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Office 2007 Word Spell Checker Does Not Work

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by marshallcallen

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I have an academic version of Office 2007 installed on Vista Ultimate 64 bit. MS Word's Spell Checker does not work. I have checked that the Style does not defeat the spell checker, that the language is US English, that the AutoCorrect settings should enable checking as typed, I have no custom dictionaries installed or enabled, etc. Googling has got me nowhere, searching in TechRepublic (a quick attempt) came up empty.

Any and all suggestions are greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Marshall

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by marshallcallen

Of course, two mintues after posting this, I found that someone had posted elsewhere the possibility that installing Service Pack 1 (SP1) for Office 2007 disables the Spell Checker. I confirmed that another system in-house without SP1 does have Spell Check functional. Does anyone have a solution other than uninstalling / reinstalling Office 2007 in order to have Spell Checker functional without SP1?

by thumbsup2

It may be the same for Office 2007, but in Office 2003, if you go to add/remove programs and click remove, it brings up a menu to add/remove additional components. Click the custom install and make sure the spell checking functions are all enabled.

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