Spell Checker - Office

Hello,
I am searching for an automatic spell checker that works on Microsoft Office - in particular Word and Outlook.
I want when I am writing e-mails or documents in Word to see the mistaken words underlined. This goes for English and Bulgarian languages.
Thank you!
Best,
Georgi

g.petrushev wrote:
I am searching for an automatic spell checker that works on Microsoft Office - in particular Word
Have you really not already looked at the menus Tools > Spelling and Grammar and Tools > Language?
If that doesn't do the trick, search/ask at
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/mac/forum/macword

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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>

Spell Check is not working in MS Office 2007

Hi All,
Spell Check option is not working in MS Office 2007 applications like Word and Outlook.
Surprisingly, when we reply to any email, spell check is working fine, but when we are typing New email, Spell Check is not working.
OS: Windows XP Service Pack 3
Gone through Google and modified Registry keys, updated MS Office 2007 hot-fixes, reinstalled MS Office 2007, but nothing worked.
Could anyone help us on this issue.
Thanks.

Step
1
Go to Office Button > Word options > Proofing
> Custome dictionary > Make
sure CUSTOM.DIC is checked.
Step
2
Click on Office Button | Word Options | Proofing
| check the
"Check spelling as you type" and "Check grammar with spelling" boxes |
uncheck the "Hide spelling errors in this document only" and "Hide
grammar errors in this document only" boxes | OK.
Step
3
Open a document that has this problem, press Ctrl+A
to select all
of the text
Click on Review tab | Proofing: Set Language |
language> | uncheck the "Detect language automatically" and "Do not
check spelling or grammar" boxes | Default | OK.
Click on Office Button | Word Options | Proofing | check the
"Check spelling as you type" and "Check grammar with spelling" boxes |
uncheck the "Hide spelling errors in this document only" and "Hide
grammar errors in this document only" boxes | OK.
Step
4
In your Windows registry, if the key
"HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Proofing
Tools\1.0\Override" exists, delete it.
http://redfireworkz.blogspot.com/2010/10/spell-check-does-not-work-in-office.html

Spell Check Not Working on Office 2011 for Mac (Word) from Today!

Help please
Jumped on my Mac tonight to right a report in Word (2011 for Mac), been using this before Xmas and in years past other Office for Mac versions. Never any problems with the spell check before i.e. red wiggly line appears so you can review or amend as necessary, but no red line tonight!
I have being playing around with the settings > preferences > spelling - I leave the "Hide spelling errors in this document" unchecked, but still it dosent seem to work anymore.
I am the only person who uses my Mac and I haven't changed any settings so I can not understand why this is happening now.
If anyone can help, please do as I miss my reb wijgly anb mi speling is rudish without ip!
Thanks John

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Office 2010 spell check not working

Hi,
I cant get my spell check to work or underline any incorrect words. I have tried reinstalling word, deleting normal.dotm also the suggestions here
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/office2010/thread/eb94c560-9bc3-4b51-a2dc-bee5cef46bb0 and here
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970826 and still no joy.
If I email a doc to somebody else their spell checker will also not pick up and wrong spellings in my doc
Any ideas?
Celtic

Hi,
Thank you for using
Microsoft Office for IT Professionals Forums.
From your description, please try the following methods:
1.
Open the problem document.
2.
Press the
Ctrl+A keys to select the entire text.
3.
From the
Review tab, select Language then Set Proofing Language…
4.
In the
Language dialog make sure the correct language is selected.
5.
Verify the checkbox
Do not check spelling or grammar is unchecked.
6.
Click
OK.
7.
Click the
File tab.
8.
Under
Help, click Options.
9.
Under
Correcting spelling and grammar in Word, click Recheck Document.
10.
To recheck the spelling and grammar, click
Yes when you see the following message: This operation resets the spelling checker and the grammar checker so that Word will recheck words and grammar you previously checked and chose to ignore. Do you want to continue?
11.
In the
Word Options dialog box, click OK to get back to the document.
12.
On the
Review tab, in the Proofing group, click
Spelling & Grammar.
Please take your time to try the suggestions and let me know the results at your earliest convenience. If anything is unclear or if there is anything
I can do for you, please feel free to let me know.
Sincerely
Rex Zhang
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Spell Check Not working in Office 2013

I can not get spell check to work at all in Outlook nor Word documents. I need real basic instructions please.
I tried this idea from a prior post, but there is no dictionary file to pick. Any other ideas?
If so, back up all these files. Add the custom dictionaries via:
Click the
File tab.
Click
Options.
Click
Proofing.
Make sure the
Suggest from main dictionary only check box is cleared.
Click
Custom Dictionaries.
Click
Add.
Locate the folder containing the custom dictionary you want, and then double-click the dictionary file.

