Comments on: MS Word approving nonsense words in spell check?

Question: MS Word approving nonsense words in spell check?

You Should See the Other Guy — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 10:43:34 -0800

Reasons Word tells me a document passed spell check when it has misspelled words in it?

For some reason, when I run spell check on my resume, Word tells me spell check is complete without actually finding the misspelled words. If I run it on any other document, it finds the same misspelled words for me. Any idea why this is? Note that it's not that I've added the words to my dictionary as I can type nonsese like asdlkfjlasdjf and it passes.

I'm on OSX Office X.

By: BackwardsCity

BackwardsCity — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 11:00:51 -0800

Check your language settings. That document may have somehow gotten set to a language you don't have a dictionary for.

By: caddis

caddis — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 11:09:44 -0800

You probably told Word to ignore a that misspelling. Go into the spell checking menu and hit the "recheck" button.

By: caddis

caddis — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 11:13:28 -0800

Just in case my last comment was confusing, I mean that at one time while spell checking your resume you may have hit "ignore all" when that misspelling was highlighted. For that document only Word will continue to ignore that misspelling, that is until you tell it to recheck.

By: koahiatamadl

koahiatamadl — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 12:52:07 -0800

You/another user may have also inadvertently added misspelled words to Word's dictionary.

By: BackwardsCity

BackwardsCity — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 13:39:07 -0800

Note that the OP says he's typing nonsense on the fly and it's passing. It's not a case of misspelled words being added to the dictionary or ignored.

It must be the language thing. Open the document, go to Tools --> Set Language and make sure it's set for your native language. If you don't have the dictionary for a language installed, rather than come up with every word misspelled, it just doesn't do a spellcheck at all.

By: BackwardsCity

BackwardsCity — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 13:44:10 -0800

Playing around with Word just now, I realize you need to select all before you reset the language, or the text you've already typed won't change. Hope this solves your problem.

By: Lanark

Lanark — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 14:37:47 -0800

Press Command-A to select all the text, then Tools,language and untick "do not check spelling"

By: gfrobe

gfrobe — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 15:13:08 -0800

I have this same problem. Word is constantly missing misspelled word in my docs and I can't figure it out either. My language is set correctly and I've gone into the custom dictionary to see if the misspelled word is there and it isn't so no reason why Word shouldn't catch it. Wish I knew the answer.

By: Busy Old Fool

Busy Old Fool — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 23:51:52 -0800

Lanark is probably right. Note that this can be complicated if the text is within tables - afair, each table has to be selected and marked for checking/not checking seperately.

By: Mr. Gunn

Mr. Gunn — Sat, 09 Dec 2006 07:28:46 -0800

You can also set exceptions for capital words, words with numbers, etc. The big problem is words which are spelled correctly, but used improperly, like there and their.