Threads Replies Last Post 7 Pages: 1  2  3  4  5  6  7   FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions - proofing - please read before 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 14.05.2006 22:35:09 default dictionary setting will not stay Hi: I have MS Office 2003, when I installed it everything worked fine. Now, however, when I use it, the spell checker and such always seems to to be locking in on Spanish. Everytime I reset the language to default to English U.S., it will work for a little while, but then all of a sudden, with in the same docuement, it will revert back to spanish. I am wondering if this is somethin... 2 12.05.2006 10:32:15 Microsoft Word 2003 French grammar checker not as good as Word 98/2000? Hi, One of users in our organization is complaining that the French grammar checking feature in Word 2003 is not as good as it used to be in Word 98 and Word 2000. Is it true? She thinks that Word 2003 doesn't pick up the obvious french grammatical errors. In the older versions the grammar checker would pick up on lack of agreement between/among verbs in the same sentence or even paragrap... 2 10.05.2006 10:00:17 "Ignore original message text in reply or forward" fails with Word as email editor According to http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HP052430881033.aspx, the "Ignore original message text in reply or forward" applies to "both Outlook and Microsoft Word editors". However, in using MS Word 2003 as the email editor for MS Outlook 2003, I'm finding that the entire message is spell checked when the original message is included in a reply. I don't have the setting sele... 1 09.05.2006 16:00:53 My spell check doesn't work. I'm running a standalone PC with the following: - MS XP Pro, SP2 - MS Word 2002, SP3 Spell check used to work and highlight misspellings with a wavy red underline. Then spell check suddenly stopped working. I wasn't making any changes to my PC or to Word at the time that spell check stopped working. Now Word does not flag misspelled words as I type, and if I press F7, Word finds no e... 11 07.05.2006 21:28:25 Copy & Paste Im trying to copy and paste misc stuff onto WP and my response tells me... Cope exceeds the size limit into the word processor. I get this message when I try to transfer one word. My margins are Left: 0.7" Right: 0.7"... 1 07.05.2006 12:52:01 Grammar and capitalisation Hi, there I have asked this question before, but lost contact, so will try again I'm having trouble with the grammar check and capitalisation. Every time I make a list, with the words starting in lower case, it underlines them green as if there is a grammar error. I have turned off check capitalisation in the grammar preferences, yet it still checks for them. Also when I select ignore a... 3 06.05.2006 07:36:50 spell checker language change Is there any way of adding a german grammar and spellchecker to my version of word? Can it be downloaded or is it simply a case of buying Word in German? Thanks ... 2 01.05.2006 16:12:10 Virus has attaked office word and outlool seem to have been infected with some kind of virus that causes spell checker to change to US English all the time. Have tried all kinds of cures, including switching off aoutodetect language. Is this virus likly to infect anything else Virus checker can not find anything have tried reistalling office, but infections still creeps back in. this virus only seems to effect mic... 3 29.04.2006 15:32:40 Spell checker - non functioning I am running word 2000 through wortks suite on an Windows Xp format. The auto correct and spell check functions do not appear to be working at all, patently incorrect words are not detected nor grammatical errors either. This is driving my daughter to distraction as she carries on with her project work, any ideas?... 3 27.04.2006 19:21:03 spell checker I am using Word 2000 and for some reason the spell check does not recognise the word "hsa" as incorrect, it should be "has" Every other word appears to be checked correctly. I have tired to research this but simply got confused. Any guidance would really be appreciated thank you ... 6 26.04.2006 18:10:03 Spell Checker - no dialogue box appears Hello all, I've got this occasional problem using the following: MS Word - 2003 version XP Prof SP 2 Occasionally when using spell checker an error occurs when using it. I press the icon and a word is highlighted as it is spelt wrong, but no dialogue box appears to make a spelling suggestion. If the document is closed and restarted it works fine. Has anyone come across this before... 1 25.04.2006 08:33:02 FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions - proofing - please read before posting - unofficial April posting FAQ = Frequently Asked Questions - unofficial - proofing This FAQ is posted weekly.