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by stuart

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I have a w2k server and 15 98/95 workstations running terminal services to the server. When I initially set the users up in the active directory users and computers screen they all had administrator rights. I then installed office 97. Since then i have removed the administrator rights for all but 2 of the users. My problem is that the rest of the users now cannot access the spell checker function of the office product. When i try to install it for any particular user I go to the set language option on the tools menu of word. This does not do anything and there is no error message. I have tried everything short of a complete uninstall of Office but cannot get it to work.

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by timber

Sounds like a permissions issue. I would make sure all users have at least read and execute permissions to the MS Office directory. I don't believe that they need to write to the dictionary but you may want to keep that possibility in mind also..

by abubin

Yup. Looks like problem with permissions.
You can go make Office2000 folder on each machine to give full permissions to everyone or that particular user that is using that machine. Make sure to check to replicate this info to subfolders. But the problem is that the spell checker could be located in other directories such as Microsoft Shared directory. Try setting that directory as well.

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