I tried this idea from a prior post, but there is no dictionary file to pick.
Are there any dictionaries listed in the Dictionary List when you click
File > Options > Proofing > Custom Dictionaries? If so, please make sure the check boxes before these dictionaries are ticked.
Do you mean the Spell Check not working as you type or after you click the
Spelling & Grammar button?
If you mean spell check not working as you type, please go to File > Options > Proofing and select the check box before "Check spelling as you type".
If above didn't apply, please try to rename your Word template file (Normal.dotm) to Normal.old and then restart Word to check if it helps.
In addition, we can also try to run a repair of your Office installation to check the result. See:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-in/excel-help/repair-office-programs-HA010357402.aspx
For more troubleshooting steps regarding spell check not working, please refer:
http://www.timeatlas.com/5_minute_tips/annoyances/word_spell_check_woes#.U2ctxf6KAic
Please Note: Since the web site is not hosted by Microsoft, the link may change without notice. Microsoft
does not guarantee the accuracy of this information.
Regards,
Steve Fan
TechNet Community Support

Office 2013 document with Czech spell check lags by save and close on Windows Server 2012R2 RDS session host

On our Win Srv 2012R2 RDS session host server (terminal server) I have bad problem. Office 2013 documents with Czech spell checking lags (1-2 min) when I close and save document. When I change spell checking on English everything works OK. On Windows 8.1
works OK both spell checking.
I tried to investigate with process explorer, and when winword.exe lags, active thread is wwlib.dll!DllGetClassObject with Stack:
KERNELBASE.dll!ReadFile+0x3
MSGR2CZ.DLL!GramGetError+0x3ffeb
MSGR2CZ.DLL!GramGetError+0x4045f
MSGR2CZ.DLL!GramGetError+0x47c7f
MSGR2CZ.DLL!GramGetError+0x10e17
MSGR2CZ.DLL!GramGetError+0x125c2
MSGR2CZ.DLL!GramOpenMdt+0x189
wwlib.dll!wdCommandDispatch+0x251ce8
wwlib.dll!DllGetLCID+0x31ef72
wwlib.dll!DllGetClassObject+0x10887a
wwlib.dll!DllGetClassObject+0x108535
wwlib.dll!DllGetClassObject+0x107bc6
wwlib.dll!DllGetClassObject+0x1030c1
wwlib.dll!DllGetClassObject+0x1077df
ntdll.dll!RtlInitializeExceptionChain+0x84
ntdll.dll!RtlInitializeExceptionChain+0x5a
MSGR2CZ.DLL is Czech language checker.
Any idea?

Hi,
It seems to be an Office related issue, I suggest asking the question in Office forums for help.
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/office/en-US/home?category=officeitpro&filter=alltypes&sort=lastpostdesc
Thanks for your understanding.
Jeremy Wu
TechNet Community Support

Office 2013 document with Czech spell check lags when save and close on Windows Server 2012R2 RDS session host

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I tried to investigate with process explorer, and when winword.exe lags, active thread is wwlib.dll!DllGetClassObject with Stack:
KERNELBASE.dll!ReadFile+0x3
MSGR2CZ.DLL!GramGetError+0x3ffeb
MSGR2CZ.DLL!GramGetError+0x4045f
MSGR2CZ.DLL!GramGetError+0x47c7f
MSGR2CZ.DLL!GramGetError+0x10e17
MSGR2CZ.DLL!GramGetError+0x125c2
MSGR2CZ.DLL!GramOpenMdt+0x189
wwlib.dll!wdCommandDispatch+0x251ce8
wwlib.dll!DllGetLCID+0x31ef72
wwlib.dll!DllGetClassObject+0x10887a
wwlib.dll!DllGetClassObject+0x108535
wwlib.dll!DllGetClassObject+0x107bc6
wwlib.dll!DllGetClassObject+0x1030c1
wwlib.dll!DllGetClassObject+0x1077df
ntdll.dll!RtlInitializeExceptionChain+0x84
ntdll.dll!RtlInitializeExceptionChain+0x5a
MSGR2CZ.DLL is Czech language checker.
Any idea?

Hi,
As the log, MSGR2CZ.DLL and wwlib.dll were both of the Microsoft libraries,not the third-party libraries. Thus, we need to analysis what happened with the dump file. But, it is beyond what we can do in the forum. I recommend you open a ticket with Microsoft
engineer.
Thanks,
George Zhao
Forum Support
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How do you spell check a field?

How are people spell checking their fields?
In searching around, I have only found (a) suggestions to yank the text into MS Word, do a spell check, then yank the resulting text into the field; (b) software from DC AL CODA that we aren't clear how they actually work (http://www.dcalcoda.com).
Specifically, my manager wants a tool that'll interface with Oracle like this: give a table name and a field name and be asked about each spelling error, much like an email spell check. The tool would change things as you ask, directly in the database. You wouldn't have to cut and paste into it and back to the db fields.
We aren't using forms. We use SQL*Plus, Quest Software's TOAD, and our own Java servlets (using JDBC to enter SQL statements).
I would love to hear how people do their spell checking.
Hopefully this is an appropriate forum for this question. There doesn't seem to be a general or SQL forum. Our database tables include a fair amount of text that shows up on Web pages. These are the fields we want to spell check.

I thought I'd reply to my own question since I found a workable solution, at least for our office which has MS Windows.
MS Access can connect directly to an Oracle data source. Access has a spell checking feature where you can select a field and spell check it. Below are tips and instructions for doing this.
TIPS:
It's surely a good idea to back up tables and be the only person or process changing those tables during the spell check.
One thing to watch for is whether the entire table comes in. At the bottom of the screen is a >* button which seems to get all fields. For large tables, you have to hit this button before you get the entire table.
Another glitch is that all of the given database user's tables show up in one list box -- makes for some painful scrolling, but all of the tables are listed.
A much smaller glitch is that if you widened any of the fields in the view of the table, when you close the window, it asks if you want to save the formatting. It has nothing to do with saving the data (that is automatic). It's safe to say no.
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How to set up an ODBC Data Source in Windows:
1. MS Start -> Settings -> Control Panel -> ODBC Data Sources (32 bit)
2. Drivers tab, scroll down and select Oracle ODBC Driver
3. OK
4. User DSN tab, Add...
5. Select Oracle ODBC Driver and Finish
6. Make up a data source name (example: src)
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8. For Service name, put what your service name is (for an SQL*Plus connection, 'usr/passwd@svc', this is 'svc')
9. For UserID, put your user id (for an SQL*Plus connection, 'usr/passwd@svc', this is 'usr')
10. Ignore the rest of the fields, click OK
11. Another OK.
How to use Access to Spell Check an ODBC Data Source Field:
0. Install Access from (MS Office 2000).
1. Start Access (by the way, you might find it way down the list in Start -> Programs).
2. Open file, in the file type box, scroll to the end: ODBC Databases. You'll get a dialog.
3. Machine Data Source tab, select the name you gave it (src in step 6 above)
4. You'll be prompted for the password (for an SQL*Plus connection, 'usr/passwd@svc', this is 'passwd')
5. Select from the huge list of every table the table you want. Ok.
5.a. If the table has no key, you'll be prompted for the unique key from a list of all fields.
6. Double click the item that has just been added to the dialog that remains on the screen. It'll have a globe next to text like USR_TABLENAME. This brings up a randomly sized first chunk of the table.
7. To make sure you get the entire table, on the paging buttons on the bottom (|< < > >| >*), click >*. It may take a few moments to get a huge table.
8. Click the heading of the field (column) you want to spell check). This selects the entire column.
9. Hit spell check (ABC checkmark tool or Tools -> Spelling)
10. Check away. The changes are made immediately to the database.
11. Close the table display window.
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This is the company that makes SpellCatcher: http://www.rainmakerinc.com/
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Can't install extra languages to spell check

Hi,
In our office we have a English Windows 7. English spell check is working in IE10.
Now I want ie10 to check my spelling in Dutch.
I tried tools, manage add-ons, spell correction and there "Get more Spelling Dictionaries Online...".
That resulted in "additional dictionaries are not currently available. Please try again later.
What am I missing to get Dutch spell check working?
Kind regards,
Jeroen

AdamHavas wrote:
This is for a language that isn't already in the Language selector of Pages.
Then changing your OS language would be of no use in any case. Would you be willing to tell us the name of the language in question?

