Spell checking

[PBM]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel

When I select ABC-Sppelling to do a spell check I receive the message:

"The text string is too long - A text string must be between 1 and 255 characters. Reduce the number of characters or delete the entry".

I have checked all options in the Excel Preferences with no success. I noticed under Authoring there is no Proofing Tools or Spelling /Grammar icon, as there is in Word Prefernces.

Can you please assist me?

 

[PBM]

I would appreciate recieving an email notification of any reply to my question.

 

[John McGhie]

Sorry, I cannot produce that error in Excel 2008.

Are you sure you have applied all the most recent updates to Excel?

Somehow you are triggering an error message telling you that a "Text" string
cannot exceed 255 characters. The only place I can think of that that could
occur is if the string is being returned or processed by a Macro. There are
times when XLM would not like a text string that exceeded 255 characters.

Would this be a VERY old spreadsheet? If it were in Excel 7 format (pre
Excel 98) there is a hard limit of 255 characters in a cell... Try saving
it as .XLSX (and remove the Compatibility Options).

Sorry, we only do email replies to paying customers. The whole intent of
these forums is that the volunteers need donate their time only once per
question, then a large number of people with the same question can benefit
from that single post.

Hope this helps

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel

When I select ABC-Sppelling to do a spell check I receive the message:

"The text string is too long - A text string must be between 1 and 255
characters. Reduce the number of characters or delete the entry".

I have checked all options in the Excel Preferences with no success. I noticed
under Authoring there is no Proofing Tools or Spelling /Grammar icon, as there
is in Word Prefernces.

Can you please assist me?

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[PBM]

Hi John

Thanks for the reply. It is a new spreadsheet in Office for Mac 2008 I purchased along with my MacBook 3 months ago. I did try as you suggested but still the problem exists.

I'll just have to keep trying and also improve my spelling.

PBM

Sorry, I cannot produce that error in Excel 2008.

 

[CyberTaz]

What is the nature of the cell content of the sheet? Do any cells actually
have lengthy content? Do any of the cells have content that was pasted from
elsewhere -- such as from a web page? If so, it's possible that the content
"appears" to have spaces but actually employs other types of invisible
glyphs for spacing purposes. That could create what looks like a spaced text
string but is read by the spell check as a single string.

Are you in Edit or Enter mode [as opposed to Ready] within a cell with a lot
of content when attempting to run the spell check?

Out of curiosity I entered a 313 character string in a cell which the spell
checker simply ignored -- there was no complaint about the length of the
string unless I dbl-clicked in the cell before running the checker. Even
then the message was a bit different than the one you reported [it simply
said "Text is too long"]. I copied it into Word where the spell checker
ignored the lengthy string altogether.

You've not responded to John's first question regarding updates... What is
your exact version level for both Office & OSX? If you provide that
information along with a detailed description of the sheet content and your
exact steps to reproduce the behavior perhaps someone can help.

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

 

[John McGhie]

Sorry: I was not clear...

Office 2008 should never display this error. It allows about 32,000
characters in a cell before it hits a limit.

So please give us the details we're asking for: you have a fault, and I
suspect that there may be something unwanted lurking on your computer.

We can help you find it, but not without detail.

When you say you purchased this spreadsheet, where did you get it from?
What does it do?

Cheers

Hi John

Thanks for the reply. It is a new spreadsheet in Office for Mac 2008 I
purchased along with my MacBook 3 months ago. I did try as you suggested but
still the problem exists.

I'll just have to keep trying and also improve my spelling.

PBM

Sorry, I cannot produce that error in Excel 2008.

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[CyberTaz]

Hey John;

I believe the OP means that it's a new spreadsheet s/he created using a copy
of Office 2008 & that his/her copy of Office 2008 was purchased 3 months ago
along with the Mac.

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

 

[John McGhie]

That's what I thought they meant

In which case, I am a bit mystified as to where the error is coming from!
Because I don't think it is Excel!

Unless there's some horrid bug I have never seen that triggers the OLD error
message under some circumstance?

