I opened a New document and copied some text from my Notpad into it. Then I ran a spell check and received the attached error message. So I opened a few different documents and when I ran a spell check on them, everything worked okay but I still got the error message on my New document.




I've been using Word 2000 since it came out and never had this problem. What might be the cause?

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Spell checks are language-specific so your issue may be related to the language which is applied to the text in that particular document. If you select that text and apply your preferred dictionary language to it, does the spell check still fail?

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Andrew Lockton
Chrysalis Design, Melbourne Australia

I don't think that there is anything wrong with my dictionary. It has been performing spell checks without fail for the last 24+ years. I'm more thinking that it is some kind of fluke problem but I have no idea how it occurred.


The file that causes it (test.doc) is on the desktop. When I open the file, a dimmed "ghost" file appears appears on the desktop. See the attached file. That ghost file is named "~$test.doc". When I close Word, the ghost file disappears.


Here's what I did to get rid of the ghost file:
1. Copied the text in test.doc to my Notepad
2. Copied the Notepad text to a new Word document
3. Saved the new Word document as test2.doc to my D: drive
4. Closed and reopened test2.doc
5. Made a change to "dirty" the test2.doc
6. Ran a Spell Check on test2.doc (it ran correctly)
7. Deleted test.doc from the desktop

8. Used "Everything.exe" to verify that no ghost file appeared anywhere on my computer
9. Verified that "Backup of test2.wbk" appears in the same folder as test2.doc
10. Saved test2.doc and closed Word.

The spell check problem has not reoccurred, and it appears that if I create a Word file on the desktop, a ghost file will also appear on the desktop. I assume that spell check problem was just a fluke and I'm writing this just in case somebody else has experienced the same problem.

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When you open any Word document (on the desktop or other location), a ghost file is always created and it is not related to your spelling issue.

I still think your issue was with the language applied to the content (which directs the spell check to a specific dictionary). When you pasted unformatted text into a different document, the language applied to that new text changed.

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Andrew Lockton
Chrysalis Design, Melbourne Australia

As a side note, the Desktop is a very poor place to keep your documents.

Yeah, I know. Normally I only put shortcuts on the desktop.

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I've been using Word since version 1 came out in the late 1980s.



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