Office 2007 proofing tools - English UK

[Boris]

Hi,
I have a problem with my recently installed Office 2007 Pro Plus setup
running under XP SP2. My default language preference for speeling and grammar
is English (UK) but when I try to spell check new or old (word XP) documents,
I get an error to say that Word "cannot find proofing tools for English
(UK)...". If I click K, Word tells me it has completed the spelling and
grammar checking but detects no errors etc. And if I choose to use the
thesaurus I get the error the Office "cannot op[en the Thesaurus... Installer
error 1605...". Everything work OK if I select English (US) as my language
but that does not help me much... I have tried repairing the installation and
have tried unininstalling the proofing tools and reinstalling them (using the
MSOCache files, not the installation source) but this has not helped... Are
the English (UK) proofing tools not available from the installation source?
Where can I obtain the English (UK) Files and how do I install them?
Any help, as always, greatly appreciated.
Best wishes, Boris.

 

[qwerty2k7]

Taken from the solution over at Lockergnome: '2007 Spell Check Not
working' (http://tinyurl.com/3ykqca)

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Proofing Tools\1.0\Override\en-US

I had 2 entries (DLL and LEX) pointing to non-existing files.

Rename these to oldDLL and oldLEX.

After this change all Spell Checking worked normal again.

This worked for me and got my English U.K. default spelling working
again immediately

 

[Boris]

Many thanks - very useful. In the end, I gave up trying to get the original
installation working and went back to a system configuration before I had
installed even the beta vrsion of Excel 2007, then uninstalled all Office
programs, clkeaned out the registry, and did a full install of Office 2007
Professional. That worked but your solution wouldhave been so much easier!
Thanks again and bestwishes, Boris.

 

[x3ja]

I have this same problem exactly, but don't have those keys in my
registry... any other ideas?

 

[Boris]

I would say, if you do resort to reinstalling (as I did) simply removing
Office 2007 and reinstalling will not be enough. You will have to manually go
through the registry (carefully) and remove entries specific to Office before
reinstalling - at least on my system a simple uninstall and reinstall made no
difference.
Once I recompleted a clean reinstall, everything was OK with the proofing
tools but I have had some other problems (for example, try as I might, I had
no success using the Save As PDF or XPS add-in option in any office programs
and have now resorted simply to remove it and rely on the Adopbe Acrobat 8
product but I appreciate that is not a cheap option!). So, no, I do not know
which keys cause the problem but I am relatively sure it is down to registry
settings somewhere and I guess reinstalling, although a duanting task, is the
fastest way to solve the problem...
Good luck, Boris.

 

[x3ja]

I would say, if you do resort to reinstalling (as I did) simply removing
Office 2007 and reinstalling will not be enough.

You are completely right! I uninstalled completely & reinstalled but
that didn't solve it. I uninstalled, removed the Office directory &
anything I could find to do with office from the registry &
reinstalled, but that still didn't solve it. You know what? I think
I'll stick with English (U.S.) since I only have the laptop for another
month! Or maybe I'll start writing everything in French since that
works too... it is ONLY the English (U.K.) that doesn't!!!

How odd eh? Maybe if I changed my system locale to English (U.S.) when
I install, then that would be the one that didn't work? Who knows!

 

[gerokika]

THIS FIXES IT.

Go to the Add/Remove Programs and select Microsoft Office 2007 and
click the Change button. Select the Add/Remove Features radio button and
hit Continue. Expand the plus-sign next to Office Shared Features, click
on the drop-down arrow next to Proofing Tools, and Select "Run All From
My Computer". (Or you can select the Languages you prefer to have
Proofing Tools support, if you expand Proofing Tools.) Click Continue,
etc. and you should be all set.

 

[DreadedDev]

The previous post which says "This fix works".... it doesn't, I ha
already set all the optiosn to run from my computer, but went in and di
it anyway, but still no joy! This is with the full release version, no
beta. I have also downloaded the 668Mb Office 2007 proofing tools fro
MSDN and tried installing that, but that wouldn't even install and th
folder structure looked exactly like the one on the original instal
with all the folders named xxxx.en-us..... Not good!

However, can confirm that the first post does indeed work.... ho
worrying is that!! A release product that from MS that you have to re
hack to get to work properly.... and we thought the MS poor qualit
releases were a thing of the past......

 

[ocminaya]

THIS WORKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

THIS FIXES IT.

Go to the Add/Remove Programs and select Microsoft Office 2007 and click
the Change button. Select the Add/Remove Features radio button and hit
Continue. Expand the plus-sign next to Office Shared Features, click on
the drop-down arrow next to Proofing Tools, and Select "Run All From My
Computer". (Or you can select the Languages you prefer to have Proofing
Tools support, if you expand Proofing Tools.) Click Continue, etc. and
you should be all set.

Dude you are the man!!!!! I tried a hundred different ways. Yours
finally worked.

THIS WORKS!!!!!!!!!

 

[alldgy]

my gosh!!!!!!!!!! you are soo great!!!!!! i tried for one year, and ur
work!!!! this is cool!!! u r sooo great!!!!! thank you soo mcuh!!!! mua
muah muah!!

 

[Bondy]

the "run all from my computer" stuff didn't work for me.

Removed this key, went back into word and now ok.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Installer\Components\F3BE92CC2CB71D119A12000A9CE1A22A

Hope this helps