Cannot find the proofing tools for english

I do not want German Proofing tools on. Is there a download available? Thanks for your help, Wadi. Error:Cannot find proofing tools for German Switzerland. Cannot find proofing tools for German Switzerland. If you have the proofing tools,try installing or re-installing them.

Contact your local reseller to obtain Office proofing tools. The Default Keyboard layout is German. In spell check the language is English United Kingdom. When we try to do a spellcheck it throws uo the above error. I tried switching language to English UK but it still prompts with this error.

But when I change the keyboard layout to English Uk everything is fine. But the keyboard on the machine is a German. So dont know wat to do. Please help me. Search Search Topics. Advanced Search. Not a member? Office spell checker not working Hi all Spelling Mistakes For spelling mistakes in Office there are no red lines showing the actual spelling mistakes. Send a private message to mallybee. Find latest posts by mallybee.

Send a private message to twinkiedooter. Find latest posts by twinkiedooter. Send a private message to ScottGem. This is because Office uses new proofing tools and OE can't use them because it's designed to use the older tools.

It's easy to fix: install just the proofing tools from your previous version of Office using the custom install option. You can get them from any older Office suite or application - including FrontPage, Publisher or standalone versions of Word, Excel, or Outlook. To install just the proofing tools from Office , run Office setup and choose the custom option.

Uncheck all programs in the list and add a check to choose the options at the bottom of the programs list. No the nest screen, set each top level item to be Not Available red X icon. Expand the Office Shared Features branch and locate Proofing tools in the list. Expand proofing tools and choose English, setting it to Run from my computer. Finish the installation. Once installed, restart OE - go to Tools, Options and verify Spelling is configured to use the correct English dictionary.

Proofing Tools, Part 2 for potential problems. Some workarounds run afoul of the law of unintended consequences. Yesterday's tip about installing the proofing tools is one of those workarounds - after you install the proofing tools from an earlier version of Office then try to install an add-in under the Genuine Advantage program, the proofing tools may cause the add-in installation to fail because it's not activated.

If it's a must-have add-in, either install the proofing tools from Office no activation required , a 3rd party spell check program or uninstall the proofing tools, install the add-in then reinstall the proofing tools.

While it's annoying ok, it sucks! For example, I've been using Office 's proofing tools in OE for several months, but only discovered these issues week, after I got a new laptop for Christmas and tried to install the calendar printing assistant Tip OL Calendar Printing Assistant to check for a problem a user reported.

Also note that if you install the proofing tools after installing Office , you should run Office diagnostics, just to be safe. I ran into 2 minor issues if the Office install is not repaired: the Start menu icon does not work as expected and templates may not open if you double click on them in Windows Explorer.

There may be more Windows update will probably want to install updates for the older version of Office. These can safely be refused since you only have the proofing tools installed, but the update service doesn't know this; like Genuine Advantage, it only knows you have something from that version installed. At some point in the future, Microsoft may or may not release a standalone installation of the proofing tools to fix this issue, until then, there are a number of 3rd party spelling tools available, such as OE2.

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