Some Office 2003 proofing tools may not behave as expected in 2007 Office programs

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SYMPTOMS

After you upgrade a Microsoft Office 2003 installation to Microsoft Office 2007, some Office 2003 proofing tools may not behave as expected in 2007 Office programs.

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CAUSE

This behavior may occur because some Office 2003 proofing tools are incompatible with 2007 Office programs.

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The following table shows the unexpected behavior that you may experience when you use the Office 2003 proofing tools in 2007 Office programs.

Note To use this table, find the number that corresponds to the language and to the 2007 Office program that you want. Then, see the "Legend" table for a description of the behavior that corresponds to the number.

For example, suppose that the language that you want is French, and the 2007 Office program that you want is Microsoft Office Excel 2007. In this case, the number 4 in the table corresponds to "Grammar errors are not found."

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Language	Access	Excel	Groove	InfoPath	OneNote	Outlook	PowerPoint	Project	Publisher	Visio	Word
Arabic			1, 2					1
Basque	3	3	1, 2	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3
Brazilian			1, 2
Bulgarian			1, 2
Catalan			1, 2
Croatian			1, 2
Czech		4	1, 2			4	4				4
Danish			1, 2
Dutch			1, 2
Estonian		5	1, 2			5	5		5		5
Finnish			1, 2
French		4	1, 2			4	4				4
Galician			1, 2
German		4, 5	1, 2			4, 5	4, 5		5		4, 5
Greek			1, 2
Gujarati			1, 2	1
Hebrew			1, 2					1
Hindi			1, 2					1
Hungarian		5	1, 2			5	5		5		5
Icelandic			1, 2
Indonesian			1, 2
Irish			1, 2
Italian		4	1, 2			4	4				4
Kannada			1, 2					1
Latvian			1, 2
Lithuanian			1, 2
Marathi			1, 2					1
Norwegian (Bokmal)			1, 2
Norwegian (Nynorsk)			1, 2
Polish		4	1, 2			4	4				4
Portuguese			1, 2
Punjabi			1, 2					1
Romanian		5	1, 2								5
Russian			1, 2
Serbian (Cyrillic)	2	2, 5	1, 2	2	2	2, 5	2, 5	2	2, 5	2	2, 5
Serbian (Latin)			1, 2
Slovak			1, 2
Slovenian			1, 2
Spanish		4	1, 2			4	4				4
Swedish			1, 2
Tamil			1, 2					1
Telegu			1, 2					1
Thai			1, 2					1
Turkish		5	1, 2			5	5		5		5
Ukrainian			1, 2	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3
Vietnamese			1, 2
Welsh			1, 2

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Number	Unexpected behavior
1	The spell checker flags the word that was just added to the custom dictionary.
2	The spell checker does not give spelling suggestions.
3	The spell checker cannot add the word to the custom dictionary.
4	Grammar errors are not found.
5	Hyphenation does not function.

For more information about Office 2003 proofing tools, visit the following Microsoft Web site:

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/ork2003/HA011402181033.aspx (http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/ork2003/HA011402181033.aspx)

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