Russ' Do It Yourself Home Workshop

I’m still not convinced that the Office tool ribbon  does anything for me that the previous toolbars and menus failed to do.  Here’s my latest example.

I was editing a document and received the message,

Text marked with "do not check spelling or grammar" was skipped.

I don’t remember marking anything with "do not check spelling or grammar."  So now I went on a quest to figure out where this magic setting was hidden.  Since it said "spelling and grammar" I thought I’d look here.

But no such luck.  How about Proofing in Word Options?

Nope!  What are you, CRAZY?  Finally I found this post about Word 2003 that led me to looking at some of the mystery meat tool ribbon navigation.  Since we don’t have a Tools menu, I hovered my mouse around until I found the language options.  That’s convenient…no text, just an easily interpreted icon.  A white thing with a red check mark with a green globe thing in the background.  How could I have missed that?  That says "language options" to me!  Talk to me!

There’s that danged setting!  You have to play with it a little to make sure it doesn’t keep coming back.  I’d suggest using a 16 oz. ball-peen hammer.