Nothing seems to work!
I have tried every suggestion in this thread, as well as suggestions from a few other sites, and nothing is working. I have removed and made new Custom Dictionaries, stored them in a different place, etc., but the problem keeps coming back. While I have a bit of an usual case, the problem did NOT occur with Word 2004. Here is the situation: I have one particular document that I write each week in German (and I must have the German spell checker). Each week I just rename the same document with a different date for the next week, i.e. I do not start over with a new document each week. Also, because none of the people I send it to have Office 2008, this document is saved as ".doc" as they cannot view files with the suffix of ".docx". For that one document, the Language I have chose under Tools is German. Every other document has English (US) as the language chosen. (The Custom Dictionary has "none" chosen for a language, just as I did for Word 2004.)
With Word 2004, there was just 1 Custom Dictionary, and it worked fine with any document (even doing the above). Word 2008 just can't seem to get along with this. If I delete the Custom Dictionary and make a new one, things are fine until I so much as open the .doc document that has German chosen as the language. This didn't matter in the "lower" version, so I just can't understand why it won't work now.
Can anyone help? If the advice is to reinstall 2008, just how do I do that? (That same question was asked earlier in this thread but never answered.)
I will go back to Office 2004 if I have to, but I paid a lot of money for 2008 and would rather not "waste" it. As I said, I have tried every suggestion I could find, but nothing works and am at my wits end. Can anyone help?!?!
Thanks so very much!!