HELP PLEASE - Word only spell checking PART of a document?????????

[Robin Jackson]

Hi

Can anyone help please urgently?

My daughter is trying to finish some important University course work and
one of her main documents will not spell check.

The first 8-9 pages spell check fine and the little red squiggly under the
incorrect word but after that for the whole document NOTHING and there are
loads of spelling errors?

She is on Word from Office X.

I have also tried the same document in Office 2004 with exactly the same
results!!!!!!!!!!!

When she has copied and pasted the text from this document to another it
still has the same problem?????

PLEASE can anyone help???????

Robin

 

[Robin Jackson]

As a further data point I have now copied the file into my VPC environment
and using Office 2003 on Windows XP this document is showing EXACTLY the
same problem???????

It is a short document but of a highly scientific nature so lots of
'supposed' errors.

Is there a defined limit to the number of errors Word can show!!!!!!!!

Cheers.

Robin

 

[Beth Rosengard]

Hi Robin,

From a previous post by Daiya Mitchell:

Probably part of your text is set to No Proofing, or the wrong language. You
have to assign a language to the text for Word to spellcheck it.To test this,
with the cursor in a word that isn't being checked, go to Tools | Language and
see what comes up selected.

To assign a language, select all text and use Tools | Language. This may have
happened if you pasted in some text that was already set to No Proofing, and
then kept hitting enter and typing from that block of text.

HTH.

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[Robin Jackson]

Hi Beth

Both my daughter and I send a HUGE thank you for such a speedy answer.

This is part of her dissertation and I was at a total loss.

Somehow she had selected a non language part way through the document (I did
not even know you had to select a language??????).

Again many, many, MANY thanks.

Regards.

Robin