That was an early bug caused by the presence of Unicode characters in the
custom dictionary.
I would be surprised if it has come back again, but to prove it, try the
following:
1) Locate your custom dictionary and change the name of it (all Office
applications must be quit when you do this).
2) Create a new file named the same name as your custom dictionary in
TextEdit. Make sure you convert the file to Plain Text before you save it.
It doesn't matter whether the file has anything in it or not, so long as it
IS plain text and it has no Unicode characters in it. For the purposes of
this test, I would leave it blank.
Now try again: if this is the problem, Word will not crash. You can copy
the content of your previous custom dictionary into the new one, making sure
you do not have any characters other than the ANSI character set in it.
And if this is the problem, try re-applying the last three Office Updates:
this bug was fixed early in the life of the product...
Cheers
It happens every time I run the spell checker. Once it has checked the last
word it shuts down saying word has quit unexpectedly. What should I do, I've
been reduced to noting th last thing checked and then quitting the spell
checker before I get to that point!
Has anyone else had this problem?
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