Spellcheck problems in Microsoft Word 2008. Discussion in 'Mac Apps and Mac App Store' started by kevzy, Apr 16, 2008. Spell check in Word 2008 on Apple Computers. It is not available in Office 2008 for Mac. To update Office 2004, you can select Help>Check for Updates in any application, or run the Microsoft AutoUpdate utility in your Applications folder. If you are in Office/Word 2008, use the Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac Service Pack 1 Update (12.1.0.) This is a combo updater including the 12.0.1 update.

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Damaged Preferences and Settings Article contributed by Preferences or Settings files can become damaged, causing a variety of problems. Fortunately these files are easy to test, but they change locations and names depending on your version of Word. Procedure • Quit all Office applications. • Navigate to your ~/Library/Preferences/ folder and drag the file(s) listed below to your desktop. Be sure to start from your UserName folder— ~ is shorthand for your user account. • Relaunch Word. The file(s) will be recreated when you do so.

• If all is well, trash the old file(s). In the case of the Word Preferences/Settings file, you will have to reset some preferences (and, for versions earlier than Word 2008, the AutoCorrect settings).

• If this doesn't help, quit Word again, trash the new files and drag the original files back to where they belong. If using Word 2008, look for leftover preferences from earlier versions (see below). Then see the for other suggestions. Files to Test Since the Word Preferences or Settings files are more likely to cause problems in Word than any of the others, we recommend testing those files (the first file on each of the lists above) before any of the others. Note: ~ indicates your user home account. In Word 2008: ~/Library/Preferences/com.microsoft.Word.plist ~/Library/Preferences/com.microsoft.office.plist ~/Library/Preferences/Microsoft/Office 2008/Office Font Cache (12) [See Font Problems: A Special Case below.] If testing these files in Word 2008 did not fix the problem, then check to see if you have leftover preferences from Word 2004 or earlier versions.

The directions for 2004 are directly below—.