Cheers

Hey John;

I believe the OP means that it's a new spreadsheet s/he created using a copy
of Office 2008 & that his/her copy of Office 2008 was purchased 3 months ago
along with the Mac.

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

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[PBM]

First, thank you guys for persisting with trying to assist me.

I purchased the genuine MacBook and Office 2008 for Mac from an authorised dealer in Melbourne, Australia in late May 2009.

The Office software was installed and has been updated and all other programs operate ok. Only recently the nature of my work requires me to use Excel and I found this glitch with the spelling checker.

The details you may require are:
MacBook 5.1
Intel Core 2 Duo
2.4 GHz
System Version: Mac OS X 10.5.8 (9L30)
Kernel Version: Darwin 9.8.0

Ms Excel 2008 for Mac
Version 12.2.0 (090605)
Latest Installed Update: 12.2.1
Product ID: 9275-504-6131406-12676

When I open a new unused workbook/sheet, and select an empty cell and spell check it I receive the message that "The text string is too long". Click OK and a message tells me "The spell check is complete for the entire sheet".

If I select any cell empty or with words in it, the problem is the same.

Look forward to reading more from you.
Thanks. Peter.

What is the nature of the cell content of the sheet? Do any cells actually

have lengthy content? Do any of the cells have content that was pasted from
elsewhere -- such as from a web page? If so, it's possible that the content
"appears" to have spaces but actually employs other types of invisible
glyphs for spacing purposes. That could create what looks like a spaced text
string but is read by the spell check as a single string.

Are you in Edit or Enter mode [as opposed to Ready] within a cell with a lot
of content when attempting to run the spell check?

Out of curiosity I entered a 313 character string in a cell which the spell
checker simply ignored -- there was no complaint about the length of the
string unless I dbl-clicked in the cell before running the checker. Even
then the message was a bit different than the one you reported [it simply
said "Text is too long"]. I copied it into Word where the spell checker
ignored the lengthy string altogether.

You've not responded to John's first question regarding updates... What is
your exact version level for both Office & OSX? If you provide that
information along with a detailed description of the sheet content and your
exact steps to reproduce the behavior perhaps someone can help.

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

Hi John

Thanks for the reply. It is a new spreadsheet in Office for Mac 2008 I
purchased along with my MacBook 3 months ago. I did try as you suggested but
still the problem exists.

I'll just have to keep trying and also improve my spelling.

PBM

Sorry, I cannot produce that error in Excel 2008.

 

[John McGhie]

Hi Peter:

OK, I have a MacBook I bought in Sydney (close enough) and it didn't do this
in OS 10.5.8.

It sounds as though something has been hacking around with bits of your
software. I think we better do a remove and replace...

Find and run the Remove Office tool. Unless you've moved it, it will be in
/Applications/Microsoft Office 2008/Additional Tools/Remove Office

Now reboot and run Disk Utility, and choose Repair Permissions.

Then put your Office CD in and re-install Office 2008.

And then (and this is essential...) download and re-apply Office 2008 12.2.0
and 12.2.1 updates. When you run the remover tool, you will remove all of
the software modules from the hard disk. When you put them back in, they
will have no updates applied.

I suspect something might have been fiddling with your software and now it
has missing components. Perhaps you have been running one of those
utilities such as Monolingual, that claim to reduce software size by
trimming out "unnecessary" files? There are no "unnecessary" files in
Microsoft Office, so these utilities tend to damage the software.

Hope this helps

First, thank you guys for persisting with trying to assist me.

I purchased the genuine MacBook and Office 2008 for Mac from an authorised
dealer in Melbourne, Australia in late May 2009.

The Office software was installed and has been updated and all other programs
operate ok. Only recently the nature of my work requires me to use Excel and I
found this glitch with the spelling checker.

The details you may require are:
MacBook 5.1
Intel Core 2 Duo
2.4 GHz
System Version: Mac OS X 10.5.8 (9L30)
Kernel Version: Darwin 9.8.0

Ms Excel 2008 for Mac
Version 12.2.0 (090605)
Latest Installed Update: 12.2.1
Product ID: 9275-504-6131406-12676

When I open a new unused workbook/sheet, and select an empty cell and spell
check it I receive the message that "The text string is too long". Click OK
and a message tells me "The spell check is complete for the entire sheet".

