WD2000: Novell Grammar Checker Broken Upgrading to Office 2000

ID: Q241098

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Word 2000

IMPORTANT: This article contains information about editing the registry. Before you edit the registry, make sure you understand how to restore it if a problem occurs. For information about how to do this, view the "Restoring the Registry" Help topic in Regedit.exe or the "Restoring a Registry Key" Help topic in Regedt32.exe.

NOTE: The information in this article applies to the French, German, Dutch, and Spanish version(s) of Word. However, it is not limited to those versions.

SYMPTOMS

In a non-English language version of Microsoft Office 2000, when you click Spelling and Grammar on the Tools menu to check the grammar in your Microsoft Word document, you may receive an error message similar to following:

Word cannot start the Grammar Checker

NOTE: This error message is in the language of the version of Office that you are running. For example, in German, the error message would be

Word kann das Grammatikprogramm nicht starten

and in French, the error message would be

Impossible de demarrer le verificateur de grammaire

CAUSE

This problem only occurs when you upgrade over an existing installation of an earlier version of Microsoft Word, and the path for the Novell proofing tools in the Windows registry is not updated for Microsoft Word 2000.

WORKAROUND

WARNING: Using Registry Editor incorrectly can cause serious problems that may require you to reinstall your operating system. Microsoft cannot guarantee that problems resulting from the incorrect use of Registry Editor can be solved. Use Registry Editor at your own risk.

For information about how to edit the registry, view the "Changing Keys and Values" Help topic in Registry Editor (Regedit.exe) or the "Add and Delete Information in the Registry" and "Edit Registry Data" Help topics in Regedt32.exe. Note that you should back up the registry before you edit it. If you are running Windows NT, you should also update your Emergency Repair Disk (ERD).

To correct this problem, do the following:

Quit all Windows programs.

On the Start menu, click Run.

In the Open box, type regedit and click OK.

NOTE: If you are running Microsoft Windows NT, type regedt32 and click OK.

In the Registry Editor, select the following registry subkey (folder)
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Novell\Grammatik\6.1\Microsoft\language
where language refers to the language-specific version of Word you are using, for example, FR for French, or DE for German.

On the Edit menu, click Delete.

Repeat steps 4 and 5 for HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Novell\Grammatik\6.1\Microsoft\language, if it exists, as well.

On the Registry menu, click Exit.

NOTE: When you start Microsoft Word after deleting the language subkey, Word rebuilds the subkey with the correct language settings.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article.

MORE INFORMATION

This problem primarily affects, but is not limited to, the following non-English language versions of Microsoft Word 2000:

French
German
Dutch
Spanish

The correct path for the Novell Proofing Tools in Microsoft Word 2000 is as follows

drive:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft\Shared\Proof\Language id

where language id is the folder for your specific language. For example, for French, the path in the registry is as follows:

drive:\Program files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Proof\1036

This path setting to the Novell proofing tools should be correctly registered in the following location in the Windows registry

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Novell\Grammatik\6.1\Microsoft\language

where language refers to the language-specific version of Word that you are using, for example, FR for French or DE for German.

Additional query words: novell grammar language grammaire grammatikprogramm grammaticacontroleprogramma

Keywords : kbdta wd2000 kblpk
Version : WINDOWS:2000
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbbug