MS Word X Spelling & Grammar Preferences Greyed Out

[Zaihan Kariyani]

Hello there!

Can I ask how to activate the option to amend the Preferences for Spelling &
Grammar? In my MS Word application, this option in the Preferences of Word
is greyed out.

I can't click on it and can't activate auto correct or even utilise the spelling
checker. Which makes Word a very big and useless program for me. any
ideas anyone?

Zaihan

 

[Beth Rosengard]

Hi Zaihan,

From a previous post by John McGhie:

The first thing to check is that the Operating System, Word, the Document, the
Style and the text the cursor is in are all set to the SAME language.

"English" is not good enough: it must be "English US" or "English AUS" or
whatever.

You must also check that you do not have document protected in the place where
the insertion point is.

These two are the usual causes: Spelling and grammar can't operate if you have
English US installed and the document is in English UK, or if the document is
protected for forms.

And of course, the language must be installed in the OS in the first place,
as well as the proofing tools for that language. Proofing tools can be
found in the Value Pack on the Office installation CD.

Hope this helps.

--
Beth Rosengard
Mac MVP

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