Word XP spellchecker stops on XP Home

[Mike]

I have a customer with a new PC with XP Home and Word XP installed.
The Word came from an Office XP Pro CD. He is also using Outlook, not
Outlook Express.

When he boots up, the spellchecker works for an hour or so. Then, it
seems to no longer use the English(US) dictionary. It just says there
are no spelling errors when there obviously are. After re-booting the
system, it works fine for awhile.

He uses Word Perfect for documents, but we had to install Word XP so
that the Outlook spellchecker would work.

Anyone know why the spellchecker would stop working? And then work
after a reboot?

Mike Loftis
CRC Data Technologies
Destin, FL

 

[Mike Williams]

I have a customer with a new PC with XP Home and Word XP installed.
The Word came from an Office XP Pro CD. He is also using Outlook, not
Outlook Express.

When he boots up, the spellchecker works for an hour or so. Then, it
seems to no longer use the English(US) dictionary. It just says there
are no spelling errors when there obviously are. After re-booting the
system, it works fine for awhile.

He uses Word Perfect for documents, but we had to install Word XP so
that the Outlook spellchecker would work.

If Outlook is installed properly then it will have the same spell-checking
components available as in Word or any other Office application. The
word-breaking behaviour varies slightly between Outlook email editors
(default RTF, HTML and WordMail), but the basic files and settings are all
the same.

The usual reason for skipped spelling errors is that the text is marked to
skip spelling. This may occur in his case if text is pasted from another
application. The text may be selected and re-tagged as English US using the
Set Language dialog. This is all covered in Help under the Spelling topics.