spell check and auto correct do not work on a specific doc..

Carol · External Since: Aug 14, 2006 Posts: 93

I have a document that I received from another user, and am currently making
changes to it. The auto correct and spell checker do not catch errors. I
checked to make sure that the correct options for auto correct and spell
checker are turned on, and tested in a new document that they do work.

I believe that somehow the auto correct and spell check options are not
functioning in this document specifically; is there a way to turn those
options on?

Carol

garfield-n-odie [MVP] · External Since: Feb 13, 2006 Posts: 1969

Open the Word document where this problem occurs. Press Ctrl+A
to select all of the text, click on Tools | Language | Set
Language | <choose your language> | uncheck the "Detect language
automatically" and "Do not check spelling or grammar" boxes |
Default | OK, and press F7 to rerun spellcheck. If you are
prompted to save changes to your Normal.dot global template, say yes.

Carol wrote:

> I have a document that I received from another user, and am currently making
> changes to it. The auto correct and spell checker do not catch errors. I
> checked to make sure that the correct options for auto correct and spell
> checker are turned on, and tested in a new document that they do work.
>
> I believe that somehow the auto correct and spell check options are not
> functioning in this document specifically; is there a way to turn those
> options on?
>
> Carol

Carol · External Since: Aug 14, 2006 Posts: 93

Just wanted to check--I do want to make a change to my Normal.dot global
template? I thought there were very few instances where you want to make a
change to the the normal.dot global template.

Carol

"garfield-n-odie [MVP]" wrote:

> Open the Word document where this problem occurs. Press Ctrl+A
> to select all of the text, click on Tools | Language | Set
> Language | <choose your language> | uncheck the "Detect language
> automatically" and "Do not check spelling or grammar" boxes |
> Default | OK, and press F7 to rerun spellcheck. If you are
> prompted to save changes to your Normal.dot global template, say yes.
>
> Carol wrote:
>
> > I have a document that I received from another user, and am currently making
> > changes to it. The auto correct and spell checker do not catch errors. I
> > checked to make sure that the correct options for auto correct and spell
> > checker are turned on, and tested in a new document that they do work.
> >
> > I believe that somehow the auto correct and spell check options are not
> > functioning in this document specifically; is there a way to turn those
> > options on?
> >
> > Carol
>
>

garfield-n-odie [MVP] · External Since: Feb 13, 2006 Posts: 1969

Not directly to Normal.dot, but the "Default" button will change
the language and spellcheck settings in both the problem document
and Normal.dot.

Carol wrote:

> Just wanted to check--I do want to make a change to my Normal.dot global
> template? I thought there were very few instances where you want to make a
> change to the the normal.dot global template.
>
> Carol
>
> "garfield-n-odie [MVP]" wrote:
>
>
>>Open the Word document where this problem occurs. Press Ctrl+A
>>to select all of the text, click on Tools | Language | Set
>>Language | <choose your language> | uncheck the "Detect language
>>automatically" and "Do not check spelling or grammar" boxes |
>>Default | OK, and press F7 to rerun spellcheck. If you are
>>prompted to save changes to your Normal.dot global template, say yes.
>>
>>Carol wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I have a document that I received from another user, and am currently making
>>>changes to it. The auto correct and spell checker do not catch errors. I
>>>checked to make sure that the correct options for auto correct and spell
>>>checker are turned on, and tested in a new document that they do work.
>>>
>>>I believe that somehow the auto correct and spell check options are not
>>>functioning in this document specifically; is there a way to turn those
>>>options on?
>>>
>>>Carol
>>
>>