Error message: "Microsoft Word is not available" for spell checking Thread poster: Profdoc
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Profdoc
Local time: 01:05
Swedish to English
Hello,
I'm getting an error message saying that "Microsoft Word is not available" when I try to use spell checking. I do in fact have MS Word 365 installed and it was working with MemoQ's spell check yesterday. Any ideas why it has stopped working? I'm using MemoQ 9.8.
| | | | Daniel Frisano 
Italy
Local time: 01:05
Member (2008)
English to Italian
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Method 1:
- In MS Word, go to File > Options > Trust Center > Trust Center Settings > Trusted Locations
- Select "Add new location", then browse to C:\[Your user path]\AppData\Roaming
- Add the memoQ folder as trusted location
If that doesn't work,
Method 2:
- In memoQ (I use 9.12), go to Options > Spelling and Grammar
- Select your language, then "hunspell" instead of "MS Word" in both buttons below
Method 2 is less preferable... See more Method 1:
- In MS Word, go to File > Options > Trust Center > Trust Center Settings > Trusted Locations
- Select "Add new location", then browse to C:\[Your user path]\AppData\Roaming
- Add the memoQ folder as trusted location
If that doesn't work,
Method 2:
- In memoQ (I use 9.12), go to Options > Spelling and Grammar
- Select your language, then "hunspell" instead of "MS Word" in both buttons below
Method 2 is less preferable because you're using a different dictionary, so your settings are not synced between Word and memoQ as to words to be ignored. ▲ Collapse
| | | | | memoQ does not save words in the custom dictionary of Microsoft Word | Feb 21, 2023 |
You have to define your own exception dictionaries in memoQ, and that's where false positives are added during spell checking. Sure enough, when I open the translated document in Word, it has underlined as incorrect the same words for which I pressed the "Add" button a few minutes earlier in memoQ.
| | | | Profdoc
Local time: 01:05
Swedish to English
TOPIC STARTER | Method 1 works, thanks! | Feb 22, 2023 |
Method 1 works, I would never have figured that out on my own. Thanks for the tip!
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Daniel Frisano
Italy
Local time: 01:05
Member (2008)
English to Italian
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| @Epameinondas | Feb 22, 2023 |
Right, I think it's only unidirectional, i.e., not a full reciprocal sync:
- memoQ *does* recognize what you mark as acceptable in Word,
- Word *does not* recognize what you mark as acceptable in memoQ.
| | | | Daniel Frisano
Italy
Local time: 01:05
Member (2008)
English to Italian
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Profdoc wrote: Method 1 works, I would never have figured that out on my own.
Me neither. Found it on some forum a few weeks ago when I experienced the same issue...
| | | | Barbara L Pavlik
United States
Local time: 19:05
Member (2011)
Spanish to English
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| Doesn't work for me | Jan 25 |
Hmmm, I was able to follow all the instructions, but it still tells me that Microsoft Word is not available. This is my first time using memoq on a new computer. Any other suggestions?
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