No spell check, and only custom. dictionaries

[Gerald S]

Hello,

I am hoping someone will be able to help me, I have xp home edition and use
word 97 S P - 1. when I check my spelling I just get a pop up telling me
spelling and grammer is complete, Yet I know there are mis-spelled words
there, I have been to the dictionaries option and as far as I can see there
is only one option and that is custom.dic I see no other dictionaries there.
have I installed the program wrong does anyone think.

many thanks in advance

Gerald

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

The built-in lexicon is not listed because it is not user-editable. If Word
is not finding spelling errors, it's likely because the text is formatted as
"No proofing." Ctrl+A to select the entire document, then go to Tools |
Language | Set Language and select the appropriate language. You may want to
click the Default... button as well if this is a problem in all documents.

 

[Gerald S]

Firstly thank you for your assistance, I have just done as you advised,
selected the whole document, then tools, language, chose english united
kingdom also clicked default, still it say the spelling is complete and it
has not picked up delibrate spelling mistakes, would you have any other
solutions I may be able to try. thank you

 

[Gerald S]

My apologies, I opened a new document after doing as you suggested and now it
seems to be checking fine, I would not check the existing document I had open.

So many thanks I really am grateful for your help.

Gerald

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I'm surprised it didn't check the current document. Even if you had spelling
errors hidden, the spell check should work when you run it explicitly.