Hi MeTed,
Have you worked through the article on language formatting and spell checking
in the "Tips" section of my website? That should walk you through how Word
handles this, and may show where the disconnect is occurring.
My best guess would be that you've specified a different language than the
Windows default, and Windows is overriding the language (on the empty
document). If you enter some text in the template (or a document), select it,
apply the language you want to use, then press F7 does spell check work?
> I have about 50 PCs all with XP SP2, Office2K3 SP2. We created a gaggle of
> custom templates for use in our company. We just discovered that spell
> checking doesn't work for these templates. Symptoms:
>
> 1. I open the 'quote.dot' template directly, spell checking doesn't work.
> 2. I open the 'quote.dot' (forcing a new document based on that template to
> open), spell check doesn't work.
> 3. In both cases above, I copy and paste the content as formatted and
> unformatted text into a new document, spell check doesn't work.
> 4. Documents created off 'normal.dot' spell check just fine.
>
> I've tried setting Language multiple times (Tools-->Language-->Set Language:
> English+unchecking both boxes) to no avail.
>
Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005)
http://www.word.mvps.org
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