ID: Q111835
6.00 6.00a 6.00c WINDOWS
The information in this article applies to:
A general protection (GP) fault may occur in Word for Windows if you run the Soft-Art Dictionary spelling checker supplied with Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Publisher, or Microsoft Mail.
The Soft-Art shared spelling checker uses a different .DLL (MSSPELL.DLL) than the one used by the International CorrectSpell spelling checker (MSSPEL2.DLL) supplied with Word 6.0.
The Soft-Art .DLL uses MS-DOS file handles. When Word runs this .DLL, if the FILES setting in your CONFIG.SYS file is too low, a GP fault soon occurs. You can delay the occurrence of the GP fault by increasing the FILES setting, but the GP fault eventually occurs in Word, no matter how much you increase the FILES setting.
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Word 6.0, 6.0a, and 6.0c for Windows.This problem was corrected in Word version 7.0 for Windows 95.
This problem was corrected in Microsoft Excel 5.0c for Windows. For more information, please see the following article(s) in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
ARTICLE-ID: Q112027
TITLE : XL5: GP Fault Checking Spelling in Worksheet
Method 1: Change the Spelling setting in the [Microsoft Word] section of
your WINWORD6.INI file (located in the Windows program
directory) so it points to the location of the Word 6.0 spelling
checker files. The following is a sample WINWORD6.INI entry that
points to the Word 6.0 spelling checker files. (Note: For Word
6.0 this setting takes precedence over any other spelling
setting in other .INI files.)
[Microsoft Word]
Spelling 1033,0=C:\WINDOWS\MSAPPS\PROOF\MSSPEL2.DLL,
C:\WINDOWS\MSAPPS\PROOF\MSSP2_EN.LEX
the WIN.INI file (located in the Windows program directory) so
it points to the location of the Word 6.0 spelling checker files
The following is a sample WIN.INI entry that points to the
Word 6.0 spelling checker files. (Note: This setting changes the
location of the spelling checker for all applications that share
the MS Proofing Tools, including Word, unless you set a
different location in WINWORD6.INI, as described in Method 1
above.)
[MS Proofing Tools]
Spelling 1033,0=C:\WINDOWS\MSAPPS\PROOF\MSSPEL2.DLL,
C:\WINDOWS\MSAPPS\PROOF\MSSP2_EN.LEX
Word Readme Help: Double-click the Help button on the Standard toolbar, and then type "readme" (without the quotation marks).
KBCategory: KBSubcategory: Additional reference words: 6.00 6.00a officeinterop gpf Soft-Art 6.00c soft art sa hm houghton mifflin 5.00c w4wexcel co. winword mspell.dll word6 msspel2.dll
Keywords : kbproof
Version : 6.00 6.00a 6.00c
Platform : WINDOWSLast Reviewed: November 17, 1998