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My spell checkers stopped functioning
Hi all!
Hope this is the correct Forum discussion area as all my spell checkers either stopped working....or my memory of them/what they once did has stopped!
This all started with my using Outlook (the new name for Hotmail) to type a letter.....
No spell checker... I seem to remember I had one there else I really really do spell wrong (or take long times like this document two days to slowly go over each word with ... yes ... I broke the emergency door on the wall and took out the paperback dictionary!)
Anyway...
I know what to do to solve this I thought! I type first in Word Pad or Note Pad and then copy and past over to my Email when its all spell checked...but....
I tried Word Pad, No suggestions for misspelled words no help no nothing. Same for NotePad.
Did they ever have spell checking?
My Microsoft Word 2007 is "broken" and so of course I have to find that Forum goup and sign in and get some help there.... and its broken for "lack of money" mostly..... so not expecting help to come from there so right now I can't open a new document to type and use Word's Spell checkers (and therefore I don't yet know if this error has extended to those spell checkers either)
I've got several browsers on my SONY VAIO laptop with Windows 7 Professional version. Tried IE 9 , Safari, Chrome and all three same resut.
More details.... When I try one of the Outlook accounts it does not say "Spell Check " on menu bar but another one (just converted to Outlook from Hotmail this past week!) DOES say "Spell Check" on its menu bar...
I don't know why my other Outlook account does not say it
I can't find that choice or option in preferences to put it back in the menu bar...
And by the by.... I don't really want it. When I clicked on tab on Outlook account that had "Spell Check" tab, assuming it would settle everything... It came up the following message:
>>>Message from Webpage:
>>>Exception raised! Automation server can't create object.
This message occurs no matter which item I choose on the menu/submenu (incuding the new ieSpell program--see below)
In the Outlook without the Spell Check tab I get words underlined in red (unlike what I found under your Forum answers).
Sub menu when I clicked on it says " cut/copy/paste/spelling and grammar/font paragraph direction"
Under "Spelling and grammar" I click a sub menu and get "Show Spelling and Grammar/Check Document now/ (check mark) Check spelling while typing/ CHeck Grammar with Spelling"
This gets complicated... If I choose to "Check document now" it DOES! Great..
but only for the one misspelled word I'm pointing too (I typically misspell 10 words out of a 15 word sentence, even "eht" and "dan" I get wrong and need fixing).
I have to then click on the choice of misspelled word (just like old times!)
But unlike the old times methods of spell checking: then the sub menu vanishes and I'm at the next misspelled word and no menu, no help. Now if I right click I get the TOP sub menu and have to go through the whole process again just to correct the "next" word... very very slow and tedious (at least its the computer doing it and not myself with a dictionary!)
What is going on here?
I tried to get a check mark to appear next to that choice but it refuses to do so. Check marks are working in other areas of the Outlook page including "(checkmark) Check Spelling while typing" choice I can turn that one on and off as much as I like, but I still don't get Spelling words while I'm typing like I did for years and years.
I did check your prior Forum quesitons and found a CNET program ieSpell and downloaded it and tried it but as you can see from the above either I get "Message from Webpage...etc" or I do nothing and its not working like promised.... I do read in my Norton that it crashes on average once a week in normal use, but I'm not even using it yet. Tried starting and restarting browser... did not restart computer as too many projects left open/webpages to do that right now so I'm sending this message out and will try that later today....maybe that is what is needed.
But I doubt it as before the program was installed I have turned on and off computer etc for many times since the problem started, just never got enough time to spell check and write this long a message since I lost spell check features.
In case it matters, I noticed there is no spell checking feature on this Forum page new thread typing box...or is there? I don't know as none of my many misspelled words have red lines under them.
Hope I gave enough information... if not please ask!
Thanks all!