Foreign Language Spelling/Grammar Bug?

[Dr Sue]

I cannot check the box "grammar check" in Word Preferences/Spelling
and Grammar, it stays grey after standard installation plus Value Pack
Proofing Tools of my official copy of Office vX for Mac.
Consequentely, I cannot check grammar in the document. No green wavy
underlines appear, and I get no results on grammar when I use
Tools/Spelling and Grammar: just the spelling is checked, in the
standard English dictionary.

Installing the dictionary "English grammar" from the value pack, in
Applications/MS Office/Shared Apps does not help.

Equally, I cannot check documents for Dutch spelling and grammar. I
have the Dutch spelling, grammar and hyphenation dictionaries
installed, but receive a message after I try checking. "The custom
dictionary McNolte/Applications/MS Office/Shared
applications/...(Dutch spelling for example) is not available." This
message comes for all dictionaries I have installed and activated
(i.e. checked the box in Preferences).

Even more confusing: for French, it does work!

I have uninstalled and re-installed everything, without result. Am I
missing something, is it a known bug, or is my copy of Office just
rotten? Hope someone can help!! X Sue

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

Hi Sue,

I cannot check the box "grammar check" in Word Preferences/Spelling
and Grammar, it stays grey after standard installation plus Value Pack
Proofing Tools of my official copy of Office vX for Mac.

I see... Did you install the proofing tool on a recent version of Office
??? If you did, then they probably did not get updated and this might be
the source of your problems.

[...]

I have uninstalled and re-installed everything, without result. Am I
missing something, is it a known bug, or is my copy of Office just
rotten? Hope someone can help!! X Sue

What you should do is:
back up your customizations like templates and startup files
use the Office Uninstaller from the Office CD
install Office through the installer
install the proofing tools
update Office to version 10.1.2 then to 10.1.4
repair permissions through DiskUtility (MacOS 10.2.6) or the Apple
Repair Permission App (MacOS 10.1.5)

reboot, and try over again )

It *should* work.


Corentin