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Re: Word spell checker not functioning

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From: Ron Edgar
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 00:07
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dvoelker@leland.Stanford.EDU (David Voelker) writes:
:      We have twenty SE's in our lab running (among other things) Word
: 5.0.  Problem: the spelling checker in Word doesn't work on a handful of
: the stations.  When invoked, it gives a "command not installed" error.
: The odd thing is that these stations have exactly the same Word files --
: including the spelling document -- as do stations where the spellcheck
: works properly.  Does anyone know of a way to restore the spelling
: checker's functionality without having to re-install Word from scratch?
:
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: |   Dave Voelker      Stanford University     dvoelker@leland.stanford.edu  |
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Are you running sys 7 -> ?
hmm.. I have no idea why you encounter this problem, but perhaps try installing
the Word5.0a upgrade available by a patcher from any mac archive (e.g. sumex)
hope this helps (I didn't think so...)

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| Ron Edgar            coedgar@wiscon.weizmann.ac.il  (unix)              |
| Weizmann Ins.Sci.    coedgar@wiccmail.weizmann.ac.il (MSmail)           |
| Rehovot Israel   "old chemists never die, they just reach equilibrium"  |
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From: coedgar@wisipc.weizmann.ac.il (Ron Edgar)
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 00:07:18 GMT
Organization: Weizmann Institute of Science, Computation Center.
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