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I'm back. Still no luck getting spell check to work. With all the things I've tried, I'm sure it is now isolated to a operating system based problem. The spell check on InDesign works, but mac mail, text edit, and Open Office.org which all access the OS based spelling function don't work. Not only will they not do dynamic spelling, you can't highlight and tell any of these programs to check the spelling. That doesn't work either.
I am running 10.6.8 on an iMAC 27" that is three years old. I have kept up with my updates as they have come available, and my 3 year warranty just ran out in Nov. this year. I would like to figure out how to fix this without having to wipe the hard drive or anything else that is so radical it might take me days to restore all my functionality.
Any suggestions? Run the utilities and repaired permissions, restarted holding down the shift, etc. and nothing has helped.
thanks,
Kathy

Kathy, had same problem -- here is what I found just now by running tests:
Ok, what is going on is that the preferences for spelling and grammar in word and mail seem not to be working…..
in mail preferences there is no oportunity to set preference re spelling and grammar. I can't find it in apple preferences either
You have to do it manually --- so if mispelled words in EMAIL YOU GO TO EDIT, SPELLING AND GRAMMAR:
if you check grammar with spelling -- all you get is red underline.
if you CHECK check before sending nothing happens
If you check ----check spelling and grammar (which seems to be the default) nothing happens
BUT IF YOU CHECK show spelling and grammar, you get the red underline and correction box
IN WORD, there is spelling preferences --- i chose : check spelling as type, suggest corrections, check grammar with spelling.
IF I go back to check preferences, they are changed for example if i had chosen check spelling while typing, when i go back it is unchosen
So with a document----- (before going back to preferences) ,only mispelled words are underlined red. BUT if then you go to tools, spelling and grammar --- you get the box right away
i did this research before checking directions on web see http://support.apple.com/kb/PH6911
Which for me would take copying the article, double space, under key words AND THEN MAYBE i could understand it --
i have no idea if it correlates to actual testing above.

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Hello Everyone!
I hope I'm on the right forum this time.
I'm a physician. I bought Stedmans Legal/Pharacuetical/Medical Spell Checker in 2004/05. I loved it. When I upgraded to Leopard, something happened. It was gone. It wasn't in any of my backups. It seemed as though all of my applications were looking for it--incuding iTunes. iTunes insists on having it or it won't function and will crash.
I called Stedmans, and they said that it was an open application, or an open helping feature, even though it was buried deeply in the Microsoft Office 2004 app. folder. It was universal, and many applications could use it, so it didn't surprise him that a lot of apps were looking for it if they couldn't find it.
So, I plunked down another $200 for the newest edition of Stedmans, and guess what? The machine is still looking for Spell Check. When it looks for it and can't find it, the Finder comes to a crawl. The application, such as Mail 3.1, comes to a dead stop. Okay, the new Spell Check is in the MS folder where it ought to be, but the Mac Book Pro 17" dual processor isn't happy. I can't seem to make it happy and show it where Spell Check is.
I used to have an awful application called Spell Catcher from RainMaker that didn't do squat for medical terms. It went bye-bye a long time ago. The Mac is very particular about wanting Spell Check, and that's the exact name of the Stedmans app. The last time I spoke to Stemans on the phone, they said that they are aware of some sort of issue, and they're looking into it.
That, of course, was three weeks ago, and when I call now, nobody knows what I'm talking about.
Thanks for reading. Thanks even more for taking the time to respond.
-John

It was looking for "Spell Check" and the applications were crashing because they couldn't find it before I installed the newest edition.
Nevertheless, it is time to go back to Stedmans and see if they've come up with anything.
Thanks for the comeback.
-John

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