Word 2004 v11.0 spell check

[Willy Wilson]

Recently installed MS Office on Mac iBook G4. Word, Excel and PowerPoint all
work except: when Word spelling/grammar checker is applied to entire
document, it causes Word to quit. Using the checker on a single word or
sentence is ok.
Anyone else have this problem, or know how to fix it?

 

[Bill Weylock]

Are you by any chance selecting the entire docuument and then doing a spell
check? That might crash the program I would think if it's a long doc.

The way to use it is to start spell check with nothing (or not very much)
selected. If you want to check only a selection, you're find with a
paragraph or a few pages. But it's as easy to put the cursor where you want
to start the check and simply quit when it's moved past the point you care
about.

Spell checking a selection probably loads the entire selection into RAM
before checking it. That could be intense with a large doc.

Hope this helps.


Best,


- Bill

 

[Willy Wilson]

Bill - no, it's a short doc, but your post led me to try something and I found
a solution, or at least a workaround, to the problem. I wasn't selecting the
entire document, merely positioning the cursor on the first line then
choosing Spelling & Grammar from the Tools menu. This works under older
versions of Word under Windows, but apparently not on the Mac.
When I choose Select All from the Edit menu, then do the spell check, it
works ok.
Thanks - Willy

 

[Bill Weylock]

I'm glad you've found a work-around, but I don't have the problem at all.

As others have asked me recently, have you checked to be sure this happens
in all documents?

After that, I think I'd best defer to others.

 

[Willy Wilson]

I read some other posts on Word2004 crashing, and found one from
McGimpsey that recommended quitting Word, deleting the Normal template,
and allowing Word to rebuild it on restart. This seems to have worked.
Willy

 

[Bill Weylock]

Great! Glad you got through it.

I read some other posts on Word2004 crashing, and found one from
McGimpsey that recommended quitting Word, deleting the Normal template,
and allowing Word to rebuild it on restart. This seems to have worked.
Willy