The spell checker on Word 2003 stopped working. It is on in options. Any ideas?

I use Word 2003 on windows 7 64bit. Everything has been working great. Yesterday the spell cheker stopped working. I checked Tools-> options -> spell & grammar. The boxes are checked.

Any Ideas?
There are several things that can stop spell checking. Look at the appropriate section of http://wordfaqs.mvps.org/MasterSpellCheck.htm.
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Your suggestion helped. I read everything. I think it may come from the document I was working on. It was sent to me for suggestions. I opened an old document and a new document and the checker worked fine.  I guess I will have to get some who can spell to help.

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Try this:

  • Ctrl+A to select all the document text.
  • Then go to Tools | Language | Set Language.
  • Make sure that the box for "Do not check spelling or grammar" is completely clear. If it is filled (shaded), you will need to click twice to check and then clear it.
  • Then click OK.

 

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I checked and the box was unchecked.  I think this program may have been written on some Ipad program  and the converted to a doc file.

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