Posted March 31, 201014 yr "Beth Melton" wrote: > First, click the Microsoft Office Button, close it, and see if spell check > begins to work. (Believe it or not, there's a slight bug with spell check > and the Microsoft Office Button, you need to click it once for it to start > working. Note that this only applies to new installations and it will only > happen once.) > > If that doesn't work then if no custom spell checker have been installed on > the computer, exit Word, and then backup and delete the following registry > key: > > HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Shared > Tools\ProofingTools\1.0\Override\en-US > > This key will be rebuilt the next time you start Word. Please let us know if > this resolves the issue. This resolution, found by Bob Buckland on another > forum, has been only recently been confirmed by Microsoft. :-) > > Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for > assistance by email can not be acknowledged. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Beth Melton > Microsoft Office MVP > > Co-author of Word 2007 Inside Out: > http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/books/9801.aspx#AboutTheBook > > Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word > TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/ > MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/ > > "JaclynK" wrote in message > news:B5D35F5F-7405-4CF8-AD9B-25AA124710A8@microsoft.com... > > When creating a new document in word 2007, obvious mispelled words are not > > picked up by the spell checker. All settings and options have been double > > check by my IT department, however it still does not work. The message > > states > > " The spelling and grammer check is complete" but the mistakes are not > > picked > > up. When I used the trial version I did not have any problems with this, > > however once my office bought the full version spell check is no longer > > working. Any help or ideas would be greatly appreciated. > > >
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