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Previously Office 2010 Dictionary had been working fine, now nothing dictionary and thesaurus missing. Please help.
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Make sure that the correct language is applied to text. On the Review tab, click Language | Set Proofing Language.
Also, as long as you have the Language dialog box open, make sure to clear the "Detect language automatically" option. Doing so will prevent the language from changing at the insertion point.
No help Stefan! Still no go with dictionary. Was working fine now it is gone!
Hello All,
What he is saying is that the Dictionary is not in the reference list period. I have the same problem. You go through the steps and the list only contains Thesaurus entries, there are no dictionary entries. With that said, you cannot see the definition of the word. Now, word does auto check and give suggestions for correcting the spelling of the word.
Now is it possible for someone from MS to answer why we would not see the list of dictionaries in the reference list so we can look up the definition of the word?
Thanks
-Ed
Thank you for your suggestions, Doug. None of them are correcting the issue of the missing dictionary.
As Ed suggests, this is a Microsoft bug. How can we get Microsoft to fix what is CLEARLY a Microsoft problem without us paying them for the 'support'?
I would be interested in seeing a screen shot of the Research Options dialog showing the absence of the Encarta dictionary.