SpellCheck Not working,

[Smurfy]

I have recently bout a macbook and even more recently bought microsoft office 2008 for mac for it. My word has defaulted to 'Irish' in the language preferences but every time i do a compatibility check it tells me it does not recognise the language and therefore wont perform a spell check. However every time i change it to english it doesn't save. The compatibility check is never clear due to the fact every time it advises me to change anything the changes never save.
Could someone please tell me what i'm doing wrong?

 

[A Friend]

It sounds like Word thinks you're working in Irish (which would be a neat trick, since Mac Office doesn't speak Irish; Windows Office does, which is why it's available in the language list, but I digress).

Try this - to set US English (or some other supported language) as the default language for all your new documents)...

1. On the Tools menu, click Language.
2. In the Language dialog, under "Mark selected text as", click "English (US)"
3. Click the "Default" button, and then when it asks you to confirm that you want to change the default language to English (US), click OK. Click OK once more to exit the dialog.

Note that this should set the language to English for _new_ documents you create. If you have existing documents that are set to Irish (or some other language), and you want to set them to English, you'll need to select the text in the document and then do steps 1 and 2 above for each of those documents.

Hope that helps.

 

[DJDREX]

I am having a similar issue with Entourage 2008, where the red squiggly lines do not appear under misspelled words. It simply doesn't spell check at all. This only happens in Entourage 2008, but works fine in Word/PowerPoint/etc. I have compared to identical Macbook Pro systems where the Office 2004 was upgraded to 2008, but still has issues even though the settings are exactly the same.

 

[Clive Huggan]

Somebody here *might* answer, but you'd be better off posing this question
in the microsoft.public.mac.office.entourage group.

Cheers,
Clive Huggan
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