Spell check suddenly fails in X

[Don Newmeyer]

I'm writing a fairly long document, about 12 MB. Suddenly, when I type words
that are normally flagged as not being in the dictionaries, there's no wavy
red line. And when I try to do a spell check, all I get is a message saying,
"Spell Check is Complete".

The strange thing is that if I type at the very top of the document, it
checks those words, but not if I type in the middle.

If I make a new file and paste the entire contents of the old file into it,
I still have the same problem. It's as if there's a flag in the document
telling it not to check within that range (which is pretty much everything
I've written).

Any ideas?

Thanks!

Don Newmeyer

 

[Dayo Mitchell]

Probably part of your text is set to No Proofing. You have to assign a
language to the text for Word to spellcheck it.

To test this, with the cursor in a word that isn't being checked, go to
Tools | Language and see what comes up selected.

To assign a language, select all text and use Tools | Language.

This may have happened if you pasted in some text that was already set to No
Proofing, and then kept hitting enter and typing from that block of text.

If this happens in multiple documents, you may need to use a style-based
solution instead of the manual formatting solution given above. Post back
if so.

DM

 

[Don Newmeyer]

Yes, that was it. Somehow the language got set to Russian! I have no idea
how that happened.

Thanks!
Don


Mitchell at (e-mail address removed) wrote on 7/14/04
7:40 AM:

 

[Dayo Mitchell]

Glad to help.
DM

Yes, that was it. Somehow the language got set to Russian! I have no idea
how that happened.

Thanks!
Don


Mitchell at (e-mail address removed) wrote on 7/14/04
7:40 AM: