Spell Check Bug Hangs

I try to send a message, but the spell checker hangs on certain words and I get the spinning wheel and can't even quit Mail -- have to do a forced quit. Any ideas what causes spell check to hang? I did notice it hung up on an abreviated word.

I have this same bug on a unibody macbook running 10.6.2. WHen sending with "check spelling on send" enabled, or when checking spelling on a newly-composed email, Mail hangs. The only way out is force quit.
I have gone into System Preferences->Language & Text->Text and selected "U.S. English" for the spelling (dictionary?) from the default of "Automatic by Language."
I tried trashing the prefs for mail (bad idea - restored them later).
I'm calling this a bug.

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There is one spell checker bug:
When I end a paragraph with a full stop and then press enter then the red underlined mis-spelled words are "unmarked" as in the red zig-zag line underneath the mis-spelled words disappears and I cant correct them any more or lose track which words are mis-spelled.
The red zig-zag lines underneath the mis-spelled words should never disappear until the word is spelled properly.
Thats a BUG.
To make the red underlines re-appear I have to rightclick....untick "Check Spelling" and then activate it again.
Thats too complicated.

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blarman,
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Bug? Mailto: in combination with Office 2013 Spell Checking.

Dear community,
For one of our sollutions we use the mailto protocol to send a hyperlink which users can use to automatically open a predefined new-email-window.
This works fine with Office Professional Plus 2010 [EN-US] (32bit) in combinatione with Microsoft Office Language Pack 2010 - Dutch/Nederlands (32bit).
However, Office Professional Plus 2013 [EN-US] (32bit), in combination with Microsoft Office Language Pack 2013 - Dutch/Nederlands (32bit), crashes whenever the spellingcheck is started.
The mailto-command we use to reproduce this problem is (enter command in Internet Explorer, open with Outlook):
mailto:[email protected]?subject=%20Actie%20vereist&body=%5b2103162%2f335159076094968874376260057075247208793%5d
During analyses we concluded:
- Office Configuration Analyzer Tool 1.2 (Full Scan) did not find any related issues.
- Spellchecker crashes while checking the text within the body.
- Uninstalling Microsoft Office Language Pack 2013 - Dutch/Nederlands solves the problem, but obviosly, we want to keep the Dutch spelling check functionality.
- Standard Englsh (U.S.) spellchecking functions without problems.
- This problem is reproducable on any computer running Office Professional Plus 2013 [EN-US] in combination with the Dutch (Nederlands) spelling check. Tried multiple hardware configurations (Intel based) and multiple OS's (Windows 7 Enterprise
(64bit), Windows 8.1 Enterprise (64bit), Windows 8.1 Pro (64bit). All with the same result.
Is there way to solve this issue, without loosing Outlook 2013 as client and Dutch Spelling Check capabilities?
Kind regards,
Leon Kandelaars.

