Examine the Proofing Tools portion of the Windows registry on a known good and a known bad system. The Proofing Tools information in the Windows registry is located in "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\
Shared Tools\Proofing Tools\1.0." On the system whose spelling checker did not work, there existed a subkey named "Override" within the "1.0" key. The known good systems did not have an "Override" subkey.
After digging a little deeper, I noticed that the two REG_SZ values in the "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Proofing Tools\1.0\Override\en-US" key pointed to files that were non-existent.
So to solve the problem, all youneed to do was to delete the
"HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Proofing Tools\1.0\Override" registry key. Once this was done, simply by closing and restarting Word, you are able to verify that spell check is once again working.
While for three desktops this may not be a big deal, if you need to remove the Override registry key from dozens to thousands of computers, you probably want an easier way. By default, non-administrators have write permission to their account (HKEY_Current_User) registry hives, so an easy way to apply this fix would be by using the Reg command in your login script. For this specific problem, you ould need to run the Reg command with the following syntax:
Reg delete "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Proofing Tools\1.0\Override" /f
The /f switch forces the command to delete the key without prompting for user confirmation.
With multi-language support ingrained in the Office 2007 proofing tools, it's also important to ensure that a user's Word environment is not set to use the wrong language by default. You can verify the default language settings for a user's Word environment by following these steps:
1.Open Word 2007.
2.Click the Office icon in the top left corner of the window and then click the Word Options button.
3.In the Word Options dialog box, click the Language Settings button.
4.Finally, ensure that the correct language is selected in the Primary Editing Language drop-down menu.
Please post back if you have more problems or questions.
