Spell Check Problem?

[Geoff Hart <ghart -at- videotron -dot- ca>]

Katherine Darges wondered: <<My Word document, approx 30 pages, has 
suddenly (it wasn't doing this yesterday) started showing that little 
red underline on a dozen random words.  They aren't mispelled or 
strange words (because, operate, open...).  Just to be sure I wasn't 
missing something, I selected "because" and checked it with spell 
check.  The options I was given were all in FRENCH.  The same with each 
of the other "mispelled" words.  What the heck?  Where did the French 
come in all of a sudden on those few words?>>

Clearly it's a French plot. I suspect your computer has been hijacked 
by anti-U.S. French cybercommandos intent on paying back your country 
for decades of perceived slights. <g> Here in Canada, I've seen similar 
problems with U.S. English becoming U.K. English, presumably for 
similarly sinister reasons. <g>

This is one of those relatively minor document corruptions that strikes 
Word for no apparent reason... I suspect it has something to do with 
Word's gothically (and comically) ornate .doc file format, which makes 
documents vulnerable to occasional bit-flips. In effect, Word simply 
forgets what it's doing, and it's not always easy to make it remember 
again.

The standard cure for document corruption is to copy the entire 
document _except the final paragraph marker_ into a clean new document 
and work from there. If necessary, you can also select the individual 
words that are causing you problems and reapply the correct language 
settings (Tools-->Language). It may take a couple tries, but it usually 
works.

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Geoff Hart   ghart -at- videotron -dot- ca
(try geoffhart -at- mac -dot- com if you don't get a reply)
www.geoff-hart.com
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