If I select any cell empty or with words in it, the problem is the same.

Look forward to reading more from you.
Thanks. Peter.

What is the nature of the cell content of the sheet? Do any cells actually

have lengthy content? Do any of the cells have content that was pasted from
elsewhere -- such as from a web page? If so, it's possible that the content
"appears" to have spaces but actually employs other types of invisible
glyphs for spacing purposes. That could create what looks like a spaced text
string but is read by the spell check as a single string.

Are you in Edit or Enter mode [as opposed to Ready] within a cell with a lot
of content when attempting to run the spell check?

Out of curiosity I entered a 313 character string in a cell which the spell
checker simply ignored -- there was no complaint about the length of the
string unless I dbl-clicked in the cell before running the checker. Even
then the message was a bit different than the one you reported [it simply
said "Text is too long"]. I copied it into Word where the spell checker
ignored the lengthy string altogether.

You've not responded to John's first question regarding updates... What is
your exact version level for both Office & OSX? If you provide that
information along with a detailed description of the sheet content and your
exact steps to reproduce the behavior perhaps someone can help.

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

Hi John

Thanks for the reply. It is a new spreadsheet in Office for Mac 2008 I
purchased along with my MacBook 3 months ago. I did try as you suggested but
still the problem exists.

I'll just have to keep trying and also improve my spelling.

PBM

Sorry, I cannot produce that error in Excel 2008.

Are you sure you have applied all the most recent updates to Excel?

Somehow you are triggering an error message telling you that a "Text"
string
cannot exceed 255 characters. The only place I can think of that that could
occur is if the string is being returned or processed by a Macro. There are
times when XLM would not like a text string that exceeded 255 characters.

Would this be a VERY old spreadsheet? If it were in Excel 7 format (pre
Excel 98) there is a hard limit of 255 characters in a cell... Try saving
it as .XLSX (and remove the Compatibility Options).

Sorry, we only do email replies to paying customers. The whole intent of
these forums is that the volunteers need donate their time only once per
question, then a large number of people with the same question can benefit
from that single post.

Hope this helps


On

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McGhie Information Engineering Pty Ltd
Sydney, Australia. | Ph: +61 (0)4 1209 1410
+61 4 1209 1410, mailto:[email protected]

 

[PBM]

Hi John
Thanks for the helpful suggestion. Last week I completely removed Office, re-installed from the CD and downloaded the latest update 12.2.1, as you have kindly recommended. Still did not rectify the situation.

However! Between the full removal and re-installing from the CD I did not run Repair Permissions. I will do that this weekend and let you know the outcome.

I do appreciate your assistance as I am currently working in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia and have no access to Mac assistance here. Note: As I value and need my Mac operating correctly, I have not installed any software onto my Mac since I left Melbourne.

Regards, Peter.

Hi Peter:

OK, I have a MacBook I bought in Sydney (close enough) and it didn't do this
in OS 10.5.8.

It sounds as though something has been hacking around with bits of your
software. I think we better do a remove and replace...

Find and run the Remove Office tool. Unless you've moved it, it will be in
/Applications/Microsoft Office 2008/Additional Tools/Remove Office

Now reboot and run Disk Utility, and choose Repair Permissions.

Then put your Office CD in and re-install Office 2008.

And then (and this is essential...) download and re-apply Office 2008 12.2.0
and 12.2.1 updates. When you run the remover tool, you will remove all of
the software modules from the hard disk. When you put them back in, they
will have no updates applied.

I suspect something might have been fiddling with your software and now it
has missing components. Perhaps you have been running one of those
utilities such as Monolingual, that claim to reduce software size by
trimming out "unnecessary" files? There are no "unnecessary" files in
Microsoft Office, so these utilities tend to damage the software.

Hope this helps

First, thank you guys for persisting with trying to assist me.

I purchased the genuine MacBook and Office 2008 for Mac from an authorised
dealer in Melbourne, Australia in late May 2009.

