[bksvol-discuss] Re: Spellchecking in Word

  • From: "Gerald Hovas" <GeraldHovas@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2006 09:37:43 -0500

Lora,

 

You need to mark the entire text using Ctrl-A, go into the Language menu
under Tools and open up the Set Language dialog box.  There you'll need to
make sure the option labeled "Do not Check spelling or grammar" is not
checked.  You may also need to mark the text you've selected as English
before you can get the spell checker to stop ignoring the text.  Word 2000
didn't require that, but I'm finding that Word 2003 does.  BTW, be sure that
the checkbox says not checked when you uncheck it because it's one of those
three state checkboxes.  It normally is blank when I first move to it,
changes to check on the first press of the spacebar, then to unchecked on
the second press.

 

You may also need to undo whatever changes you made under the Spelling
options, and there's also a button at the bottom of the Spelling options
which you may need to press which is changed to Recheck Document after the
spell checker has been run.  This button will allow you to start over from
scratch with a spell check.

 

Let me know if this doesn't work, and I'll help you make sure all of your
options under Set Language and Spelling are set properly.

 

HTH

 

Gerald

 

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[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Lorana Chanicut
Sent: Sunday, June 18, 2006 8:11 AM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Spellchecking in Word

 

I'm trying to spell check a book I downloaded for validation, but Word says
that certain text has been marked and will be skipped during the spell
check.  It then doesn't spell check anything.

 

I went into Tools, Options, and tried resetting the spell checker.  Now, I
no longer receive this message, but Word still won't spell check the
document.  I already know there are errors, because I went and changed all
the 1's to I's, and found misspellings of Laurell K. Hamilton on the page
headers.

 

How do I convince Word that I really do want to spell check the entire
document, despite what it thinks?

 

Thanks,

 

Lora

 

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