Word 97 Spell Check

[hyphven]

I have a lab with 20 wndows 2k workstations. There are all on a domain with the PDS being a Mac OS X server.

I am having trouble with the Spell Check in Word 97. I can open the spell checker and it works fine logged in an as any admin, but when a normal user logs on he/she cannot open the spell check.

It does not show up in the 'Tools' menu, but us does have the '(checkmark)abc' button on the tool bar. When I click the button nothing happens. No error message. Nothing. I tried setting the language. That did not do anything either.

Any help would be much appreciated. Thank you. 8)

 

[hollett]

Sounds like you have a permissions problem.

Try getting Filemon and regmon from sysinternals.com (free software).
Log on as a user run Word.
Start regmon and filemon using the runas command (hold down shift and left click on file) set the filters to 'Word'.
click on the spell checker in Word and then check filemon and regmon for any access denied enteries.
Change the permissions on these files to allow 'users' full control.

Try the software again and repeat until working.

P.S you may find it easer to note any files or registry key down to change on the other computers.

 

[comserv]

Hi
I had this same problem and at once I found solution. To solve his problem go to
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;257643

and do it all.

Best regards

comserv
Jan Prokopek
comserv@arco.pl