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Proposed Answer Spell Check not running on Outlook 2010

  • Friday, March 19, 2010 4:42 PM
     
     
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    Spell Check option is set check spelling before sending however, spell check is not running.
     

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  • Friday, March 19, 2010 4:57 PM
     
     
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    Are you by chance entering your message in the signature section of the message?  Spell check doesn't check the signature portion.
    Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]
     
  • Monday, March 22, 2010 7:53 AM
     
     
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    Hi,

    This issue maybe caused by without installing with the following Microsoft Office programs:

    • Microsoft Word
    • Microsoft Excel
    • Microsoft PowerPoint
    If you do not have one of these programs installed, this feature maybe not available.
     
  • Monday, March 22, 2010 1:01 PM
     
     
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    Hi,

    This issue maybe caused by without installing with the following Microsoft Office programs:

    • Microsoft Word
    • Microsoft Excel
    • Microsoft PowerPoint
    If you do not have one of these programs installed, this feature maybe not available.

    Spell check is included with Outlook, no need for the other office products. Check before sending should always work; some spell check as you type features require Word.

    Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
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  • Tuesday, May 04, 2010 4:27 PM
     
     
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    Diane,

    I have the same problem with Outlook 2010. Spellcheck is not working in Outlook and Word 2010
    My test sentence is: "the quenn is joung"
    Grammar check is coming back with the should have capital T which is ok but otherwise it believes
    everything is correct.

    As a German person in the US this feature is one of the most important ones I need  :-(

     

     

     
  • Tuesday, May 25, 2010 1:40 PM
     
     
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    Any news regarding this issue... Upgraded Outlook 2007 to Outlook 2010, and now er do not have any Spelling or Grammer correction running. We tried both the Eng and DE versions, same fault! Auto correction does not work either..... Please help...
     
  • Wednesday, May 26, 2010 4:58 AM
     
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    Check to see if the following registry entry exists, and if yes, please take a backup of this key and delete the entry.
    HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Proofing Tools\1.0\Override\en-US
    - Thanks, Jinesh.
    • Proposed As Answer by anthrological Monday, November 22, 2010 9:40 PM
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  • Friday, February 04, 2011 2:06 PM
     
     
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    Microsoft does not have a fix for this.  Thanks for spending $500.00 with me on a faulty program.  I have to reread all emails and documents and do it the old school way.  That's the Microsoft way.  

     

    Correct me if I'm wrong.

     

    No override, no Outlook Shared Features, no fix? 

     
  • Friday, February 04, 2011 2:07 PM
     
     
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    There is nothing like that in my registry.  Isn't this sort of a major error for Outlook?

     

    Anything else you can suggest?

     

    Thansk! 

     
  • Friday, February 04, 2011 2:08 PM
     
     
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    Bill, can you come to my work and fix this?
     
  • Friday, February 04, 2011 2:08 PM
     
     
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    Sorry, Brian.  Can you come to my work and fix this?
     
  • Friday, February 04, 2011 2:18 PM
     
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    There is nothing like that in my registry.  Isn't this sort of a major error for Outlook? 


    You mean this: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Proofing Tools\1.0\Override\en-US

    <wrong>If it doesn't exist, add it.</wrong>

    Oops - that's bad advice as you should be deleting it to fix this problem. <g>

    The usual causes of spell check failing is typing in the sig block (right click on the mispelled word - what menu do you see?) or this key is corrupt and it needs to be deleted. (http://www.slipstick.com/emo/2009/up090611.htm#3)


    Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
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    • Proposed As Answer by rwatters11 Tuesday, March 22, 2011 7:51 PM
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  • Tuesday, March 15, 2011 7:26 PM
     
     
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    I'm having the same issue, sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't.  Today it won't work at all.  I've spent hours trying to figure it out.

     

     
  • Sunday, April 03, 2011 9:04 AM
     
     
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     if you recently upgraded to Outlook 2010 you will no longer have the auto correct options.   To fix this all you have to do is copy winword.exe to the office14 folder.
    Example:
    Copy Winword.exe from here C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\
    to
    C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office14
    Reason this happens: Outlook is looking for its own editor which is word but since we upgraded only Outlook there is no winword in the directory and it fails. If running office 2003 browse to its folder and if all fails just search for winword.exe and copy.
     
  • Sunday, April 03, 2011 12:51 PM
     
     
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     if you recently upgraded to Outlook 2010 you will no longer have the auto correct options.   To fix this all you have to do is copy winword.exe to the office14 folder.

    Note that this hack applies to autocorrect not working, not spell check on send not working or other issues where it sometimes works and sometimes doesn't. Also, if you have any sort of problems with outlook, before asking for help, you need to delete the copy of winword.exe  and verify the problem still exists - hacks like this can have unintended consquences (plus it puts outlook into an unsupported mode).

    Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
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  • Monday, April 25, 2011 1:54 PM
     
     
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    Thank you -- I found this in my registry, deleted it and spell check is now working in Outlook for me.

     

     
  • Wednesday, June 01, 2011 8:09 PM
     
     
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    I agree, adding this toteh registry is bad advice but not completely off-track.

    I have two computer which I work with side-by-side. One computer is running Windows XP and the other runs Windows 7. The Windows XP computer was upgraded from Office 2003 Small Business Edition to Office Pro Plus 2010; the Windows 7 computer has a fresh install of Office Pro Plus 2010.

    On the Windows XP computer I took the previous advice and removed the contents of the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Proofing Tools\1.0\Override key (please note I kept the Override key itself, the key simply has no other settings within it). Once I did this, my auto-correction worked perfectly.

    On the Windows 7 machine I experienced the same problem so I went to go do the same thing in the registry there. To my surprise, there was no Override key listed under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Proofing Tools\1.0. In a spark of insight, I decided to create the key, a blank key named Override. I then closed the registry and opened Outlook and lo and behold, the auto-correct worked.

    Perhaps the absence of the key is what is causing the problem. Perhaps Office looks for the key but doesn't react properly when it discovers that the key is missing. It is also possible that certain settings contained in the key (possibly left from previous versions of the software) confuse the Override settings if they are incompatible or legacy to Office 2010.

     

     
  • Monday, June 06, 2011 11:51 AM
     
     
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    I do not understand why this problem has existed for so long and Microsoft has not fixed it.  Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook], you seem to be a BFD, why hasn't it been fixed?  Why should people who should not be fooling in the registry need to deal with this?

    Thoughts?

     
  • Monday, June 06, 2011 12:16 PM
     
     
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    I do not understand why this problem has existed for so long and Microsoft has not fixed it.  Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook], you seem to be a BFD, why hasn't it been fixed?  Why should people who should not be fooling in the registry need to deal with this?

    Thoughts?


    I haven't checked, but there might be a "Mr Fix it" that removes the override key. It's not something that they will release a hofix for because it doesn't affect many people - and depending on the cause, may not need a hotfix.

    Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
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  • Thursday, June 30, 2011 9:43 PM
     
     
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    Just wanted to say that the registry hack worked for me.

    Thanks

     
  • Thursday, July 21, 2011 8:27 AM
     
     
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    great and very simple fix for auto-correct not working with Outlook 2010, thanks very much indeed
     
  • Tuesday, September 20, 2011 9:13 AM
     
     
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    Brian, You are a bang on... I have had this highly frustrating issue for months now and after reading your email realise that every email I write is in the signature section. Thank you. A. Ditz

     
  • Thursday, October 20, 2011 12:02 PM
     
     
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    I have noticed that if I use Stationary then autocorection and spell checking does not work.

    Any Idea for this?

     
  • Thursday, October 20, 2011 1:42 PM
     
     
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    Is it one of the stationeries shipped with outlook or a custom stationery?

    Did you check the styles used in the stationery and see if they are marked to skip spell check?


    Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
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  • Saturday, October 29, 2011 12:21 AM
     
     
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    This partially worked for me.  It fixed the Auto Cap feature for first letter of a sentence.  But, it does not auto-correct spelling errors.
     
  • Saturday, October 29, 2011 1:55 PM
     
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    iabbass - Thank You.  I did the Winword.exe copy.  This partially helped.  Auto capitalization now works.  But, auto correct still does not.
    • Proposed As Answer by Henri.Bergmann Sunday, April 22, 2012 2:39 PM
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  • Wednesday, February 01, 2012 9:43 PM
     
     
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    This worked for me

    Thanks

    • Proposed As Answer by Henri.Bergmann Sunday, April 22, 2012 2:39 PM
    • Unproposed As Answer by Henri.Bergmann Sunday, April 22, 2012 2:39 PM
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  • Thursday, November 29, 2012 1:24 AM
     
     
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    I would like to thank Jinesh for the note on the deleting the registry key.  None of the other solutions worked (I tried the suggested solutions before this one and many others).

    I would add a note: remeber to close all Office 2010 programs before deleting the key (and don't forget the backup!).

    -Regards, Barbara


    • Edited by BarbaraLloyd Thursday, November 29, 2012 1:25 AM
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  • Friday, January 04, 2013 8:53 AM
     
     
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    i think i am also writing in signature area. plz tell me how do i check if i am writing in siognature area and how do i change it.
     
  • Friday, January 04, 2013 9:07 AM
     
     
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    how do i check it?