Formatting

[M_Shinn]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: intel

I'm sure I'm being stupid here but this is driving me mad.
The auto formatting for spelling and grammar does not work on my new version of word.
I have no red or green wavy lines under incorrect pieces of text and I can't find any way to turn them on again.
I have checked in preferences and the correct buttons are switched on and even when I make a deliberate mistake in the text and ask it to check the document manually it still does not find it!

What am I doing wrong?

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

Probably your language is not set correctly, so Word doesn't know how to
check it. Also possible that your proofing tools are not installed.

Work through the Spelling Fixes listed here:
http://word.mvps.org/mac/SpellCheck.html

 

[M_Shinn]

Hi Daiya,
Thanks for that seems to be working now.
The problem was that I did not realize only documents created AFTER the language change would follow the new default language.
When I copied and pasted the text into another new document everything is working perfectly!
Thanks again

 

[CyberTaz]

Take a look in Tools> Language: make sure your Language setting is correct &
that the box isn't checked to skip spelling & grammar checking. If that
doesn't fix it post back with details.