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Office 2007 proofing tools - English UK
Hi,
I have a problem with my recently installed Office 2007 Pro Plus setup running under XP SP2. My default language preference for speeling and grammar is English (UK) but when I try to spell check new or old (word XP) documents, I get an error to say that Word "cannot find proofing tools for English (UK)...". If I click K, Word tells me it has completed the spelling and grammar checking but detects no errors etc. And if I choose to use the thesaurus I get the error the Office "cannot op[en the Thesaurus... Installer error 1605...". Everything work OK if I select English (US) as my language but that does not help me much... I have tried repairing the installation and have tried unininstalling the proofing tools and reinstalling them (using the MSOCache files, not the installation source) but this has not helped... Are the English (UK) proofing tools not available from the installation source? Where can I obtain the English (UK) Files and how do I install them? Any help, as always, greatly appreciated. Best wishes, Boris. |
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Office 2007 proofing tools - English UK
Taken from the solution over at Lockergnome: '2007 Spell Check Not working' (http://tinyurl.com/3ykqca) HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Proofing Tools\1.0\Override\en-US I had 2 entries (DLL and LEX) pointing to non-existing files. Rename these to oldDLL and oldLEX. After this change all Spell Checking worked normal again. This worked for me and got my English U.K. default spelling working again immediately :-) -- qwerty2k7 |
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Office 2007 proofing tools - English UK
Many thanks - very useful. In the end, I gave up trying to get the original
installation working and went back to a system configuration before I had installed even the beta vrsion of Excel 2007, then uninstalled all Office programs, clkeaned out the registry, and did a full install of Office 2007 Professional. That worked but your solution wouldhave been so much easier! Thanks again and bestwishes, Boris. "qwerty2k7" wrote: Taken from the solution over at Lockergnome: '2007 Spell Check Not working' (http://tinyurl.com/3ykqca) HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Proofing Tools\1.0\Override\en-US I had 2 entries (DLL and LEX) pointing to non-existing files. Rename these to oldDLL and oldLEX. After this change all Spell Checking worked normal again. This worked for me and got my English U.K. default spelling working again immediately :-) -- qwerty2k7 |
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Office 2007 proofing tools - English UK
I have this same problem exactly, but don't have those keys in my registry... any other ideas? -- x3ja ------------------------------------------------------------------------ x3ja's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/member.php?userid=26986 View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/showthread.php?t=708047 http://forums.techarena.in |
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Office 2007 proofing tools - English UK
I would say, if you do resort to reinstalling (as I did) simply removing
Office 2007 and reinstalling will not be enough. You will have to manually go through the registry (carefully) and remove entries specific to Office before reinstalling - at least on my system a simple uninstall and reinstall made no difference. Once I recompleted a clean reinstall, everything was OK with the proofing tools but I have had some other problems (for example, try as I might, I had no success using the Save As PDF or XPS add-in option in any office programs and have now resorted simply to remove it and rely on the Adopbe Acrobat 8 product but I appreciate that is not a cheap option!). So, no, I do not know which keys cause the problem but I am relatively sure it is down to registry settings somewhere and I guess reinstalling, although a duanting task, is the fastest way to solve the problem... Good luck, Boris. "x3ja" wrote: I have this same problem exactly, but don't have those keys in my registry... any other ideas? -- x3ja ------------------------------------------------------------------------ x3ja's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/member.php?userid=26986 View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/showthread.php?t=708047 http://forums.techarena.in |
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Office 2007 proofing tools - English UK
Boris;2948933 Wrote: I would say, if you do resort to reinstalling (as I did) simply removing Office 2007 and reinstalling will not be enough. You are completely right! I uninstalled completely & reinstalled but that didn't solve it. I uninstalled, removed the Office directory & anything I could find to do with office from the registry & reinstalled, but that still didn't solve it. You know what? I think I'll stick with English (U.S.) since I only have the laptop for another month! Or maybe I'll start writing everything in French since that works too... it is ONLY the English (U.K.) that doesn't!!! How odd eh? Maybe if I changed my system locale to English (U.S.) when I install, then that would be the one that didn't work? Who knows! -- x3ja ------------------------------------------------------------------------ x3ja's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/member.php?userid=26986 View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/showthread.php?t=708047 http://forums.techarena.in |
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Office 2007 proofing tools - English UK
THIS FIXES IT. Go to the Add/Remove Programs and select Microsoft Office 2007 and click the Change button. Select the Add/Remove Features radio button and hit Continue. Expand the plus-sign next to Office Shared Features, click on the drop-down arrow next to Proofing Tools, and Select "Run All From My Computer". (Or you can select the Languages you prefer to have Proofing Tools support, if you expand Proofing Tools.) Click Continue, etc. and you should be all set. -- gerokika ------------------------------------------------------------------------ gerokika's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/members/gerokika.htm View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/ms-office-support/708047.htm http://forums.techarena.in |
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