Word 2002 Hyphenation Error
"Word cannot find the hyphenation file mshyph2.dll or mshy32.dll for ."
After working on a manuscript for several months in Microsoft Word 2002, this error message began to pop up whenever the document was opened. I thought it was just another ~!@#$%^&*()_+ Microsoft "issue," since hyphenation was evidently working just fine.
Googling the error message — my usual strategy for finding solutions for such nuisances — I found several referances to the problem, but no solutions that actually worked. A few weeks after having given up, I decided to have another shot at figuring out what was going on.
It turned out that Word was actually doing the right thing.
The only installed language in my setup was "English (US)" and I had enabled "Automatically hyphenate document" and "Detect Language Automatically." The manuscript did have a few foreign language words scattered about, so I suppose Word was trying to figure out what they were, and when it so happened that one of them wound up too close to the right margin, it wanted to hyphenate it, but had two problems. It couldn't figure out what the language was, so wasn't able to come up with any hyphenation file for it — hence the missing attribute at the end of the error message. What began to clue me is was that when I got into the registry and changed the pointer to the existing "mshyph2.dll" file, the error message that then popped up said, "Word cannot find the hyphenation file mshyph2.dll or mshy32.dll for English(U.S.)."
Having no need to deal with any language other than English(U.S.), I did this in Word:
• Turned off automatic language detection — uncheck "Tools > Language > Set Language... > Detect Language Automatically"
• Selected the entire manuscript and marked it as "English(U.S.) — "Tools > Language > Set Language... > Mark selected text as: > English(U.S.)"
• Changed the "normal.dot" template so these settings would be applied automatically to future documents — "Tools > Language > Set Language... > Default... > "Do you want to ..." > Yes.
I've never seen the hyphenation error message since.
After working on a manuscript for several months in Microsoft Word 2002, this error message began to pop up whenever the document was opened. I thought it was just another ~!@#$%^&*()_+ Microsoft "issue," since hyphenation was evidently working just fine.
Googling the error message — my usual strategy for finding solutions for such nuisances — I found several referances to the problem, but no solutions that actually worked. A few weeks after having given up, I decided to have another shot at figuring out what was going on.
It turned out that Word was actually doing the right thing.
The only installed language in my setup was "English (US)" and I had enabled "Automatically hyphenate document" and "Detect Language Automatically." The manuscript did have a few foreign language words scattered about, so I suppose Word was trying to figure out what they were, and when it so happened that one of them wound up too close to the right margin, it wanted to hyphenate it, but had two problems. It couldn't figure out what the language was, so wasn't able to come up with any hyphenation file for it — hence the missing attribute at the end of the error message. What began to clue me is was that when I got into the registry and changed the pointer to the existing "mshyph2.dll" file, the error message that then popped up said, "Word cannot find the hyphenation file mshyph2.dll or mshy32.dll for English(U.S.)."
Having no need to deal with any language other than English(U.S.), I did this in Word:
• Turned off automatic language detection — uncheck "Tools > Language > Set Language... > Detect Language Automatically"
• Selected the entire manuscript and marked it as "English(U.S.) — "Tools > Language > Set Language... > Mark selected text as: > English(U.S.)"
• Changed the "normal.dot" template so these settings would be applied automatically to future documents — "Tools > Language > Set Language... > Default... > "Do you want to ..." > Yes.
I've never seen the hyphenation error message since.
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