The Office software was installed and has been updated and all other programs
operate ok. Only recently the nature of my work requires me to use Excel and I
found this glitch with the spelling checker.

The details you may require are:
MacBook 5.1
Intel Core 2 Duo
2.4 GHz
System Version: Mac OS X 10.5.8 (9L30)
Kernel Version: Darwin 9.8.0

Ms Excel 2008 for Mac
Version 12.2.0 (090605)
Latest Installed Update: 12.2.1
Product ID: 9275-504-6131406-12676

When I open a new unused workbook/sheet, and select an empty cell and spell
check it I receive the message that "The text string is too long". Click OK
and a message tells me "The spell check is complete for the entire sheet".

If I select any cell empty or with words in it, the problem is the same.

Look forward to reading more from you.
Thanks. Peter.

What is the nature of the cell content of the sheet? Do any cells actually

have lengthy content? Do any of the cells have content that was pasted from
elsewhere -- such as from a web page? If so, it's possible that the content
"appears" to have spaces but actually employs other types of invisible
glyphs for spacing purposes. That could create what looks like a spaced text
string but is read by the spell check as a single string.

Are you in Edit or Enter mode [as opposed to Ready] within a cell with a lot
of content when attempting to run the spell check?

Out of curiosity I entered a 313 character string in a cell which the spell
checker simpl

 

[John McGhie]

What? There's no AppleCare in Ulaanbaatar? I cannot believe that....

That's the only problem with Macs: they are too expensive for the Chinese to
pirate them, so none of the corner shops know how to fix them

But if the worst comes top the worst, they will sell you a copy of Windows
XP and Microsoft Office 2003 for 35 renminbi down at the local markets
(yeah, you will pay twice the price the locals would get it for, you're a
foreigner...)

That will get you out of trouble until you get home

But the error you're seeing is one we have never seen before. AppleCare is
not going to help you: if a "re-install" doesn't fix it, they know nothing
about Microsoft software.

Which languages have you got installed? I am wondering if there's an error
in a language module that we didn't know about.

We'll see if we can attact XinXin's attention for you. He might recognise
something we have missed.

Cheers

Hi John
Thanks for the helpful suggestion. Last week I completely removed Office,
re-installed from the CD and downloaded the latest update 12.2.1, as you have
kindly recommended. Still did not rectify the situation.

However! Between the full removal and re-installing from the CD I did not run
Repair Permissions. I will do that this weekend and let you know the outcome.

I do appreciate your assistance as I am currently working in Ulaanbaatar,
Mongolia and have no access to Mac assistance here. Note: As I value and need
my Mac operating correctly, I have not installed any software onto my Mac
since I left Melbourne.

Regards, Peter.

Hi Peter:

OK, I have a MacBook I bought in Sydney (close enough) and it didn't do this
in OS 10.5.8.

It sounds as though something has been hacking around with bits of your
software. I think we better do a remove and replace...

Find and run the Remove Office tool. Unless you've moved it, it will be in
/Applications/Microsoft Office 2008/Additional Tools/Remove Office

Now reboot and run Disk Utility, and choose Repair Permissions.

Then put your Office CD in and re-install Office 2008.

And then (and this is essential...) download and re-apply Office 2008 12.2.0
and 12.2.1 updates. When you run the remover tool, you will remove all of
the software modules from the hard disk. When you put them back in, they
will have no updates applied.

I suspect something might have been fiddling with your software and now it
has missing components. Perhaps you have been running one of those
utilities such as Monolingual, that claim to reduce software size by
trimming out "unnecessary" files? There are no "unnecessary" files in
Microsoft Office, so these utilities tend to damage the software.

Hope this helps

First, thank you guys for persisting with trying to assist me.

I purchased the genuine MacBook and Office 2008 for Mac from an authorised
dealer in Melbourne, Australia in late May 2009.

The Office software was installed and has been updated and all other
programs
operate ok. Only recently the nature of my work requires me to use Excel and
I
found this glitch with the spelling checker.

