Office 2010 Spell Check

I use office 2010 and rely on spell check to catch any spelling errors in my documents. I realized recently that the feature was not working since I upgraded and no matter what I tried, it would not turn on correctly. I had all the settings correct, but it turns out it was a rouge registry entry. I found the solution here: http://forums.techarena.in/ms-office-support/877476.htm.

I had to delete the registry key located at: "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Proofing Tools\1.0\Override and like magic - the spell check started working again. Why on earth would that happen? Does anyone really not want spell check enabled?

Office 2010 impressions

I just went through the upgrade to Office 2010 - what a journey but it seems worth it so far.

• Downloaded x86 and 64 versions last night
• looking forward to install!
• Tried to set restore point on work machine - policy lock out! (Really???)
• Start install and wait... stopped and told need SP3
• Mad hunt on M$ site for SP3 (really about 1 minute) since not a corp distro
• found and downloading.......... still downloading .........
• now extracting.............................................
• Now installing.............................................
• REALLY!!! ok - I'm patient and I can multi task to get my mind on something useful
• So the install of SP3 took a very long time and I picked up the rest of the install the following day in the office while I went to another meeting - I did a full upgrade install.
• Install completed (finally!!)

The result is a nice office experience that seems to work well. I a very pleased with Outlook and the search / threaded discussion capability. The other apps work as expected with tweaks here and there. I am going to upgrade my home machine next and that's a 64 bit machine with 6G of ram so it will be a good comparison to the 32 bit laptop install.