MSword spell checker on a ThinkPad

[chell]

Hello;

My friend is having a problem with MSWord 95 when she tries to use spell check. The checker seems to work fine thru most of the document (1 page, about 10 to 20 typos) but hangs (or seems to) towards the end of the PROCESS. The word process was deliberate - if she starts at the beginning of the doc the hang occurs towards the end of the doc; however if she starts towards the middle, the hang can occur just before where she started.

As usual, any insight would be appreciated.

Chell

 

[bkpchs237]

The process hanging seems to indicate that you may need to clean up the hard drive by deleting temp files, and emptying the recycling bin. If on a Windows 95 or Windows 98 machine running scandisk and defrag may help as well.

To check if the spell checker itself is working properly follow the steps below.

Within document highlight the entire document via Edit, Select All. Then go to Tools, Language, Mark Selected Text As and choose English US (I am assuming you are using American English). From here click on the Default button to ensure that this is also the default language for the program while you use it on this machine. You may get a warning message here about changing the default language and it will affect the Normal Template, click Yes, then click on OK to return to the document.

Now, go to the Tools, Options, Spelling Tab. Click on the Custom Dictionaries button. Select each custom dictionary by clicking on it once and check the language of each dictionary. If it is set to anything other than English US, change it to English US. When finished click on OK, then click on the Recheck Document button.

Hope this helps.