The details you may require are:
MacBook 5.1
Intel Core 2 Duo
2.4 GHz
System Version: Mac OS X 10.5.8 (9L30)
Kernel Version: Darwin 9.8.0

Ms Excel 2008 for Mac
Version 12.2.0 (090605)
Latest Installed Update: 12.2.1
Product ID: 9275-504-6131406-12676

When I open a new unused workbook/sheet, and select an empty cell and spell
check it I receive the message that "The text string is too long". Click OK
and a message tells me "The spell check is complete for the entire sheet".

If I select any cell empty or with words in it, the problem is the same.

Look forward to reading more from you.
Thanks. Peter.

What is the nature of the cell content of the sheet? Do any cells actually
have lengthy content? Do any of the cells have content that was pasted from
elsewhere -- such as from a web page? If so, it's possible that the content
"appears" to have spaces but actually employs other types of invisible
glyphs for spacing purposes. That could create what looks like a spaced
text
string but is read by the spell check as a single string.

Are you in Edit or Enter mode [as opposed to Ready] within a cell with a
lot
of content when attempting to run the spell check?

Out of curiosity I entered a 313 character string in a cell which the spell
checker simpl

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McGhie Information Engineering Pty Ltd
Sydney, Australia. | Ph: +61 (0)4 1209 1410
+61 4 1209 1410, mailto:[email protected]

 

[PBM]

Hi John

Well, I am not going to give-up yet, but getting close.

I did a complete removal of Office and then emptied the trash 'Securely' (that took 4 hours!)

Then I performed the Permissions Repair, re-installed Office from the CD and then down loaded and installed the latest Updates (12.2.1).

From the CD, this time I only installed the English language. (Previous I installed all languages).

No change! the 'Spell Checker' glitch is still there.

Question 1.
In Excel Preferences under Authoring should there also be 'Proofing Tools'? (as there is in Word). My Excel has no Proofing Tools! no Spelling and Grammar icon!

Question 2.
What is the difference between Empty Trash and Empty Trash Securely? (apart from the difference between the time taken to perform each).

Peter

 

[John McGhie]

Hi Peter:

From the CD, this time I only installed the English language. (Previous I
installed all languages).

Damn! I needed you to install "All Languages" And your OS must be set
to "English" when you do that, otherwise we have had reports in the past
that you can get a bad installation.

Question 1.
In Excel Preferences under Authoring should there also be 'Proofing Tools'?
(as there is in Word). My Excel has no Proofing Tools! no Spelling and Grammar
icon!

In Excel, there should NOT be an "Authoring" tab in its Preferences, no
Spelling and Grammar preferences at all. Excel uses the Microsoft Office
proofing tools, which are common to the whole suite.

Question 2.
What is the difference between Empty Trash and Empty Trash Securely? (apart
from the difference between the time taken to perform each).

On a Mac, the "Delete" command is simply a "rename" operation. It renames
the file so that it appears to be "In the Trash". The file hasn't actually
moved anywhere.

The "Empty Trash" command changes the first character of the File Name in
the disk file table to mark the file as "available for overwriting". That
enables the system to use the disk space occupied by that file when it finds
something that will fit there. The data still hasn't gone anywhere: the
system just hung a "For Sale" sign out the front. Actual overwriting of the
file my occur weeks or years later, when the system gets around to needing
the space.

Until the overwrite happens, with advanced tools and knowledge and a fair
bit of patience, you could conceivably reconstruct the deleted file. There
is no guarantee that you would get it all back, and you would get it in a
random order. Most files are on the disk in more than one "block". If the
file is marked as "free" the system will use whichever of its blocks are
closest to the disk head when it needs one. So one or more of the blocks
may be overwritten almost immediately, and some may never get overwritten.
A skilled person may be able to get some of it back. You would need to be
very good to re-assemble the resulting binary soup into an Excel file. But
it can be done, and the security forces of various nation states have the
technology to do so, if you attract their attention. The effort involved is
so high that most normal criminals would just give up.

The "Secure Empty Trash" command physically re-writes the individual data
bits in every byte of every block of the deleted file. The Finder actually
runs the Unix "srm" command on the file to do this.

