spell check crashes

[Paul]

Well, soon after posting my message... and after about two years of living
with this crashing, I found a post here that pointed to this

http://www.mcgimpsey.com/macoffice/office/troubleshooting.html

it was not about my problem, but about fixes generally.

Well to make a long story short, after some process of elimination, I trashed
my Word Settings (10) file in User:Libraryreferences: Microsoft, restarted
Word and voila! problem solved. I kept the Setting 10 doc just in case the
trashing eliminated all my extensive customization of tool bars, etc. but it
didn't matter. Those are stored somewhere else! I did have to reset the
standard zoom, and some of those prefs about smart cut and copy, select
words, etc. (which are a nuisance), but it took 2 minutes to do that.

So, finally, I can insert page numbers and spell check, and it won't crash or
give me funny messages about No Proofing text!

 

[Dayo Mitchell]

Re preserving your extensive toolbar customizations, Paul, those are stored
in the Normal template by default, and it's a good idea to regularly back
that up in case it corrupts.

For details on that and more info, see these two articles:

http://word.mvps.org/MacWordNew/BackUpPrefs.htm
(hit refresh a few times in Safari or use Inet Explr)
(probably want to skip down to More About Templates and Preferences)

http://www.mcgimpsey.com/macoffice/word/globaltemplate.html

DM

PS. Approximately three months after I first got my very own Mac, about 10
years ago, I remember being told, "whenever any application acts up, try
trashing the prefs. The program will create new ones." Apparently I was
luckier than I knew to have a computer geek in the household. Although he
forgot to tell me about rebuilding the desktop for a year or so.

 

[Harold Olejarz]

I tried it and it is still crashing. I out some gibberish text at the end of my
document and when spell check gets to that I cancel the spell check. This is
working but what a way to live.

harold