My spellchecker doesn't seem to be working. It might be me since I've been using works mostly up til now, but I did use word some on my older windows 98 computer and the spellchecker worked so well it was almost a PITA. Now, I can purposely misspell a word and it just give me the check complete box instantly with now changes or anything. Any help?
Thanks!

With Word 2007, I would start with the Office Oval > Word Options > Proofing and see what I had checked and unchecked

With Word 2002, I suspect Options are under Tools

Even if this does NOT provide you the exact answer, this answer should help you farther refine your question

I'm running Office for XP or office xp. Would that be any different?

I suspect not, if you can find your Word Options probably under Tools

If you can find what I suggested this should get you started

Let me know if it doesn't get you started on a solution

I looked under Tools/options/spelling and grammar and I'm showing a custom dictionary [CUSTOM.DIC(default)]. Maybe I need a different dictionary?

Does this help?

With 2007, I show "Custom Dictionary," but this is where Word puts in any words I want to add to the dictionary

Under my Options both this and the main dictionary are unchecked, obviously

Hmm..... Custom dictionary is the only thing listed on mine. I wonder if I can download a dictionary from microsoft? Can you give me any idea as to where I should look for downloadable dictionaries?