The command srm offers the ability to overwrite each bit in the file 1, 7 or
35 times. Finder uses the middle one, seven times. This method follows the
U.S. Department of Defense standard for the sanitization of magnetic media
in ŒDoD 5220- 22-M: National Security Program Operating Manual'.

First it rewrites every bit of the file to its opposite: If it was a 0, it
becomes a 1, or it was a 1, it becomes a zero. Then it writes them all to
1. Then all to 0. Then it writes each bit four more times using patterns
generated by a random number generator.

After you do this, the data is really "gone". There are rumours that it is
possible to reconstruct the data after such treatment. But as far as I
know, if anyone has actually succeeded in doing so, they have never admitted
it (because they work for some government agency that spells its name in all
capital letters...)

If I may give you just a gentle hint: While you are off-base five hours by
jet plane from the nearest Apple shop, you are in a very bad place to be
playing around with Secure Empty Trash. I strongly suggest that you do not
use that command again until the day before you sell the machine, when you
are utterly certain that you do not want any of the data on it...

Running advanced security routines on your machine while connected to a less
than reliable power supply in far-flung outer Mongolia is thrill-seeking on
a scale that would keep me awake at night. One little blip in the power,
and your entire hard disk could be unreadable. Forever.

You know how they told you in school "Don't touch that red button!"? Well,
DON'T

Hope this helps

Peter

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[PBM]

Hi John

Your message received load and clear. I shall not 'Empty Securely' again. Thanks for the explanation and calrification. (I slapped myself on the rist).

I am happy to do a remove and re-install process again and this time install all languages and then in the OS set to English.

Question. After doing that and if the Autoring Tab apprears in the Excell Presference, what then?

Regards,
Peter

Ps. It is -21 degrees celsius here. Chilly!

 

[John McGhie]

Hi Peter:

Make sure the OS is set to English (preferably, US English) BEFORE you
re-install. I.e. After you Remove, switch to US English and reboot.

The Authoring Tab will not appear in Excel It doesn't have one.

The Authoring "heading" will appear if you click Excel preferences. But
there's nothing about "Language" in the tabs under it.

In Excel, you set the Spelling Language using Tools>Language..." after
selecting the cells you want to change. Excel uses the Custom Dictionary
you create in Word.

Cheers

Hi John

Your message received load and clear. I shall not 'Empty Securely' again.
Thanks for the explanation and calrification. (I slapped myself on the rist).

I am happy to do a remove and re-install process again and this time install
all languages and then in the OS set to English.

Question. After doing that and if the Autoring Tab apprears in the Excell
Presference, what then?

Regards,
Peter

Ps. It is -21 degrees celsius here. Chilly!

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[PBM]

Hi John

Last evening I Removed Office and Emptied the Trash. Ran Permissions Repair. Set the OS language to US English and re-booted. Installed from the CD and installed latest Updates. Then In Ecell set the language to US English and ran Spelling Check.

Unfortunately, the glitch continues. Is it possible the CD is a dud or is there something else I can try?

Best regards and thanks again for staying with me on this one.

Peter

 

[John McGhie]

Hi Peter:

No, it's not possible the CD is a dud. The CDs are made on a printing
press. Each one is an exact copy of the gold master: if one is bad, every
CD in the world would be bad.

If there is a defect in the CD, it won't read at all. So if it reads,
there's no defect.

If you email me a copy of that spreadsheet, I'll take a look for you.

Cheers

Hi John

Last evening I Removed Office and Emptied the Trash. Ran Permissions Repair.
Set the OS language to US English and re-booted. Installed from the CD and
installed latest Updates. Then In Ecell set the language to US English and ran
Spelling Check.

Unfortunately, the glitch continues. Is it possible the CD is a dud or is
there something else I can try?

Best regards and thanks again for staying with me on this one.

Peter

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McGhie Information Engineering Pty Ltd
Sydney, Australia. | Ph: +61 (0)4 1209 1410
+61 4 1209 1410, mailto:[email protected]