Spell Check Does not work

[SR2]

Recently my spell check stopped working. I get a message that says
"spellcheck is complete" when I perform one, but it does not do anything
really. In fact, word doesn't even highlight errors on new docs.

Weird thing is it works if I use word to edit emails in outlook, or if i
were to pull up an older .doc file or use one that someone has sent to me.
Just does not work for new docs.

Did everything Microsoft support site suggested (custom.doc replaced, etc)
but to no avail.

HELP!!!

cheers, sr2

 

[Terry Farrell]

Somehow, your normal template has set to No Proofing. Take a look in Tools,
Language, Set Language and clear the check box for no proofing.

 

[SR2]

Terry, it worked. Thanx a zillion.
sr2

Somehow, your normal template has set to No Proofing. Take a look in Tools,
Language, Set Language and clear the check box for no proofing.

 

[Dan]

I have checked every language setting, new normal.dot, all proofing
settings, including your guidance here, but I cannot get spelling to work
again. Any advice is appreciated!
Word 2007 on XP SP2
Thanks,
Dan

 

[Dan]

I burned a support incident to resolve this. There is not yet a public KB.
Spell Check was not working in any office 2007 app. I installed 2007 over
Office 2003 in case that matters.

Resolution:
run "Regedit"
Traverse through the tree
HKEY_CURRENT_USER
Software
Microsoft
Shared Tools
Proofing Tools
1.0
Override
en-US (english, US in my case, your language may vary)
There are three entries. (default) dll, and lex
Rename or delete DLL and LEX (rightclick, rename) to something like "oldDLL"

Any document or file that I had saved during this problem, I had to open the
doc, click the round start button in the app, then click the "Word Options"
button on the bottom of the dialog box, then Proofing, then Check Document
button, yes. The red squigglies will appear.

Good luck! Took me 3 hours on a PSS call to resolve this. I hope I save
someone else the trouble.

 

[Terry Farrell]

Dan

Thanks for that information.

Terry

I burned a support incident to resolve this. There is not yet a public KB.
Spell Check was not working in any office 2007 app. I installed 2007 over
Office 2003 in case that matters.

Resolution:
run "Regedit"
Traverse through the tree
HKEY_CURRENT_USER
Software
Microsoft
Shared Tools
Proofing Tools
1.0
Override
en-US (english, US in my case, your language may vary)
There are three entries. (default) dll, and lex
Rename or delete DLL and LEX (rightclick, rename) to something like
"oldDLL"

Any document or file that I had saved during this problem, I had to open
the doc, click the round start button in the app, then click the "Word
Options" button on the bottom of the dialog box, then Proofing, then Check
Document button, yes. The red squigglies will appear.

Good luck! Took me 3 hours on a PSS call to resolve this. I hope I save
someone else the trouble.

 

[cynthiavee]

Hi - I tried your suggestion but when I got to 1.0 in the registry I didn't
find a folder named Override and therefore no mention of en-US and no three
entries. Any suggestions? Cynthia

 

[Jan]

Cool Dude,
thanks for posting, saved me a support call. spell-check just quit one-day,
no reason. so this fixed it (I had even ripped out office once and
reinstalled before I came across your post), SO again thanks for sharing -
beats all the wait for SP1 answers ;-)
-- Jan

 

[Kris]

Dan~
You rock the party that rocks the pinata! My wife has been upset about no
spell check for awhile and I couldn't figure out the problem after multiple
attempts. While I'm sorry you have to go through the pain of paying for the
answer, I certainly appreciate your sharing it. Thanks a ton!
-Kris

 

[RC]

Cynthiavee:

I had the same problem as you ... I found the following excerpt on the
internet on www.kevindevin.com, and believe it or not it worked. Just go
into the registry tree as described below, and delete the last registry item
listed in the entry below ("Word"). When you reopen Word, you can type
gibberish and Word picks it up. Don't know how long the fix will last, but
just glad the spell check is back! From the KevinDevin website:

"She had an interesting problem where spell check did not work at all in
Word. It worked fine in all the other office apps. Just not word. It turns
out it was a registry setting somehow. I figured it out by making another
user account and found spell check worked in word under that user. After some
poking around I found Microsoft KB Article 822005. Basically I just had to
delete the registry key KEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Word.
Then I reopened Word and let it recreate the key and subkeys. This fixed the
issue and Spell Check started working."

 

[Jonathan]

I could follow the tree only until the "1.0" folder. I could not find
"override". Are you sure you typed the folders right? maybe it's just my
machine... i'm using 2007 on Vista

 

[Jos]

PLEASE HELP - where is Tools - Language, Set Language
My spell check doesn't work at all.

 

[Cranes]

Your fix continues to help. We have had this failure in Word with Vista
(blasted thing!) and are now back checkin' spellin'! Thanks.

 

[groujo]

This worked for me, too. Thanks!

Cynthiavee:

I had the same problem as you ... I found the following excerpt on the
internet on www.kevindevin.com, and believe it or not it worked. Just go
into the registry tree as described below, and delete the last registry item
listed in the entry below ("Word"). When you reopen Word, you can type
gibberish and Word picks it up. Don't know how long the fix will last, but
just glad the spell check is back! From the KevinDevin website:

"She had an interesting problem where spell check did not work at all in
Word. It worked fine in all the other office apps. Just not word. It turns
out it was a registry setting somehow. I figured it out by making another
user account and found spell check worked in word under that user. After some
poking around I found Microsoft KB Article 822005. Basically I just had to
delete the registry key KEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Word.
Then I reopened Word and let it recreate the key and subkeys. This fixed the
issue and Spell Check started working."