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I have an admittedly old copy version of Microsoft Word (v. X for Macs, Service Release 1 (2001)). It did work perfectly fine on my iBook, which used Tiger. And it's working perfectly fine on this new MacBook--except that spellcheck does not work. In fact, when I go to Preferences, the "Spelling and Grammar" section is ghosted--I can't even select it.
Other relevant notes:
-- Oddly enough, even though I can't spellcheck, it Word does make some automatic spelling corrections. For instance, if I type "waht," it will immediately change it to "what."
-- The language is automatically set to English (US).
-- The automatic spellcheck that Leopard applies to everything else (including the Safari text box I'm typing in now) works fine.
Thoughts?

MorClych -
1st - Is your Word X updated to the latest version (10.1.8)? If not you can download the latest update file for Office X for Mac (comprehensive, replaced all others) at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=fea9fd8a-ea16-4b3c-9381 -18a389d5599a&DisplayLang=en
2nd - The best Word for Mac help site I have seen is http://word.mvps.org/Mac/TroubleshootingIndex.html
3rd - The official Microsoft Forum for Word is: http://www.officeformac.com/ProductForums/Word/
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