spellcheck w2003 (Word 2003)

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Hi,
When I do a spellcheck on my document in Word 2003 the programm stops responding and comes back with an autorecovery of the document.
I disabled the automatic check, can’t work with that this way. But also when I do a check by hand as soon as the doc is completed (and saved), Word has the
same behavior.
It’s the Dutch version of Office 2003 installed on XPPro.
Any idea?
George

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Hi George:
I’m not sure what would cause this, but I would start by following the steps in post 197827.
Hope this helps,

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Phil, thanx.
Glad this is a new machine, it took me about 15 minutes to complete these tasks.
BUT: didn’t help I’m afraid.
Anything else?
George

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Hi George:
I could find nothing on the Microsoft Knowledge Base about this. Are you saying that when you start Word from the command line (winword.exe /a), you still get the problem? Try rebooting & then End Task on everything except Explorer & systray. Then see if you can fire up Word & do a spellcheck. This may show that some other program is interferring. You could try Detect & Repair (assuming that it exists in Word 2003). Or even reinstalling the proofing tools. Other than that, I’m out of ideas.
Regards,

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Hi Phil,
Thanx for thinking with me. I has to do with the proofing tools.
I guess it’s because I had to leave Outlook 98 on that machine it’s shared files stayed there too. Outlook 98 was an upgrade from 97 whick was installed with Office 97. I found normal.dot in the old dir of 97. For compatibility (syncing with a psion) they need outlook 98. They settled for turning of spellcheck. They can live with it.
So, for now this thread can be closed. Thnx again. George

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Hi Phil,
Thanx for thinking with me. I has to do with the proofing tools.
I guess it’s because I had to leave Outlook 98 on that machine it’s shared files stayed there too. Outlook 98 was an upgrade from 97 whick was installed with Office 97. I found normal.dot in the old dir of 97. For compatibility (syncing with a psion) they need outlook 98. They settled for turning of spellcheck. They can live with it.
So, for now this thread can be closed. Thnx again. George

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Hi George:
I could find nothing on the Microsoft Knowledge Base about this. Are you saying that when you start Word from the command line (winword.exe /a), you still get the problem? Try rebooting & then End Task on everything except Explorer & systray. Then see if you can fire up Word & do a spellcheck. This may show that some other program is interferring. You could try Detect & Repair (assuming that it exists in Word 2003). Or even reinstalling the proofing tools. Other than that, I’m out of ideas.
Regards,

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Phil, thanx.
Glad this is a new machine, it took me about 15 minutes to complete these tasks.
BUT: didn’t help I’m afraid.
Anything else?
George

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Hi George:
I’m not sure what would cause this, but I would start by following the steps in post 197827.
Hope this helps,

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