Microsoft Word 2007 not recognizing misspelled words

I have the same problem but I bought this version and didn't have word on my
computer to begin with I need to find a dictonary I can't use an old one
there was never one there and where are you finding the settings to change??

"Jen" wrote:

> I have just started using Word 2007 (was using office 2003) and my spellcheck
> is only catching the grammatical mistakes but not the spelling errors.
>
> I.E. only green curlys and no red ones.
>
> I have already ensured that:
> "Do not check spelling and grammar"
> "Detact language automatically"
> "Hide spelling errors in this document only"
> "Hide grammar error in this document only"
> are ALL UNchecked.
>
> It is not just that the automatic checker is not working. I can type
> blatantly misspelled words like "hfkdgifg" into the document and manually
> click check spelling and grammar. The check comes back with the "spelling
> and grammar check is complete" without finding one single spelling error in
> the whole document of misspellings.