Spell Check - "Text Marked Do Not Check..."

[Bright Spark]

Using Word 2003 - I would appreciate some help -- my spell check has
begun giving me a window message after it's done spell-checking which
says:

Text marked with "Do not check spelling or grammar" was skipped.

I have no idea where this has come from what seems like all of a
sudden. I have never intentionally marked anything with "Do not
check" and so I don't know how to get rid of it.

I have gone to the Tools-Language-Set Language and the Do Not Check
Spelling or Grammar box is NOT checked, so I can't figure out why it
seems to think that something is marked to not check.

In case it's only a piece of text in my documents that has
accidentally been marked with the "Do Not Check," is there a way to
search through a document to find what text that is which has been
marked this way so I can undo it?

Thanks in advance for any assistance pointing me in the right
direction.

Bright Spark

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Ctrl+F. Leave the "Find what" box empty, click More, and then Format |
Language | Do not check spelling or grammar. Find Next.

 

[Bright Spark]

Thanks, Suzanne.

It's very strange - I am finding this command inside footers which
contain only a page number, and even when I then uncheck the "Do Not
Check" box and then run another spell check, it continues to give me
the same message - it seems it simply does not remove it. I wonder if
it is an automatic default in Word that it does not check
spelling/grammar for page numbers? And, more intriguing, why did it
just recently start doing this?

Oh, well -- like my son says -- it's Microsoft, just deal with it and
don't ask questions! ))

Bright Spark

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Bingo! This same problem came up with a document I looked at the other day.
Where this text is is in a footer you're currently not using. By enabling
"Different first page" and/or "Different odd and even," you can have more
than one header/footer per section. If you create such a header/footer and
it is not used, either because you disabled the option or because a given
section doesn't have enough pages to use that header/footer, then it is not
visible in the document, but it still exists and apparently Word checks its
spelling.

When you used Find to search for the text, the result was shown in a pane at
the bottom of the page, right? This totally threw me when I saw it since I'd
never seen anything like that before. At the top of this pane, the type of
footer in which it has been found will be noted (Even Page Header, for
example). That will give you the information you need to enable the
appropriate option to display this header (you may have to insert some blank
pages if your sections are short). Once you can get at it, you can format it
appropriately.

 

[Bright Spark]

Aaaaarrgghh! I tell you what, getting at it is worse than going to
the dentist!

I believe I will just learn to live with this "new" spell check
message I'm getting until Microsoft decides to invade my computer once
again the next time and remove it just as mysteriously as it appeared!
Since it's only a page number it seems to be hell-bent on not
checking, it's not something I will spend any more time worrying
about.

Besides, it gives me another great Microsoft philosophical moment
example -- "Huh?"

LOL!

Thanks, Suzanne.

Bright Spark

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Well, once you understand what the problem is, it's really not that
difficult to get at it. It is just puzzling to figure out where it is.

 

[jgt]

I've encountered a similar issue. I was working on my WinXP Pro with Word
2007. As I was typing I notice that word had stopped auto correcting my
typing (it was working just a few minutes before, this is a new document I
started about 3 hours ago) and spelling errors (I'm the world's worst). I
then pressed F7 and I'm informed that the spelling and grammar check is
complete but I still see errors. As a test I enter a bogus word that is
misspelled, word does not flag it and when I press F7 I'm informed that all
is OK. [If I create a new document and enter bogus text word flags it as
wrong - what the heck has gone wrong with my original document and how do I
correct it?]

I then opened the document (with the spelling issue) on my WinXP Pro Office
2003 system, after word 2003 converted the file I then pressed F7 and I see
the message that the spell check is complete and the "text marked with do
not check spelling or grammar was not checked".

I then open the original DOCX file on another PC with Vista Ultimate and
Word 2007. Well I attempted to open the document, word just hangs. I then
closed the file and created a new test file and word now crashes on this
system. I've tried to open several different documents on this system and in
all cases Word hangs.

Thus I appear to have several different problems and not sure what the heck
is going on.

One more test on my WinXP Pro with office 2007. I created a new document
(word says it is compatibility mode), type a bogus word (teest), Word flags
it, I copy a block of text from my original DOCX that has some spelling
errors, past this into the new document, press F7, Word flags the first
bogus word (teest) which is in paragraph above the pasted text, I click on
the ignore button and then I'm informed "The spelling and grammar is
complete". Thus Word did not see the errors in the pasted paragraph.

One more test - again using the file in the preceding, I clicked on paste
special and chose "text", now word flags the misspelled words in the block I
just pasted as "text". Thus it appears that some formatting issue has been
created and when I clear the formatting the issue disappears.

OK one more test. In this test document I have one line with "teest", I have
the block I copied and just pasted (HTML), and the block I pasted as "text".
I selected all of the text that was just pasted as HTML and clicked on icon
to show all of the styles and selected "Clear All" - now I see the
spelling/type errors. Again this confirms that it is a formatting issue but
I don't know exactly what to do to clear it without clearing all of the
formatting.

I've applied your suggestion in the following and it did not resolve the
issue for me.

IMHO Office 2007 is a royal pain and I hate the ribbon bar, I cannot find
stuff, I cannot customize the darn ribbons, and I find myself clicking about
five times as much as in office 2003. I'm so very sorry I moved to Office
2007. I just installed a new PC for my wife with Vista Ultimate and Office
2007, she has been in tears since.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Suzanne S. Barnhill" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.word.newusers
Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2008 8:50 PM
Subject: Re: Spell Check - "Text Marked Do Not Check..."