- more or less 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 Reading these articles will help you get a quick and meaningfu... 3 23.04.2006 23:24:42 Word 2000 spell check issues after installing Project 2002 I have been running Office 2000 standard in english with a swedish spell check without any problems. After I installed Project 2002 I get the following message whenever I check a swedish document (no problems with English documents): Word cannot find the spelling file mssp3SW.dll or mssp232.dll for Swedsih (Sweden). These two dll files are nowhere on my computer, but I believe they come ... 2 20.04.2006 13:36:50 for sale: internetDotComs.com domain for sale: internetdotcoms.com http://www.afternic.com/name.php?id=11866440 ... 1 16.04.2006 13:45:31 Autocorrect help please I would like to automatically replace some of my old fashioned typing style with a more up to date typing style, but no matter how hard I try to improve my typing, I cannot always get it right! I learnt to type on a typewriter, and my teacher taught me to always press the space bar twice after a full stop (aka a period). I happily enter a single space after a comma - ", " but cannot retra... 3 11.04.2006 06:09:42 spell check is disabled after mail-merge I'm working with a database application which uses MS Word and word documents for reports. If I open Word directly (just normal word-processing), everything works fine, and spelling is checked automatically. If I go into Word via this database application, the resulting document does not check spelling. You need to highlight the entire document, select a language, and finally it will... 2 09.04.2006 17:32:39 Keep Thesaurus Active? Is there anyway to keep the Thesaurus active despite closing and reopening word? -- Rikk Flohr gallery: www.fleetingglimpse.com consulting: www.fleetingglimpse.net blog: http://spaces.msn.com/members/fleetingglimpse/ ... 2 09.04.2006 17:32:39 multi-language Spell checker in Office 2000 Hi, I am having problems with Word and Office 2000. I need to be able to spell check in Italian. I have installed Office 2000 sp3, Language pack and the Italian Grammar update. After a reboot, Word displayed abc next to Italian in the set language option of the menu bar. However, when spell checking the document, it is only picking up the grammar, and not the typos. I have ev... 3 09.04.2006 17:32:38 Set language is grayed out in MS Word 2002. I am using s form from work and it does not allow spell checker to correct misspelled words. If I go into Tools > Language > the "Set Language" is grayed out. Can this be changed so I can use the form to automatically correct misspelled words?... 2 09.04.2006 17:32:37 where does dictionary live? Hi ....all of a sudden both my English and french dictionaries, i.e. the spell checkers, disappeared and I simply cannot even find them in any folder. No, nothing was deleted and I find absolutely nothing on this problem on the WWW. Pleasae, please, please can anyone tell me how I can restore my spell checkers (this is why I was looking for the dictionaries, to somehow hook up to the... 3 06.04.2006 09:36:09 Spell Check Protected Form with Bookmarks I have a form with text fields in it. The form is protected. I also have bookmarks with matching referance fields. The bookmarks are set to calculate upon exit. The problem is as soon as the user tabs through one of the fields it sets the Language setting back to do not spell check for the whole document. I have tried the macro on the MVP website and it does not work because the text fie... 13 03.04.2006 03:00:58 Forms vs SpellCheck I have read the cited collaborated instruction "How toenable the spellchecker in a protected document and very much impressed with its thoroughness. This question is based on the document being a form with form fields and text on the same line so the division of protected/unprotected areas by continuous page breaks is not the answer. I tried to write a macro assigned to a button which w... 7 30.03.2006 14:01:58 Spell Check Changes Window View I recently made some changes to my Normal template and now whenever I spell check a document while in Web Layout view the view switches to Page Layout view upon completion of spell check. Even after removing styles and AutoText from the Normal template it continues. If I switch back to a clean backup copy of the Normal template hte problem goes away. Very frustrating, and I can't seem... 1 27.03.2006 18:59:01 FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions - proofing - Please read before posting - unofficial March posting FAQ = Frequently Asked Questions - unofficial - proofing This FAQ is posted weekly.- more or less 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 Reading these articles will help you get a quick and meaningfu... 4 27.03.2006 12:47:01 7 Pages: 1  2  3  4  5  6  7