Spelling and Grammar causes word to crash.

[Kevin Rank]

I had an odd one today, and was hoping someone had fix.

I had a customer with a large document (226 pages). The application would
crash after several seconds. Finally noticed that the Spelling and Grammar
check was running, and it seemed to crash while it was running. I turned off
the checks, and that fixed the problem. Does anyone know of a fix for this?
Thanks for the help!

 

[Kevin Rank]

The issue has ONLY occured on this one document. It is a large table looking
document, with a lot of codes, so spelling AND grammer both find a TON of
"problems" that they highlight.

It only occurs after Spelling and Grammar have been going for a while. You
can open it, and stare at it, nothing happens. As soon as you put a
character in, Spelling and Grammar get to work, and then it crashes several
seconds later. And by crash, I mean, it just vanishes. No errors, no errors
in event viewer, it just closes.

I was TOLD it worked fine on another PC, though, this lady added some more
sections. I am wondering if there may be an upper limit on the number of
spelling and/or grammar mistakes shown.

When Spelling and grammar are turned off, for real-time checking, the
problem does not occur.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Two options would be to check "Hide spelling errors in this document" on the
Spelling & Grammar tab of Tools | Options or to select the specific text
that is codes and format it as "Do not check spelling or grammar" (Tools |
Language | Set Language).

 

[Kevin Rank]

This is what I have already done. Turned off Spelling and Grammar. I was
wondering if there was a known issue that I am seeing, and if there was a
hotfix for it. (turning off spelling and grammar, allowed the lady to finish
the document without any more crashes) Thanks!

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Neither of the options I describe is what I would call "turning off"
spelling and grammar. The first applies to only the specific document, and
the second applies only to the selected text. Neither has any effect on
other documents, which disabling spell checking would do.