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When I open a document in which automatic hyphenation is being used, a few seconds later I get a pop-up that says:
'Word hyphenation feature is not available. Run the Microsoft Office Setup program, install this feature, then try again'
I press OK and it goes away. As far as I can tell, hyphenation is actually working fine but the message is a little worrying.
It is also unhelpful, because I do not have a 'Microsoft Office Setup program" to run.
If I Google it (or Bing it!), I am advised (by this site amongst others) to reinstall. I tried that: a complete download and reinstall from scratch. There was no 'setup' required after installation, it just ran OK.
It made no difference to the pop-up.
How do I
a) reassure myself that here is nothing wrong with hyphenation?
b) make this pop-up go away?
I am running Word for Mac version 16.9 (21050901) on MacOS Catalina version 10.15.7.
A family of Microsoft word processing software products for creating web, email, and print documents.
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Try selecting all the text and then disable the "Do not check spelling or grammar" setting for the selection.
Of course, it is possible that "Do not check spelling or grammar" or an unsupported language is hiding inside a header or footer which currently isn’t visible.
You can use Find & Replace (Ctrl+H) to search for ”Do not check spelling…” which is a character attribute.
Sorry, I got lost in the double negatives.! It is possible that I set 'do not check' for languages that Microsoft des not support, such as latin, or I may have done it by accident. It there a quick way of finding such instances?
No way! That would disable all my spelling and grammar chekcs.
My suggestion was to turn off the "Do not check spelling..." option, for affected text. Doing so will ensure that spellchecking is enabled.
No way! That would disable all my spelling and grammar chekcs.