Spellchecker red wavy line not appearing

[jhonan]

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

In Excel 2008 I've tried every preference setting I can think of and checked that the proofing tools are all installed. But for the life of me I can't make the wavy red line appear under misspelled words! It works in Powerpoint and Word, but not Excel.

(I've installed the latest updates of OSX and Office)

Any help would be much appreciated.

 

[JE McGimpsey]

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

In Excel 2008 I've tried every preference setting I can think of and checked
that the proofing tools are all installed. But for the life of me I can't
make the wavy red line appear under misspelled words! It works in Powerpoint
and Word, but not Excel.

(I've installed the latest updates of OSX and Office)

Any help would be much appreciated.

XL does not include this feature (I don't recall it being in any
version, Win or Mac...)

 

[jhonan]

By golly you're right! ;-)

I just checked in Excel 2002 on WinXP and it's not there either, so I don't know what put that idea into my head.

Thanks for the reply!

 

[Carl Witthoft]

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

In Excel 2008 I've tried every preference setting I can think of and checked
that the proofing tools are all installed. But for the life of me I can't
make the wavy red line appear under misspelled words! It works in Powerpoint
and Word, but not Excel.

(I've installed the latest updates of OSX and Office)

Any help would be much appreciated.

Consider yourself lucky.

No, seriously. It's a mistake in ANY application to let final proofing
get in the way of editing, composing, etc.

Worry about spelling errors after you're done building the workbook, and
then just grab the spellchecker off the menu.