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    Hi. About 5 weeks ago my Outlook 2010 (part of a full install of Office Pro 2010 done 2 years ago) began showing in-line spelling errors. These errors showed up in correctly-spelled words in the message body. After many frustrating attempts to solve the issue, I gave up and finally installed the Office 365 suite, hoping this would fix the problem. It didn’t. I’ve copied some nonsense text here as follows. The parts of words that are being flagged by the red squiggly underlines I’ve put in bold face. As you can see from the last line, for example, “Susie” and “Susieare both mis-identified as misspelled AND they are mis-identified differently. The same with 2 instances of the correctly-spelled “forgiven/Forgiven” in lines 2 and 3:

    Beware the stormer.

    Reformed, forgiven, aided by rapscallions and ego boosting forgiven peoples of all estimations and assorted sizes.

    Forgiven, not forgotten, able to enhance, able to demonstrate, able to forgive

    Admonishments aside, towards forgiven and, forgotten,

    Ebullience, aloud, afar, indelible, Susie, Eleanor, Diana, Susie, Susie, Susie, Martha, all forgotten

    Additionally, when spell-check runs after pressing Send, it flags the red-squiggly portion of words as misspellings, and highlights “forgiven/Forgiven” and so on and asks the usual ignore/correct/add to dictionary query buttons.

    I have 2 computers, both originally running Outlook 2010 as part of the Pro suite, and now both running Office 365. On one computer, there are NO problems with Outlook; on the other the problem persists. Both running Windows 8.1, all latest updates installed. Both Intel i-5 cpus.

    This is driving me crazy! Any help or fixes deeply appreciated. Many thanks!

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    • #1515196

      Try running “change” (via programmes and Features in the Windows Control Panel) for your Outlook installation to attempt to repair it. (Or “change” for your Office Suite if Outlook is part of it. This might fix things.

      My Rig: AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 12-Core CPU; ASUS Cross Hair VIII Formula Mobo; Win 11 Pro (64 bit)-(UEFI-booted); 32GB RAM; 2TB Corsair Force Series MP600 Pro 2TB PCIe Gen 4.0 M.2 NVMe SSD. 1TB SAMSUNG 960 EVO M.2 NVME SSD; MSI GeForce RTX 3090 VENTUS 3X 24G OC; Microsoft 365 Home; Condusiv SSDKeeper Professional; Acronis Cyberprotect, VMWare Workstation Pro V17.5. HP 1TB USB SSD External Backup Drive). Dell G-Sync G3223Q 144Hz Monitor.

      • #1515349

        Try running “change” (via programmes and Features in the Windows Control Panel) for your Outlook installation to attempt to repair it. (Or “change” for your Office Suite if Outlook is part of it. This might fix things.

        Thanks for your response!

        Sorry I didn’t mention it in my original post, but I had already tried that to no avail. Still struggling with the annoyance of this problem…. Arrgghhh

    • #1516466

      Is it possible switching to another dictionary (US to UK) and then back again would correct it?

      • #1516565

        Is it possible switching to another dictionary (US to UK) and then back again would correct it?

        Thanks for the suggestion, but it had no effect. I was also having keyboard problems (auto-switching to US Keyboard, despite having deleted that keyboard etc.), which may or may not have been related. My solution, in the end, was to 1) uninstall Office 365 using a Fixit from MS, 2) create a new USER account on the machine, 3) Re-install Office 365 and 4) delete my “old” USER account/profile.

        Voila! No more problems. All working a treat now. All’s been working well for 5 days now, no funny part word red squigglies, no unexpected random keyboard switching so far, and all’s working a treat. Thanks to all who replied.

    • #1517673

      @Perplexed!: Thanks for posting the solution (glad you got it sorted out!)

      My Rig: AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 12-Core CPU; ASUS Cross Hair VIII Formula Mobo; Win 11 Pro (64 bit)-(UEFI-booted); 32GB RAM; 2TB Corsair Force Series MP600 Pro 2TB PCIe Gen 4.0 M.2 NVMe SSD. 1TB SAMSUNG 960 EVO M.2 NVME SSD; MSI GeForce RTX 3090 VENTUS 3X 24G OC; Microsoft 365 Home; Condusiv SSDKeeper Professional; Acronis Cyberprotect, VMWare Workstation Pro V17.5. HP 1TB USB SSD External Backup Drive). Dell G-Sync G3223Q 144Hz Monitor.

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