This is great- I had tried everything. Just Rename the “HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Proofing Tools\1.0″ to zz1.0.

Thanks!

Do anybody know how to enable auto spell checker in EXCEL 2007? Word 2007 is ok but I need those red waves when I type something in Excel. Any help would be appreciated!!!
Patryk

alas, i can spell again…. lol
thanks freelancer

Freelancer, thanks for your solution! by renaming that key (for sure corrupted) a new one (named 1.0 again) is created, solving the issue. Thanks again!

You are a genius. I really cannot thank you enough. Please email me and let me know how on EARTH you figured this out!

Thank you!!!!!

Lance, thank you soooo much this did it:
(EDIT: Popular Solution By Lance)

I have struggled with this problem and think I found the answer. It seems that Office 2007 disables the english dictionary becasue it causes problems with Outlook Express. To turn the dictionary back on goto:
Microsoft Office Button>
Word Options>
Ad Ins>
Manage (select disabled items)>
Click on the english dictionary and re-enable it>
Close Word and restart.

Now test the issue and see if you’re still facing the same issue. If this step doesn’t work, please do let me know and I will give you the more complicated method of resolving the issue

Just uninstall 2007 and reinstall 2003

Hey,

Thanks a lot for giving out the info on Word 07 spell check. I’ve been going insane trying to repair the fg%$^&n’ thing!!! THIS WORKED & WAS EASY. (More than I can say for tech. support at microsh&^t…

I’m going to pass this along to everyone I know!!!

Up the Irons!!!!
David

Thank you so much! This is the only post I have found that actually fixed my problem.

The Solution for me was to ensure the proofing tools had be installed in the first place, Add/Remove Programs > Office 2007 Ent > Change > Proofing Tools > Run from this computer > install

FREELANCEr!!!! you rock my socks off! finally it’s fixed! thanks so much!

Thanks Guys, I tried just about everything listed here.. One of them worked so thank you to you all.
Cheers

Open Microsoft Office Word 2007
Click on the Microsoft Office logo top left of the screen.
Click on Word Options
Click on Popular at the left hand side Pane
Click on Language Settings at the bottom
On the left hand side under “Available editing languages“, look for (English) then click Add
At the bottom where “Primary Editing Language” change it to (English ) at the drop down menu
On the right hand side under “Enabled editing languages“, highlight any other language other than (English ) then click Remove in the middle.
Click on OK
Click on OK again

In outlook express go to tool and click options.
Click on spelling and tick on (always check spelling before sending).click on apply.

Restart the computer.

Thanks web. Lance’s solution didn’t apply to me (since nothing was ever disabled with my ms word) but your solution worked.

Thanks, Matt North. Your solution was the one that applied to me.

People, try the different solutions posted here. Not everyone has the same problem. For whatever reason, my tools just wasn’t activated. I think it was due to me trying to install as few features as possible when I installed Enterprise 2007.

Start – Run – Regedit
HKEY_CURRENT_USER(near the top)Software\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Proofing Tools\
change 1.0 to zz1.0.

not my answer just a reformed answer of freelaners and this is the only thing that really worked for me

The register edit method is working. thanks to mr. freelance

I’m with Barry, way back in Feb. Spell check words fine on Office 2007, but not on MSN/Quest email. Only French dictionary offered as a choice. Tried all solutions offered, but no-go. Is it a waiting game for Msn to upgrade or has someone found a solution?

HOW TO FIX SPELL CHECK IN WORD 2007.
I figured it out! I tried just about every fix out there…even the registry thing, and nothing worked more than temporarily.

Here it is:
1) Select all the text in your entire word document.
2) Under the review tab, click “set language.”
3) Uncheck the box that says “Do not check spelling or grammar.” Make sure that the box is not shaded either, because if it is, this means that some of the text is not being spell checked and some is.

That should do it. For some reason, sometimes certain sections of the document mysteriously get that box checked and get skipped over by the spell checker. Good luck!

THANK YOU SOOO MUCH, I have been trying everything even editing my registry. An hour left to finish my paper lol.

this problem drags me a lot messy time. thanks to u! works now

I’m not sure what helped but you all are amazing! I first used the recommendation by removing English and then Adding English (Austrailia). Well then I was reading further down in some of the comments and I seen a comment by “Lance” which stated to go to the Add Ins, then click disable items. Well to my surprise the spell check was indeed disabled, not sure how that happened or maybe it was just something funky going on with Word 2007. Well I clicked enabled and restarted my computer. So I used both methods and it help fix the problem. Thank you all so very much!

i’ve tried all of your suggestions yet it didn’t work for me..
so i tried deleting the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Proofing Tools\1.0 since it will regenerate…
after doing this..
my spelling correction did run!hahaha…

a lot of thanks to all of you for giving me the idea!

