Why Does My Spelling Errors File Not Work?

Maybe it's not installed...?

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970826

Then they wouldn't have found errors in the other file!

I copied it into my Open Office and it caught them.

No clue here.

Libre Office found them as well.

In my version of Word (Office Basic Edition 2003) I can set the Spelling and Grammar Options under the Tools drop-down menu. It allows me to turn spell checker On or Off. Perhaps your versions of your programs have the equivalent options turned off.

Btw, my copy of Word found all those errors right away.

Does "spelling errors file" equal custom dictionary?

Good question!

For OP

I would also check the following:

Word: which language setting is there. If the language is set to something different than the installed spell check if will not be able to check the language and hence it will say nothing. Libre and open office come with all language as spell check I believe and would probably show mistakes. But as said earlier it might be a setting surpressing the spell check.

The document is based on a template. If it is not the Standard but a custom made all sorts of errors can occur.

The most problems arise if the template was created in a different Word version with a different language. Again the language settings are off essence! Some times and in the worst case the false language settings are transfered to your Standard. Click "do you want to save the normal.dot file" once too often and you have crap in.

I would save the normal.dot file as a back up so you can revert back to it.

Have fun!

Cheers IS

I replied, but it didn't take. That sucks! I will try again tomorrow. I'm going to bed now.

CR4's checker came out thus;

I wrote a document a while back and noticed I had made some spelling errors. The program did not find them. Later I wrote a file with intentional spelling errors. I used 3 different office programs, and none of them found an error even when I invoke the spell checker. They were Open Office, Libre Office and Microsoft Word. In a new document, they all found errors. Why do they not find errors in the error file? Here is what it now contains:

Thise fil ise ful ofv speeling errrors. Maybee itt wil findd somee ovf theem. Nopee!!!

Whatin theworld? Whyc annone ofthe ofice progrms find anyt hing?

Dog,a dogg ddog doog baddog realbaddog ddddddddddoooooooooooggggggggg

Whenis aword nota word> ? doesthe filehave tobe longerth anthis?

A aa aaa aaaa aaaaa b bb bbb bbbb bbbbb c cc ccc cccc ccccc d dd ddd dddd ddddd

An on in anonimus anonimous anoninimus anonimouse eccettera ecetera etcetera

Eror

Error

Erorr

Eeror

Th quic broun foxx jumpd ovir thhe lazi canyne

Right Wrong

Aardvark ardvark

Abnormal adnormal

Acclaim aclaim

Across acros accros accross

Aerodynamics airodienamics

Always allways

Anaheim anahime

Arrowhead arowhed

2nd try. I copied the text out of the file and pasted to another .txt file. All 3 programs worked, even if it was saved as a win 97/2000/xp/2003 .doc file. The original was 11 kb, and the pasted one is 20 kb. None were perfect:

Word 2000 had these misses:

b bb c cc d

Open office and Libre Office had these misses:

hing? Dog,a Word> b c cc d dd Th

(Same thing Kris showed)

So it was something in the original file preventing the spelling checker from working.

My 2010 Word picked up all the errors except for nopee.

Perhaps it is a name.

Or you need to see a good urologist.

StandardsGuy-

With some, and most word processors, once they do one spell check they are programmed not to recognize those words on any additional spell checking runs. I have been told, but don't recognize it as a legitimate answer, that this is so that you don't waste time doing what has already been done. It only works on that portion that is new in the document.

My experiment was to produce a document with numerous errors. Ran the spell checker and told spell checker not to change some of the errors. Opened file and added some more verbiage with more errors. 1st half errors were no longer recognized and new part errors recognized by the spell checker.

I have no ideal why they are programmed that way. I would prefer to have errors checked each time the spell checker is run since my keyboarding stinks and even with the spell checker I still make a lot of mistakes.

Blame it on some programmer out in Redwood City, who only knows how to use a computer to write software and doesn't know much about errors in documents.

Good Luck, Old Salt

"I have no ideal"

I believe 'ideal' should be 'idea'.

BTW: neither drag and drop, or, copy and paste worked for me!

bluebelly-

I agree with you, "ideal" should have been "idea".

There are a few reasons for this error:

1) The spell checker of this system isn't worth a crap.

2) As stated very prominently in the third paragraph: since my keyboarding stinks and even with the spell checker I still make a lot of mistakes. My keyboarding skills first and only training was prior to the IBM typewriter with the "ball". It was also before "Correct-o-Type" or White-Out"

3) One spelling error in one posting is pretty good for this forum. To put together an answer with one spelling error and still have it understandable is pretty good. You understood it well enough to reply to it.

4) Me too-- "neither drag and drop, or, copy and paste worked for me!"

5) The stupid time limit thing that makes providing a clear answer, more than one paragraph long, causes a rush to get it done. The method I use is: compose in CR4 then go to "review entry" then copy to word (I also try to remember to spell check there, a far better program) then highlight and drag back to a empty "reply box" then reverse the white on black to black on white then back to the review entry and then finally "Submit". This also can produce spelling errors. It happened on the first try with this answer!

6) Aligned with my poor keyboarding is that my grammar and composition ain't worth a crap either! I was the horror and ultimate challenge to my HS English teachers. So bad that my younger brother suffered the wrath of one teacher when on the first day of school she said "Oh my God No! Not another (family name)! Why did I deserve this?" Half way through the school year she suffered a nervous break-down, no kidding!

7) Whatsa da madda wit me writin doood? Yoos tink yoos is dat goooood?

Good Luck, Old Salt

I added to it several times in the last few days, and tried it with all 3 programs. No errors were found anytime. After copying and pasting to another file, all is OK.

StandardsGuy-

Yes, if anything is changed or new to what you are working with, copy, cut and paste, added, etc., the spell checker will process that part. If a portion has been entered and not changes or worked with, then it will not be processed. Like wise if you then do additional work on the document only the new and changed section will be processed.

As I said, I don't know why they make it that way.

Good Luck, Old Salt

In Word, under options, custom dictionary, edit word list .. then remove the words that "someone" have added to the customer dictionary list as "okay" the way they are spelled even if miss-spelled from good dictionary.

I would look here first.

In the options of M$ word under proofing, click the check document or recheck depending on version. This will recheck for spelling if someone previously clicked ignore when checked the first time.