Hi Steve,
Thanks for your reaction.
Q - Do you mean Outlook crashes when we click the Spelling & Grammar button under Review tab?
A - Yeah, if you try to edit the mail and have 'check spelling as you type' activated, it wil crash as well.
Q - If we copy the email body and paste it to a new email message, will this issue continue?
Does this   issue happen with other Office 2013 programs? Please try to use 'spell check' in word and check if the same issue occurs.
A - If you copy the generated body to a new email or Word 2013, the spelling check will in both cases crash the application.
Q - In addition, we can also have a look at the event log to see if we can find anything useful.
A - The crash generates an "Application" "Hang error". I've generated 2 (1 with Outlook, 1 with Word):
Generated mail, spellcheck crashes Outlook:
Log Name:      Application
Source:        Application Hang
Date:          10-3-2015 9:52:31
Event ID:      1002
Task Category: (101)
Level:         Error
Keywords:      Classic
User:          N/A
Computer:      xxxx.xxxx.xxx.nl
Description:
The program OUTLOOK.EXE version 15.0.4693.1000 stopped interacting with Windows and was closed. To see if more information about the problem is available, check the problem history in the Action Center control panel.
Process ID: 87c
Start Time: 01d05b0effb4e6f8
Termination Time: 0
Application Path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office15\OUTLOOK.EXE
Report Id: bf3cde85-c702-11e4-a8c6-485ab6f00dbb
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
<System>
    <Provider Name="Application Hang" />
    <EventID Qualifiers="0">1002</EventID>
    <Level>2</Level>
    <Task>101</Task>
    <Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
    <TimeCreated SystemTime="2015-03-10T08:52:31.000000000Z" />
    <EventRecordID>14242</EventRecordID>
    <Channel>Application</Channel>
    <Computer>xxxx.xxxx.xxx.nl</Computer>
    <Security />
</System>
<EventData>
    <Data>OUTLOOK.EXE</Data>
    <Data>15.0.4693.1000</Data>
    <Data>87c</Data>
    <Data>01d05b0effb4e6f8</Data>
    <Data>0</Data>
    <Data>C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office15\OUTLOOK.EXE</Data>
    <Data>bf3cde85-c702-11e4-a8c6-485ab6f00dbb</Data>
    <Binary>55006E006B006E006F0077006E0000000000</Binary>
</EventData>
</Event>
Copied body to Word, spellcheck crashes Word:
Log Name:      Application
Source:        Application Hang
Date:          10-3-2015 9:57:15
Event ID:      1002
Task Category: (101)
Level:         Error
Keywords:      Classic
User:          N/A
Computer:      xxxx.xxxx.xxx.nl
Description:
The program WINWORD.EXE version 15.0.4693.1000 stopped interacting with Windows and was closed. To see if more information about the problem is available, check the problem history in the Action Center control panel.
Process ID: 964
Start Time: 01d05b0fe8e683af
Termination Time: 0
Application Path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office15\WINWORD.EXE
Report Id: 6a7dd15f-c703-11e4-a8c6-485ab6f00dbb
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
<System>
    <Provider Name="Application Hang" />
    <EventID Qualifiers="0">1002</EventID>
    <Level>2</Level>
    <Task>101</Task>
    <Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
    <TimeCreated SystemTime="2015-03-10T08:57:15.000000000Z" />
    <EventRecordID>14247</EventRecordID>
    <Channel>Application</Channel>
    <Computer>xxxx.xxxx.xxx.nl</Computer>
    <Security />
</System>
<EventData>
    <Data>WINWORD.EXE</Data>
    <Data>15.0.4693.1000</Data>
    <Data>964</Data>
    <Data>01d05b0fe8e683af</Data>
    <Data>0</Data>
    <Data>C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office15\WINWORD.EXE</Data>
    <Data>6a7dd15f-c703-11e4-a8c6-485ab6f00dbb</Data>
    <Binary>55006E006B006E006F0077006E0000000000</Binary>
</EventData>
</Event>

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To report a bug, visit http://adobe.com/go/wish
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Mail spell check hangs on last misspelled word

Hi everybody,
I have a bit of a dilemma that is quite annoying, and I would love it not to be. My spell checker in Mail (OSX 10.4.10) hangs on the last word when spell checking a message. I am able to check my spelling and choose Ignore/Guess/Correct etc. but when it reaches the end of my email it stops. Spell check will identify the misspelled word, but will not allow me to make corrections or ignore the word like it used to. The familiar tone and empty spell check box is no longer to be found.
But this does work in textedit! No problems what so ever. I have tried to scour these forums and tried a few things, but still nothing. I have also noticed this problem occurs in another user account.
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You're welcome.
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Another long time user that has been with you for years has had enough, over to Opera where I can write an email without looking like an unprofessional  dummy that can't even use spell checker.
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You guys are loosing market share for a reason, we need a functional non bloated browser that doesn't freeze and crash all the time,  forget the fancy add-ons and themes, make the  basics work because from the techiest person to the most useless pleb luddite, we all need the basics to work or the browser is a useless piece of  crap.
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