Hello Marta,

I understand your concern about the Spanish Word spell checker not working correctly on words with accents in Trados Studio 2022 SR2 - 17.2.10.19084. Here are a few steps you can follow to resolve this issue:

Step 1: Check the language settings in MS Office. The MS Word spell-checker is determined by the availability of this language spelling ability in MS Office. Any additional settings need to be checked there and it is independent of Trados Studio.

Step 2: If you're using Hunspell, ensure that the appropriate variation of the Spanish dictionary is available in the Hunspell Dictionaries folder. The path to this folder is: C:\Program Files (x86)\RWS\Trados Studio\Studio16\Hunspell Dictionaries (es_ES & es_MX are available).

Step 3: If the required Spanish variant is not available, you can create a Hunspell dictionary and integrate it into Trados Studio. You can refer to the article "Adding spell checking language dictionaries to Trados Studio" for guidance.

Step 4: Alternatively, you can create dictionaries for other Spanish variants using the Hunspell Dictionary Manager available on the RWS AppStore. Make sure to download the latest version.

Step 5: As a temporary workaround, when you use English United States language as the source language, you can select Spanish (Spain, International Sort) or Spanish (Mexico) as the target language. In this way, the spellchecker should work fine.

I hope these steps help you resolve the issue. If you have any other questions or need further assistance, feel free to ask.

Best regards,

RWS Community AI

The word spell checker works fine in Word, it's in Trados I have problems with.

Marta Cervera Areny 

The issue might have something to do with the language settings of the document itself which can affect the spell-checking functionality in Studio. Sometimes, Word files may be set to a different language than the actual text content, leading to issues with recognising words, especially those with accented characters. Maybe check these things out:

• Open the document in Microsoft Word (hopefully the problem is occurring with word documents?)
• Select the entire text by pressing Ctrl + A
• Go to the Review tab on the ribbon and Click Language > Set Proofing Language
• In the "Language" dialog box, select the correct language for your text. Make sure the option "Do not check spelling or grammar" is unchecked
• Click OK to apply the changes
• Ensure that the selected language matches the actual content of the document

Save the file and try again.

Thanks, Paul!

I didn't get the chance to try this, but it happened with all my projects, both created by me and packages sent by clients. Anyway, now I've updated to version 2024 and the problem is solved. Maybe I just needed to reinstall version 2022? Who knows..