Spell Check Keeps Popping Up

Anonymous
2010-12-26T07:03:20+00:00

My spell check box keeps popping up out of the blue in my Word, Excel and Outlook. It will not go away and I can't type after the box pops up.  I have turned off auto spell check.  It just started doing this recently and I can't use my computer due to this.  How to fix and why did this occur? Thanks.

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Doug Robbins - MVP - Office Apps and Services 323.7K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
2010-12-26T07:16:13+00:00

It could possibly be a faulty keyboard.  In Office applications, the F7 key launches the spell checker and perhaps it is being activated in some way.

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Anonymous
2010-12-29T10:54:37+00:00

Try to open Word 2010 programs in application safe and check.

Go to Start->Click on All programs-> Accessories-> Run->

Type winword /safe and Click on ok (Note: There should be a space between d and ‘/’)

If it works fine in application safe, then try to disable the adobe addins.

How to disable Add-ins in Word 2010:-

Step1: Click the File Tab in Word 2010 and Click Word Options.

Step2: In the left hand side of the Word Options dialog box, click Add-Ins.

Step3: Under ‘Manage’ Click the COM Add-ins

Step4: Uncheck all the Add-Ins listed under COM Add-ins.

Step5: Click close and restart Word.

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  1. Anonymous
    2017-03-30T23:07:57+00:00

    I just had this spell check is complete issue and quickly resolved it by blowing away the user's windows profile and re-creating it.

    Follow these steps:

    Log in as a local admin and rename the user's corrupt profile folder to username.old. His profile folder is located under C:\Users. Then delete the user's associated registry key located in HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList. Reboot the PC and have the user log in to create a new user profile. Have the user log off and log in as a local admin.Copy all files except Ntuser.dat Ntuser.dat.log and Ntuser.ini from the C:\users\username.old folder to the newly created C:\users\username

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  2. Anonymous
    2017-03-12T20:15:16+00:00

    You are very clever Doug Robbins, F7 keeps sticking - food crumbs cleaned problem fixed - Thank you very much

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  3. Stefan Blom 354.2K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2017-01-22T00:30:36+00:00

    How can this be done in a Windows 10 computer?

    For information on troubleshooting add-ins, see the sections that refer to COM and Startup add-ins in the article "How to troubleshoot problems that occur when you start or use Word" at https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/921541/how-to-troubleshoot-problems-that-occur-when-you-start-or-use-word.

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