Threads Replies Last Post 11 Pages: 1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10  11   Word 2007 Spelling and Grammer does not find errors Word 2007 Spelling and Grammar does not find the errors that I know are there. I've selected all the text and clicked ABC and also tried selecting nothing and clicking ABC. In each case Word tells me the check is complete but never indicates ay errors. I've looked under Tools/Word Options/Proofing/ but don't see anything that might be the problem. Nor can I find anywhere one op... 1 12/30/2008 3:08:51 PM Getting rid of a weird character I'm working on some Japanese text that has been transliterated into English. What I received has a chracter that looks like a hyphen with a downward stroke at the end. I believe it is a non-printing character. I can find it in my character map and insert one, but I cannot copy and paste it into the find/replace box. I want to delete all these characters. I believe they represent an accent... 2 12/30/2008 7:25:07 AM Doesn't find errors Microsoft Office Word 2000. I checked under "Options" and it looks like the spelling and grammar checks are not turned off, but when I invoke spell/grammar checker it says the checking is completed but does not find obvious errors. Thanks in advance ... 3 12/23/2008 4:04:54 PM Word 2007 grammar check not finding missing punctuation Word 2007 is not finding missing periods at the end of sentences. Under the Office button - Word Options - Proofing - Grammar, all items, including Punctuation, are checked. I have installed Office 2007 Service Pack 1. This problem is occuring on multiple PCs. Has anyone else noticed this problem? If so, have you found the solution? -- Lynn... 4 12/21/2008 7:01:00 PM Vostro 1000 Greyed Out Spell Check Fix Update your BIOS to the latest supported by Dell. It worked for both of my Vostro 1000's. http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/download.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=gen&releaseid=R175498&SystemID=VOS_N_1000&servicetag=2JG09F1&os=WW1&osl=en&deviceid=15246&devlib=0&typecnt=0&vercnt=4&catid=-1&impid=-1&formatcnt=1&libid=1&fileid=238511... 1 12/15/2008 10:05:34 PM Minimum # of characters I have a user who typed a document that had the following error.... There appear to be n o spelling problems with this sentence Does word not spell check words with spaces in them - or is an individual character not considered a word to the Word spell checker? Thanks for any help... 2 12/12/2008 4:46:42 AM Modifying grammar One of my co-workers is constantly being told she is in error typing things like "several members of the staff are ready to change", where MSW wants to change "are" to "is", interpreting "staff" as singular. How can I tell MSW to allow "staff" to be used as both plural & singular? Thxmuch, F/C ... 2 12/10/2008 10:51:01 PM Dictionary I would like to install a dictionary spell check... 2 12/9/2008 7:29:02 PM missing character from MS Word To Microsoft group (under the group spelling and grammer I have one important file containing some important information in word file. the problem is that from the whole file containing 170 pages the character R & S is automatically removed from the file. I am sending the sample for same and kindly help : – He i not coming Chandigah due to peonal poblem. (actual : He is not coming ... 4 12/7/2008 6:38:40 AM Word 2007 Autocorrect in Group Policy I want to put an Autocorrect exception into Group Policy so that it is applied to all our computers. However, I couldn't see a way to apply this in the User section of GPMC for the specific policy which had Word 2007 settings in it. In this instance I want to be able to put a specific word into the exception list or turn off the setting that automatically accents French text. I couldn... 1 12/4/2008 6:13:38 AM Thesaurus issue :::: Not getting any details for All reference boo Hi, I have an issue with Thesaurus in my PC. When I select a word, right click -> Synonyms -> Select Thesaurus , it displays a pane on the right side. When I click on "All Reference Books", its not displaying anything. Could someone help to fix it.... 1 12/3/2008 12:23:01 PM Spell Checker gone bonkers Dell Vostro 1000 w/ Synaptics touchpad XP SP2 Home Word 2000 Everything was working fine on this computer until today. Out of the blue when I went to spell check a Word doc, the speller stopped on a misspelled word for just a split second, then it would turn from red to black and only the "Undo Edit", "Change", and "Change All" buttons are clickable, but not the "Ignore" or "Ignore ALL" b... 2 11/30/2008 8:16:01 PM sn´t_work. I have a problem with 3 users that have Office 2007 and Windows Vista Business Edition. The Spell check runs well with all languages (including English US, Portuguese(Portugal), Spanish...) but when they select English UK it doesn´t work. This happens in Word 2007 and Outlook 2007. What can i do do solve this situation?... 