Thank-you so much! I tried other registry changes that called for deleting the Word register. Renaming the shared file makes more sense since spell check is a shared function within MS Office!! I spend a whole day trying different things and until I finally came across this “Expand HKey_Current_User -> Software -> Microsoft -> Shared Tools -> Proofing “.

i had same problem now its fixed
cheers

Hey Lance,
I’ve tried heaps of methods but this was the only one that worked for me.

Cheers man!

Rob

Hi, I tried the solution from Lance a few months ago and it worked like a charm. However, the problem seems to have returned and the old fix does not work. At the bottom of my documents – i get crazy things – it seems to resent itself to Finnish and Italian. I go back and change the language and it lasts for a few moments, then returns to Finnish, Italian or a range of other obscure languages. I am not happy about trying the regedit solution – any other ideas?

This also worked for me! Thank you so much! I have been looking on other websites and at other posts and nothing worked. Thanks again!

Thanks for the ms office 2007 word spellcheck fix.

Your suggestion worked! Thank you.

Hello mate,

My drop down menus never stay down and when I type the word/s they vanish.

I have Norton Anti-Virus, Registry Fix and microsoft’s maliciuos remova tool but they sy there are no bugs or viruses.

Can you PLEASE advise???

It’s a Toshishiba Windows XP laptop

May thanks,

Tyrone

Lance,
Nicely done, after all this time, it still works, immediately… with no reboot even.

Thank you sooo much Freelancer. Your suggestion worked perfectly. I had been going crazy without spell check.

Lance you genius!! You saved me. My Outlook 2007 now shows all misspelled words in red again. Thanks for posting.

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!!
That did the trick!!!!!
And by the way….
THANK YOU!!!

I’ve tried it all – the registry manipulation, reinstalling, nothing worked… UNTIL

I enabled the mysteriously disabled add-in (of the 2003 speller).

FIXED!

Thanks!

Lance,

Thank you for sharing your knowledge. I’ve been going crazy trying to find a solution. Great job!

You are a God Lance Thank you for saving my sanity. I was losing my mind trying to figure out what happened to my spellchecker.
~Janelle

Freelancer, THANK YOU!!! Worked PERFECTLY.

Lance
You’re an angel. I worked on the spell check item for days to no avail. Then I found your suggestion to remove the spell check from the disabled list, and it worked.
Thank you so much! Regina

Lance’s solution is amazing!

Just to add to it: from “Manage,” select “disabled” add-ins and then click “Go…” I didn’t click go at first to it took me a while to find the dictionary.

I tried everything but nothing works

only one that worked for me is the regedit solution. Fixed it for all Office including Expression Web.. Great help! Thanks much

How’s this for a problem? The English spellchecker works fine but the spell checker in tables is French, not English. How can I correct that?

thanks!!! i used the popular solution, the registry renaming thing and it worked!

Thank you so much!!! This worked for me, and I will be sharing this with many of my colleagues.

the zz1.0 change worked for me, too. thanks for your persistance!

Thanks for the info. This fixed the problem.

The Second Step worked for Office 2007 Small Business with Contact Manager. Under OS. Vista Home

The registry edit from Freelancer works. When it started after the registry edit, Word recreated a new 1.0 folder, then copied the contents from the original custom.dic file to create a new custom1.dic file. All of my custom spellings were retained. Wonders never cease.

Thanks for the helpful suggestion.

Holy crap! That really worked. When I first saw the solution I was like what the hell does that stuff mean? But it was all cool after. Thanks, man.

Thanks Freelancer!

I have tried all of these–my spell check seems to work for documents but it will not spell check words embedded in a table. It says text marked as do not spell check (or some such) were skipped and I cannot figure out how to get them unskipped

Thank you so much – it worked – I had reported the problem to our IT guys and they were unable to solve

Lance, your solution worked for me – Thanks. I had given up searching for the answer a few months ago. Glad I tried again!

matt north – thanks man – this did it for me, for some reason the “‘Proofing Tools’ to ‘run from my PC.” was not set

Thanks Freelancer, This is it..
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Step 1: START/RUN/REGEDIT

Step 2: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Proofing Tools\1.0 (rename “1.0″ to “zz1.0″ )
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Nick

Feb 2 fix worked like a charm.

My problem with spell check is it won’t read headlines in a news release template. It checks the rest of the document but not the headline/title. BTW, I’ve tried every suggestion above and none worked. Any clues? Thanks in adavance.

Lance,

You are absolutely AWESOME!!!!!!! Thanks

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I am having the same problem with my 2007 Word not correcting the spelling. I have gone through the steps suggested and reloaded the software. I have asked it to dignosis the problem. Nothing is working. Please advise?

