Desperate need of Spell Check assistance for Word 2007! Please hel

[PharmGirl]

I already posted here once but the answer I received didn't solve my problem.
I was typing one day in Word 2007 when all of a sudden the red squiggly
lines under my misspelled words disappeared. I've tried EVERYTHING I can
think of to fix the spell check...I made sure everything under "Proofing" is
checked appropriately, all the language settings are correct, and I
uninstalled and reinstalled the program and it still didn't work. I saved
all my Word docs to a disk and them removed them all from my computer,
uninstalled, and reinstalled Office, and it STILL doesn't work! I've
purposely misspelled words (Pleez spel chek this dokument!) and NOTHING is
working. For what it's worth, after I reinstalled the program, under
"Start", "Programs", when new programs are usually highlighted orange, Word,
Excel, and PP were not highlighted, while all the other Office programs were
(Word, Excel, and PP were the only ones I'd used from Office 2007). Would
this have something to do with it? I'm in desperate need of help--I used
Word all the time and rely heavily on the spell check function. And I'm a
poor college student so I can't afford the $49 Microsoft wants to charge me
when I call them for help.

 

[garfield-n-odie [MVP]]

Did you choose to hide spelling errors?

 

[PharmGirl]

No, I did not choose that. I've also compared all my settings to a friend's
Word 2007 settings and they are all identical, but hers works and mine
doesn't. Any other suggestions?

 

[garfield-n-odie [MVP]]

Does spellcheck work if you start Word in
safe mode ( Start | Run | Open: winword.exe /a )?

 

[PharmGirl]

I just tried that, and it continued to overlook my misspelled words.

 

[garfield-n-odie [MVP]]

Close Word, and use regedit to rename Word's data key in the Windows
registry at
\\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Word\Data. When you
start Word again, Word will create a new Data key with the factory
default settings. Start Word, and see if spellcheck works.

 

[PharmGirl]

Do I just rename the "Data" folder to anything? I tried "DataNew", closed
the registry, and opened Word. I typed in some words, misspelling them
intentionally, and still no luck. Did I do it correctly?

 

[garfield-n-odie [MVP]]

Yeah, renaming Data to anything that is not Data should work. The Data
key holds many of the Word Options settings. I was thinking if the key
is corrupt (which means it might not save your Word Options preferences
correctly) or if you don't have a clue what you're doing in Word
Options, then renaming the key should reset Word to factory default
settings. The problem could be a language setting, but you didn't
answer Stefan's question regarding language settings in his reply to
your original post. The problem could also be a corrupt user profile,
so you might try creating a new user in Windows and see if spellcheck
works when logged in as the new user. Otherwise I'm kinda out of ideas.

 

[PharmGirl]

My language settings were all ok, so it must have been a corrupt user
profile, because when I created a new one, the spell check worked. I suppose
fixing a corrupt user profile is a question for a different discussion group
. Thanks for the help! I really really appreciate it!

 

[garfield-n-odie [MVP]]

Does spellcheck not work in any document, or just not in one particular
document? If it's one particular document, then the document is
probably corrupt, and you might be able to fix it by copying everything
except the last paragraph mark into a new document.

 

[PharmGirl]

It works in no documents. When I open up older documents, the red squiggles
are there for a second, then they all disappear.

 

[garfield-n-odie [MVP]]

Glad the new profile fixed the problem. Your reply about the new
profile working and my question about all documents/one document crossed
in cyberspace, so when I asked I didn't know you had found a solution.
I've never been able to fix a corrupt user profile in Windows. I don't
know if it's even possible or not. Whenever I run into the occasional
"I know I did everything right but it still doesn't work" problem, I
test with a new user profile, and if that fixes it, then I figure case
closed.