I have recently had to install Word 97 on a friend's XP Home PC but it will not spellcheck. The Spelling part of the Spelling & Grammar tab in tools | options is grayed out. I checked out the solution in q257643 but there is no Spelling within HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Proofing Tools\. There are 5 values but no Spelling. Grammar works fine. Any suggestions please? TIA Joe
On Mon, 12 May 2008 10:45:01 -0700, Joe91 wrote: >I have recently had to install Word 97 on a friend's XP Home PC but it will >not spellcheck. The Spelling part of the Spelling & Grammar tab in tools | >options is grayed out. I checked out the solution in q257643 but there is no >Spelling within HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Proofing >Tools\. There are 5 values but no Spelling. Grammar works fine. Any >suggestions please? >TIA >Joe It can't hurt to try creating the Spelling key (right-click the Proofing Tools key, click New > Key, and enter 'Spelling' in the name box) and making sure it has the permissions mentioned in the KB article. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit.
