Dreaded Microsoft error message, help.

I am trying to run spell check in Word from Office 2004 for Mac and, in addition to its inability to identify spelling mistakes, it keeps displaying an error message telling me the Russian and Czech languages are not installed and to re-install so that spell check will run. I am certainly not writing in either of those languages, moreover, I re-installed Office 2004 and I still keep getting the error message and spell check will not pick up spelling mistakes.

I do not know what to do from here so I am turing to the forum for some help. Is it possible the is a Mac OS issue related to languages? I will note I used monolingual to cut down on space issues, but certainly did not touch russian, as my father is russian, and doubt I did anything with czech.

 

that was an incredibly useful and direct answer, especially from such a new MR member! That's not to say new member status has any relationship to informative posting, but often people are more focused on getting the most posts as possible as quickly as possible and not answering questions like this one. Again, thank you very much and welcome to MR.

 

And to that (your Apple purchase) I saw Bravo! Which machine did you end up getting and how are you liking it so far?

 

I am still getting an error message stating: Russian proofing tools are not installed. I have custom installed Office 2004 twice now, but still no luck. Is it possible that this an OS issue and how would I go about adding Russian proofing tools to my Mac? I am running 10.4.9

I could use the help asap!

 

here ya go.

 

It was set as default already.

Totally legit, US copy.

Yes I see all of those. Notably though, I do not see Czech or Russian.

English (US) is highlighted.

 

Nope, mine looks identical to yours.

 

I included everything other than entourage and messenger.

 

So something interesting happened. I closed word, went back in to it today and went into preferences where I just deselected everything I have checked and then re-selected the exact same items. I went into my word doc and hit spell check rather than just hoping that it would pick up on a problem when I misspelled something and it worked just fine.

I have not clue why this would happen. While I am glad to have a temporary solution, this by no means should be something I need to do regularly so it is still not resolved.

 

yes they do, especially since it is acting up again. What do you think about the getting whatever fonts I pulled off back on. How would I even do that, please don't say archive and install....