spell-check is disabled - shy?

[John Gilchrist]

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post to a different group - thanks, John
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I'm working with a database application which uses word documents for
reports.

If I open Word directly, everything works fine, and spelling is checked
automatically.

If I go into Word via this database application, the resulting document does
not check spelling. You need to highlight the entire document, select a
language, and finally it will check the spelling. I have checked the
Options screen, and nothing is different.

If I click the RECHECK key, the program finds some grammar problems
(green underline), but does not find spelling errors (red underline)

I talked to the database tech support. They say the document is a result of
a mail-merge, but they can't explain why spell-check is disabled.

I did a normal mail-merge, and the resulting document (merged document)
does not have spell-check disabled.

Any ideas??
Thanks,
John

 

[MsOsWin]

I tried to post this message to "word-new-users" and got no reply -
should I post to a different group - thanks, John
----------
I'm working with a database application which uses word documents for
reports.

If I open Word directly, everything works fine, and spelling is
checked automatically.

If I go into Word via this database application, the resulting
document does not check spelling. You need to highlight the entire
document, select a language, and finally it will check the spelling.
I have checked the Options screen, and nothing is different.

If I click the RECHECK key, the program finds some grammar problems
(green underline), but does not find spelling errors (red underline)

I talked to the database tech support. They say the document is a
result of a mail-merge, but they can't explain why spell-check is
disabled.

I did a normal mail-merge, and the resulting document (merged
document) does not have spell-check disabled.

Any ideas??
Thanks,
John

a couple of years ago, i somehow set a Language (command) setting. i guess by
inadvertant keyboard pressing.

anyway the symptom was obvious and mysterious: spellcheck would not "find" an
obviously misspelled word.

investigating, i checked the exclude file, shutdown and restarted word to ?refresh" any
"ignore all" that i might have done (also unlikely anyway). the cure was found in a
newsgroup message. that Language command.

(caveat: i may be remembering a problem with grammar chack, not spellcheck. also this
was while directly using word, not within a database as is your csae.)