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Since updating to the new Pages of iWork 08, I've started having consistent problems opening Word documents sent to me from Windows using colleagues. When I open the .doc in Pages, an error message appears saying "Alert: Couldn't contact Spell Checker." When I dismiss the error message, it immediately pops up again. It is impossible to dismiss the error message long enough to close the document or even to quit Pages, so I have to Force Quit Pages. Can anyone tell me how to fix this problem and be able to open Word documents in Pages again? Thanks!
WordService is not a spell checker. It adds various actions to the Services menu, such as changing to smart quotes, changing to lowercase, etc. I've been using it successfully since Pages 1 came out.
I suggest deleting/moving/archiving/something with that CocoAspell file & restart your Mac. It very welll could be the culprit. It's not the current version of these third-party spell checkers that are a problem. The problem seems to be left over bits after a spell checker is removed that is seen when you open a Word document, but the original program isn't found.
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