  2  3  4  5  6  7   Word 2000 Dictionary changing from UK to US If you copy text from Outlook 2000 into Word 2000 the dictionary changes to US from UK, anyway this can be stopped or is this just a feature of Office 2000?... 1 02.06.2006 16:13:02 FAQ - Frequently Aske Questions - proofing - please read before posting - unofficial June 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... 2 23.06.2006 18:36:23 Protecting a Custom Dictionary I am developing a template to be used by project teams. One of challenges I have run into is with the custom dictionary that I created as part of this project. Is it possible to have a custom dictionary that the user cannot make any additions/deletions?... 2 21.06.2006 15:38:15 Sincerely or Faithfully Hi, Its took me a long time to find the same information on when to use 'Yours sincerely' or 'Yours faithfully'. I just wondering if anyone knows why the 'Professional Letter' template in word uses 'Dear Sir or Madam'........'Yours sincerely'. Is this wrong? Getting far too confused. Thanks... 3 21.06.2006 11:54:02 German and Italian Proofing tools for XP 2003 worst than for Offic I'm an IT consultant. One of my customer was using MS Office 2000 (German) with the four available proofing tools (German,French,Italian and English) installed. Everything was fine. Lastely (and typically under the pressure of other external users working with the latest MS Office versions), they wanted to "upgrade" to Office XP 2003. Well, I did the update... and now, a simple and stup... 1 20.06.2006 10:14:02 spell check and auto correct do not work on a specific document I have a document that I received from another user, and am currently making changes to it. The auto correct and spell checker do not catch errors. I checked to make sure that the correct options for auto correct and spell checker are turned on, and tested in a new document that they do work. I believe that somehow the auto correct and spell check options are not functioning in this d... 4 15.06.2006 20:57:26 Spell check question I have a word document that we have created as a form. The fields are locked and you can type in them. This form has two pages and we use it as an employee evaluation form. This form can be on our server or on a supervisor's pc. Our problem is that when we try to use the spell check. We have found that it does not work. Also our tech guy has created a macro for spell check and it works... 4 15.06.2006 14:35:15 Speller not in the registry? Hi, I installed the Proofing Tools 2003 on my XP. Now supposing I'd like to move a speller lexicon file to some other place than the default directory in C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Proof I thought this would be easy, just putting the path in the registry. But it turns out that even though there are registy keys for the grammar checkers, like this one for Russian:... 1 15.06.2006 13:36:27 English When I type 'organization' in a Word document and the language is set to UK English (English) rather than US English (American) the spell checker doesn't recognise that it's spelt wrong. Is this normal or can I change the behaviour?... 8 14.06.2006 00:16:50 create a single dictionary applying to all docs Word seems to create a new dictionary for each document by default. I'm writing a technical book and this is driving me crazy because I have to add all these terms repeatedly with each new chapter. What am I doing wrong? S. ... 2 12.06.2006 16:10:15 Trim Trailing Spaces Hi, I have 2 Q's. 1. Does Word 2002 support trimming trailing spaces? 2. Does Word 2002 support conversation of double spaces to single space. (e.g., 2 spaces after period to 1 space) Regards, Norman Zhang... 7 09.06.2006 02:07:54 Autocorrect out of control I have selfstanding Word 2000 running on Spanish language WinXP-sp2. Spelling and Grammar are both disabled, and for years I’ve had no trouble. But lately my writing is interrupted constantly by notices telling me that Autocorrect is not installed; that the route of access to Word 2000 cannot be found; that I have errors 1603 y 1706. It asks for the original disc again, but that proces... 1 05.06.2006 05:29:01 permanent disable spell and grammar check Can anyone help me find a way to permanently disable Spell & grammar check in word xp (2002). I would like that students taking language tests in MS Word XP (2002) not access the spell & grammer checker and not be able to turn it on or install it. Thanks ... 1 03.06.2006 17:23:04 medical spell check Is there a medical spell check that can be added to the current english dictionary/thesaurus? commercial? shareware?? thanks, raul rego ... 2 03.06.2006 13:32:00 Office beta 2 word problem please help How can I install spell checker in my national language? I have Polish in my mind. ... 2 03.06.2006 10:43:18 Office 2007 Beta 2: Bug in Spell Checker in Spanish The spell checker dialog has a bug when it finds a misspelled word in Spanish. The "Ignore All" option does not work, it is ignored and stays at the same place. One has to use the "Ignore Once" option several times. This does not happen in English, only in Spanish, and it is consistent (happens with any document or sending an email, for example)... 2 01.06.2006 18:57:49 spell check error test................? ... 1 28.05.2006 13:12:13 WORD 2003: Thesaurus question Hi I just noticed that, when using thesaurus, it tries to access office online. Is there a way to disable this, and to use the local thesaurus as default? Thanks Kory... 3 24.05.2006 23:30:01 Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level Is anyone familiar with the Show Readability Statistics option in Word? When it's enabled, after a spell/grammar check, it pops up a window of statistics for the supposed readability of the passage or document, based on certain formulas: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290943/en-us I'm experiencing a problem with the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level score. Different computers with diff... 1 24.05.2006 15:37:21 Preventing Office defaulting back to US Dictionary We have setup Office2003 with UK Regional settings, UK sytem locale and run Office2003 Language Settings to set the default language as UK. The US keyboard settings have been removed. The Word2003 Normal.dot template has been saved and checked to ensure its default is English UK. All seems well. The date appears in UK format and words like centre and neighbour are not underlined. Howe... 1 23.05.2006 11:04:01 spell checker How could I add a word to the Word spell checker? Thank you, Barry Karas P.S. I bought my computer during 2004. ... 2 23.05.2006 01:09:59 Microsoft Office Word can't open the thesaurus. I am running Word 2003 on a new Dell desktop with Win XP Pro SP2. Every time I try to use the thesaurus from Word or Outlook (or any Office component) I get the error message: "Microsoft Office Word can't open the thesaurus. Microsoft Office Word cannot install the necessary files due to Windows Installer error 1606. Feature ID not registered." I've uninstalled and reinstalled Office... 2 21.05.2006 18:24:05 Flopping back to Japanese input mode So far Microsoft Word XP seems to be the only program affected, and only a new computer that I received a few months ago. Not a serious problem, but annoying, and I haven't been able to observe any definitive pattern. Prior to this, when working in English, the computer would stay in the English input mode. Now it has a tendency to flop back into Japanese input mode. There are several trig... 8 17.05.2006 17:52:06 Word cannot find the spelling file mssp3C2.dll or mssp232.dll for Czech This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0059_01C65E73.F048A320 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I have found and downloaded mssp3C2.dll from the Web and saved it in = C:/Program Files/Common Files/Microsoft Shared/Proof but I still get = the same message when trying to spell the Czech text. What els... 8 16.05.2006 17:50:00 Yet another spell check that won't work. I've read through plenty (34567890) of the posts here and tried some of the fixes, and yes I've tried the help menu, but I still haven't been able to successfully fixed this issue. In an installation of Office XP small business, the Word's spell checker is not working 'most' of the time. Sometimes the spell check does work, but inevitably the spell check goes bact to not working. I have fo... 6 16.05.2006 15:29:13 7 Pages: 1  2  3  4  5  6  7