Spell Checker Doesn't Find Spelling Errors

Spell Checker in my Office 2007 apps (Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook)
wouldn't work. When I opened a file that has spelling errors, I could see the
red squiggly underline very briefly under the misspelled words, but that
underline disappears quickly. When I ran Spell Checker, it erroneously said
there were no errors. The Grammar Checker (green squiggly) worked fine. All
my proofing settings seemed to be OK, my language was set properly, and my
registry had no Override key for spelling.

I had a pre-beta version of Office 2010 installed on the same PC, and its
Spell Checker worked fine. MVP Suzanne Barnhill suggested that having the two
different versions of Office installed side by side might cause a conflict
with the proofing tools. Rack one up for Suzanne -- I uninstalled Office 2010
and Spell Checker now runs fine in Office 2007.

Who knows whether MS will remedy this situation in the upcoming Office 2010
beta or in the final release. So heads up to anyone who would like to retain
2007 when installing 2010 on the same machine. (I don't know whether or how
throwing Office 2003 into the mix, such as a 2003/2010 combo or even a
2003/2007 combo, would affect this issue.)

Comments from anyone who can shed more light on this would be appreciated.

I have all three -- Word 2003, 2007, and beta 2010 -- running
side-by-side here. The spell checker works fine in all of them. I
think your problem was just with the pre-beta.

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On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 09:48:03 -0700, hooroy
<hooroy.DeleteThis@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>Spell Checker in my Office 2007 apps (Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook)
>wouldn't work. When I opened a file that has spelling errors, I could see the
>red squiggly underline very briefly under the misspelled words, but that
>underline disappears quickly. When I ran Spell Checker, it erroneously said
>there were no errors. The Grammar Checker (green squiggly) worked fine. All
>my proofing settings seemed to be OK, my language was set properly, and my
>registry had no Override key for spelling.
>
>I had a pre-beta version of Office 2010 installed on the same PC, and its
>Spell Checker worked fine. MVP Suzanne Barnhill suggested that having the two
>different versions of Office installed side by side might cause a conflict
>with the proofing tools. Rack one up for Suzanne -- I uninstalled Office 2010
>and Spell Checker now runs fine in Office 2007.
>
>Who knows whether MS will remedy this situation in the upcoming Office 2010
>beta or in the final release. So heads up to anyone who would like to retain
>2007 when installing 2010 on the same machine. (I don't know whether or how
>throwing Office 2003 into the mix, such as a 2003/2010 combo or even a
>2003/2007 combo, would affect this issue.)
>
>Comments from anyone who can shed more light on this would be appreciated.