Brad

Lance, your fix for Word 2007 not spell checking worked like a charm!

You da man!

Steve

Thanks dude… My office is now working very well. spelling ok!! T o think of all the things I have tried!

Thanks a million

If that doesn’t work then in Add/Remove Programs in the Windows Control panel
-start the Microsoft Office 2007 choice and select ‘Change’.
- Then select ‘Add or Remove Features’
-then open from there
‘Office Shared Features’ and set ‘Proofing Tools’ to ‘run from my PC.

This is sheer genius. Thanks man

I’d like to ask Freelancer and LocalTech if renaming the registry key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Proofing Tools\1.0 to zz1.0 is equivalent to removing the key. Might we have renamed it to anything – oldkey1.0 for example – or is “zz1.0″ the correct name for the key?

I’ve been having this same spell check problem with all my Office 2007 applications. This fix did it for me too. Thanks so much!!

Thanks that worked

Hey Lance thanks a lot i have been racking my brains over this spell check issue…thanks dude

Thanx. though ur proceedure is time consuming but it works. LocalTech u rock.

Lance!
You are my hero!

Lance, You are my hero. Spent the day trying to figure out where spell check went, googled, found this page and it was fixed 10 minutes later.

Thank you so much Lance!!! I had this problem for about a month and found another “fix” on another website which involved the registry. That worked for about a week, but it then reverted back to not working. I do use Outlook, so that was probably the problem. Your solution worked perfectly and made the most sense. Thanks soooo much!! I’m a medical transcriptionist, so I need my spell checker – I was losing my mind without it!

My spellcheck problem with Office 2007 is not what has been described in the other posts. The spellcheck works fine in office 2007, but once I installed office 2007, the spell check would not work on my MSN/Qwest email. Window comes up that there is no American dictionary. So I called msn help and they told me that MSN has to be updated to support the new updated dictionary on Office 2007, and that they are working on it; they indicated they have been working on it for about 5 months, but after exploring the web, I find its been longer. Is there any way around this problem? I downloaded
Tiny spell or speller and it was pretty bad. Any suggestions?

By that Freelancer means go to the Registry Editor

Start – Run – Regedit
Then browse to those following locations…
That was the complicated method, was trying to find the folder but I forgot where it was, sorry guys…

Guys, I have the same problem, please help.
In all office 2007 applications repeated words are detected with wavy red line under the repeated word, but otherwise “the spell check is complete” shows, ignoring misspellings.

How can I resolve it?

I obviously didn’t spellcheck my previous post.

Hello Eugene,

I could recommend a few things that might resolve your issue.

First of all uninstall the software completely… When I say that I don’t mean go to Program and Features then uninstall it there… Try doing the following

Go to Http://www.microsoft.com/downloads and search for Windows Install Cleanup
- Download and install this software
- Click on Start – All Programs and go to Windows Install Cleanup
- Search for all Microsoft Office applications and remove them

Once you’re done, click on Start, and in the start search box type in REGEDIT and click enter to bring up the registry editor…
Once in here go to the following locations and rename the folders

HKey_Local_Machine -> Software -> Microsoft -> Office
- Rename the Office folder to Office.old
HKey_Current_User -> Software -> Microsoft -> Office
- Rename the Office folder to Office.old

*You have to expand the folders to view the subfolders…

Close the registry editor now and go to Computer

Then go to C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office and rename the Microsoft Office folder to Office.old

Once you have done these steps, Microsoft Office would have completely been erased from your computer… Now do not restart the computer, just run the installation again and then test out the spell checker…

If this step doesn’t work, it would be a good idea to try and create a new user account and test it in there as this step has worked previously.

Do let my know if these steps resolve your issue

On Dec 30, 2007 12:35 PM, E. Dolan wrote:

Hello,
I would be grateful for any help in resolving the following problem:
We have a new Dell PC, with Windows Vista and Office Basic 2007.
Spell check function will not show misspelt words in Word 2007. It does work correctly in Excel 2007 and Outlook 2007.
In word 2007 repeated words are detected with wavy red line under the repeated word, but otherwise “the spell check is complete” shows, ignoring misspellings.
The English dictionary for Ireland is selected. Grammar check is turned off. “Do not spell check” is not selected in word “proofing” settings.
I have experimented with various other relevant settings to no avail.
I uninstalled and reinstalled Office 2007 basic, still no solution.
I have run out of ideas – any help/suggestions are appreciated.
Eugene.

Hello,

Replacing English US with English Australia did not fix this issue for me. Of course, I also want to remain with or restore to US as that is my language. I have done so (gone back to US) and would like to know about the ‘more complicated method’ of resolving the issue.

thanks,
Marshall