Spell checker underlines correct words?

Abertech · External Since: May 04, 2005 Posts: 3

Running Windows 2000 with Office XP with all office updates installed.

The spell checker in word underlines in red correct words such as
"The". All settings in spell-checker options have been checked against
other pc's without this problem. Checking grammar is disabled (not
that has made any difference anyway). Keyboard & language settings are
all set to UK English.

Uhm...any ideas anybody? Apart from a complete re-install of office?

Charles Kenyon · External Since: Apr 16, 2004 Posts: 2212

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"Abertech" <abertech.TakeThisOut@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Running Windows 2000 with Office XP with all office updates installed.
>
> The spell checker in word underlines in red correct words such as
> "The". All settings in spell-checker options have been checked against
> other pc's without this problem. Checking grammar is disabled (not
> that has made any difference anyway). Keyboard & language settings are
> all set to UK English.
>
> Uhm...any ideas anybody? Apart from a complete re-install of office?
>

Abertech · External Since: May 04, 2005 Posts: 3

Hi,
Done that. 'Mark selected text' comes up as English (UK) and English
(US). All Input Locals, keyboard settings etc are English UK.

Abertech · External Since: May 04, 2005 Posts: 3

Yep. Sure its not that.

The red squiggle under the word goes away (obviously) if I untick
'check spelling as you type'. Also, if you go to Tools > Spelling and
Grammar F7 to do a spell check it will give you suggestions such as
'Theo' and 'He' for the 'misspelled' word "The". Its happening on
several PC's too not just one.

A removal of the whole office XP suite and re-installation of Office XP
has not resolved it either :0

Cindy M -WordMVP- · External Since: Jun 21, 2004 Posts: 1830

Hi Abertech,

Have you checked the language of the marked words? My guess is that the
text, itself, is not formatted as English, but as something else (French,
perhaps). Click in such a Word, then go to Tools/Language/Set language
and see what's selected?

> Running Windows 2000 with Office XP with all office updates installed.
>
> The spell checker in word underlines in red correct words such as
> "The". All settings in spell-checker options have been checked against
> other pc's without this problem. Checking grammar is disabled (not
> that has made any difference anyway). Keyboard & language settings are
> all set to UK English.
>
> Uhm...any ideas anybody? Apart from a complete re-install of office?
>

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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Peter D. Hipson · External Since: Jul 06, 2005 Posts: 2

On 5 May 2005 05:46:34 -0700, "Abertech" <abertech DeleteThis @hotmail.com> wrote:

>Hi,
>Done that. 'Mark selected text' comes up as English (UK) and English
>(US). All Input Locals, keyboard settings etc are English UK.

If you right click on one of these words, what are the suggested
spellings, if any?

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Cindy M -WordMVP- · External Since: Jun 21, 2004 Posts: 1830

Hi Abertech,

> Done that. 'Mark selected text' comes up as English (UK) and English
> (US). All Input Locals, keyboard settings etc are English UK.
>
OK... Search the system for the *.lex and *.dic files (lex = proofing
tool dic; dic = user's custom dic). Are there any *.exc in this
location? This would be an EXClude dictionary, which would have the
effect of marking correctly spelled words as incorrect if they're
listed in the file.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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