1 11/20/2008 2:51:02 PM Turning off auto caps I'm using Word 2007 w/ XP. I want to turn off the function that puts a cap after ever period(.). Is the only way to do that is to uncheck AutoCorrect/AutoCorrect "Capitalize first letter of every sentence"? If I correct it, is that word that I abbreviate automatically added to the exceptions list? Bob ... 2 11/18/2008 1:43:17 AM word 2003 spell checker doesn't work Hi sorry to bother you but I don't seem to find an answer to my problem. The texte I write in word is underliner when I make an error but ther are no suggestions. It relates to simple words that should be suggested. Any idea what I should do?... 5 11/17/2008 10:08:16 PM Word 2003: Language Format Codes I have a fairly complex and long document with many tables prepared in Word 2003. Reviewers are tracking changes and the document is displaying multiple language-related format entries -- Spanish, Portuguese, French, US English. etc. -- mostly in the tables. How do I globally remove these codes? If I select the whole document (ctl-A) and select Canadian English language (the default) wo... 2 11/12/2008 7:15:06 PM Automatically missing S & R from the documents file. I have one important file containing some important information in word file. the problem is that from the whole file containing 170 pages the charcater R & S is automatically removed from the file. I am seding the sample for same and kindly help : – He i not coming Chandigah due to peonal poblem. (actual : He is not coming Chandigarh due to personal problem). Message eceived fom ... 1 11/11/2008 5:47:01 AM Mystery Underline On a reinstall of Office/Word 2003, I am once again back in the land of all kinds of cute underlines. I understand how to turn them off, but before I do I like to know what it is I am turning off. The mystery underline is straight and dotted red. It appeared under the street address of a letter heading. A delete and retype of the address line brought it back again. I dutifully went ... 4 11/10/2008 2:02:09 PM How to remove language above double line in Mark selected text as: I have accidentally double clicked on the language French (Haiti) when I opened up the language tab at the bottom left corner of Word 2007, and it is moved up above the double line in Mark selected text as: How do I remove this language from above the double line in the Mark selected text as list? I have exhausted every possible way, to no avail. Somebody help out please!... 6 11/7/2008 5:17:55 AM Add to Dictionary greyed out Have Office 2007. Set alnguage to English (South Africa) Now, cannot add words to custom dictionary, link is greyed out. How do i enable this feature? Thanks... 1 10/30/2008 9:42:04 AM Looking for custom dictionary download sites Does anyone know of web sites that have resources including assorted MS Word spell check dictionaries ? I've had a look but don't see what I'm after which is just a list of words (eg Medical terms) to put in as a custom dictionary. Many of the hits I have had when doing a search have turned out to be actual DICTIONARIES with definitions. I'm just after word lists for various subjects,... 1 10/28/2008 4:07:33 PM Spell check flipped to Spanish I'm working on a 95-page document. Right in the middle of a spell check, it flipped from English to Spanish. I've gone to the Language control and it is set to English as the default language. However, even with closing and reopening the file, the Spell Check is still using Spanish as the default language. How do I undo this?? Thanks- ... 1 10/25/2008 6:01:01 PM Windows Mail The spell check does not work in Windows Mail. How do I enable it? ... 2 10/20/2008 5:55:29 PM Howto switch off spelling errors generator hided in MS Word2007? I use Estonian localization of MS Word 2007. I have noticed, that sometimes, without asking permission, MS Word automatically changes my text, that is absolutely correctly spelled (I think this is supposed to be automatic spelling checking and error correction function). So the correct word will be replaced by another word that does not fit into my context anymore. Some samples: ... 4 10/20/2008 7:39:01 AM Custom Dictionary not available in MSWord 2008 Whenever I start MS Word 2008 on my iMac I get a dialog box: The custom dictionary "Custom Dictionary" is not available. But in the Spelling and Grammar preferences, the Custom Dictionary is set to "Custom Dictionary" and with a path of: Users:(me):Library:Preferences:Microsoft:Office 2008 And indeed, there is a 4K plaintext file in that folder called "Custom Dictionary", wit... 1 10/16/2008 5:41:08 AM 11 Pages: 1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10  11