Word for Mac 2011 Excel for Mac 2011 PowerPoint for Mac 2011 Cause: The custom dictionary isn't selected Solution: Use Word to select the custom dictionary that you want to use. Open a Word document. On the Word menu, click Preferences.
Under Authoring and Proofing Tools, click Spelling and Grammar. Under Spelling, click Dictionaries. Select the check box next to the custom dictionary that you want to use, click OK, and then click OK again. Cause: The custom dictionary is corrupted Solution: Use Word to create a new custom dictionary and add words from the corrupt dictionary to it A custom dictionary has a special file format, and it can get corrupted if it's saved in a different format.
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By default the Microsoft Word spell checker installs when you install the software on your computer. If the spell check is grayed out when you click on 'Options' under 'Tools' on the text menu at the top of the screen, you will need to install the spell checker manually from the Word installation disk.
If the File Conversion dialog box opens when you try to edit the custom dictionary, or if strange characters appear in the custom dictionary file when you open it, then the file is corrupted. To recover, you can create a new custom dictionary, and then run the spelling checker on the corrupt custom dictionary to add your custom words to the new custom dictionary. Finally, remove the corrupt custom dictionary. Do the following steps in order: Step 1: Create a new custom dictionary. Open a Word document.
On the Word menu, click Preferences. Under Authoring and Proofing Tools, click Spelling and Grammar. Under Spelling, click Dictionaries. Click New, and then in the Save As box, type a name for the custom dictionary.
Important: If the Convert File or File Conversion dialog boxes open, don't make any changes—just click OK. (The correct text encoding setting is Other encoding: Unicode 5.1 (Little-Endian).). In the Save As box, type a name for the custom dictionary, and then click Save.
In the Custom Dictionaries dialog box, make sure that check box next to the new custom dictionary is selected, clear check boxes for any other custom dictionaries, and then click OK. Click OK again to close the Spelling and Grammar dialog box. Step 2: Open the corrupt dictionary. Open a Word document. On the Word menu, click Preferences. Under Authoring and Proofing Tools, click Spelling and Grammar. Under Spelling, click Dictionaries.
Leave the new custom dictionary selected, but highlight the corrupt dictionary by dragging the pointer across it, and then click Edit. Note: If the Convert File or File Conversion dialog boxes open, click OK to close them. You can safely ignore strange characters or blank lines in the file. Step 3: Add words from the corrupt dictionary to the new custom dictionary. On the Tools menu, click Spelling and Grammar. For each word that you want to add to the custom dictionary, click Add.
Close the spelling checker, and then close the corrupt dictionary. Step 4: Remove the corrupt dictionary. Open a Word document.
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On the Word menu, click Preferences. Under Authoring and Proofing Tools, click Spelling and Grammar. Under Spelling, click Dictionaries. Leave the new custom dictionary selected, but highlight the corrupt dictionary by dragging the pointer across it, click Remove, and then click OK. If you want red, wavy lines that indicate spelling errors to show in your document, make sure that the Check spelling as you type check box is selected, and then click OK.
There seems to be a spell checker issue in Word where the following error is reported. On my Mac, this happens most often when I open a file that did not originate from MS Word 2011. If I create a document in MS Word 2011, and leave spell and grammar checks enabled for “as you type” (see below on how to disable this), then I do not get an error. If you do not disable the options below, then as at the date of this page this error will recur and you will need to shut down the application.
Disable the ‘as you type’ options First, in Word select Word Preferences and the following window will appear. Select ‘Spelling and Grammer’. Disable the 'as you type' options Once this is done you should be able to open the document that originated in OpenOffice or any other compatible programme without the pop up warning appearing. Please note, however, that this pop-up will re-occur if you do a spelling and/or grammar check. “Repair” a Document If you want to be able to re-enable the ‘as you type’ options above, you may want to try the steps below, as these have worked for me. However this does not assist with compatibility of Word documents between OpenOffice.org and MS Office.
First, save the document as a docx file. Then select all the text in the document (Command-A). Next select Tools Language, and select one language for the entire document. In your post you said: Please note, however, if you open any other documents that didn’t originate in Word 2011, then you may have to perform all the above steps again. I found a work around, because thousands of my documents originated in an earlier version of Word, and following the above procedure is not feasible every time I open a document created in an earlier version of Word. I created a macros and named it AutoOpen the code i used is below.
This automatically sets the autocheck to english when a document is opened. Sub AutoOpen ‘ ‘ AutoOpen Macro ‘ ‘ Dim doc As Word.Document Set doc = ActiveDocument Application.ResetIgnoreAll ActiveDocument.SpellingChecked = False ActiveDocument.GrammarChecked = False doc.Range.LanguageID = wdEnglishUS doc.Range.NoProofing = False End Sub. Who is behind Guide2Office? My name is Stephanie Krishnan and I'm passionate about the way that open source software and its community can help small businesses and individuals with their productivity and lives. One of the biggest arguments I get from business owners, however, is lack of support options.
I decided to put together my own support blog to help people be productive at various levels with various Office software, including OpenOffice.org, LibreOffice, NeoOffice, MS Office and Apple products!