Word and Outlook 2007 not spell checking
September 4th, 2008 by Anthony Curreri
So a user was complaining that her Microsoft Word 2007 install wasn’t error checking. Of course it worked into 2003, but after the upgrade Word’s spell checker would not highlight misspelled words. It does underline repeated words, which I found strange. Also strange was that when I was logged in as another user (in this case, the administrator), Spell Check worked fine.
Outlook 2007 no longer uses Word 2007 directly for edits, but they do share the same proofing tools. Which for some reason this system didn’t update a registry key properly. Here’s the steps to fix!
- Close Word and Outlook
- Click Start, then run, then type in ‘regedit’
- Browse to this key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Proofing Tools\1.0
- Delete the 1.0 key and sub keys!
- Start Word. Spell check should now be highlighting misspelled words.
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