Word 2007 Spellcheck Problem

I'm finding that all my new documents have spellchecking turned off in some
way that I cannot see how to turn it back on.

Some example scenarios:

Create a new document. Type in some garbage. There's no red underline.

Save the document as Word 2003. Open it in Word 2003 (on another machine).
Still no red underline.

Create a new document in Word 2003 and paste in the contents of the original
document. Still no red underline.

Paste into the new document wit Keep Text Only. The red underline appears on
the misspelled word.

Save this document in Word 2003 and open it in Word 2007. The red underline
appears.

Conclusions:

There is some 'formatting' type of setting that is common to both Word 2003
and Word 2005 that inhibits spellchecking and is turned on by defualt in
(,my installation of) Word 2007 but not in 2003.

Any idea what the setting is and how I change it?

Thanks,

Jasper.

Most likely, your Normal.dotx template has "do not check spelling"
applied to the single (empty) paragraph, so anything you type into a
new blank document acquires that setting. The setting stays with the
text through conversion to 2003 and copy/paste, but is discarded by
pasting as text only.

In a blank document in Word 2007, select the lone paragraph mark. On
the Review ribbon, in the Proofing group, click the Set Language
button. In the dialog, I think you'll find that the "Do not check
spelling or grammar" box is checked. Uncheck it, and then click the
Default button to apply the setting to the Normal template. Click Yes
in the message that asks whether to change the default, and click OK
to close the Language dialog.

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On Fri, 5 Jan 2007 18:49:23 -0000, "Jasper Kent"
<jasper_kent RemoveThis @hotmail.com> wrote:

>I'm finding that all my new documents have spellchecking turned off in some
>way that I cannot see how to turn it back on.
>
>Some example scenarios:
>
>Create a new document. Type in some garbage. There's no red underline.
>
>Save the document as Word 2003. Open it in Word 2003 (on another machine).
>Still no red underline.
>
>Create a new document in Word 2003 and paste in the contents of the original
>document. Still no red underline.
>
>Paste into the new document wit Keep Text Only. The red underline appears on
>the misspelled word.
>
>Save this document in Word 2003 and open it in Word 2007. The red underline
>appears.
>
>Conclusions:
>
>There is some 'formatting' type of setting that is common to both Word 2003
>and Word 2005 that inhibits spellchecking and is turned on by defualt in
>(,my installation of) Word 2007 but not in 2003.
>
>Any idea what the setting is and how I change it?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Jasper.