MahlerIsGod

All the sudden today my Microsoft Word 2002 starts to act up. It no longers catches the spelling errors as I type and I can no longer use the thesaurus quick keys. I tried to uninstalling and reinstalling but no dice. It still does the exact same thing. I try making intentional and outlandish errors for the checker to catch but when I select the spell checker it doesn't catch the errors. I need a spell checker as I am a horrible speller. What gives? Is there anything else I can do? Hints, suggestions, tips, etc. This couldn't happen at a worse at the end of a semester when all I am doing is writing papers. If anyone can help it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

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"But a work of art is a conscious human effort that has to do with communication. It is that or its nothing. When an accident is applauded as a work of art, when a cult grows up around the deliciousness of inadvertent beauty, we are in the presence of the greatest decadence the West has known in its history."