Word 2007 Spell Check NOT working

:cry I am running XP-SP3 and recently upgraded from Office 2003 to Office 2007 Enterprise. Spell checker is working in all Office programs but Word. I have checked Word Options and Review Language and everything points to English-US. I have tried using just the main dictionary and not the custom.dic because when I look at the words in custom.dic there are only 2, but either way it simply won't spell check. I have found other blogs that say use REGEDIT and remove the override key in

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Proofing Tools\1.0

but I do not have that key in my registry.

I would be very grateful for any suggestions. :confused
This is really annoying!

 

I've done everything you suggested, but still nothing. I'm including some screen shots, maybe you will see something I am missing. The misspelled words do not underline and spell/grammar check is only checking grammar. Thanks again for any help.

 

This may help. I checked the registry entries for word and the install language is set to 1033 and the wordspellingoptions are set to 5. :confused

 

:major Thanks to all for the help! Maybe I can now help someone else by posting the SOLUTION (because I really don't like when it doesn't get posted). Here is what finally worked for me. It seems that Office 2007 disables the english dictionary becasue it causes problems with Outlook Express. To turn the dictionary back on in Word 2007 goto:

Microsoft Office Button>
Word Options>
Add Ins>
Manage (select disabled items)>
Click on the english dictionary and re-enable it>
Close Word and restart.
My spell check now works fine.

:-D