How do I prevent spell chk from chkg headers/footers in word2003

[Guest]

Using Word 2003. While spell checking documents, would like to skip the
headers/footers of the document. Work in transcription and the information
in headers/footers changes constantly, most of it names that are
unrecognizable to spell check. Just need to turn "off" the spell check for
headers/footers. Cannot find information on it.

 

[Jay Freedman]

Using Word 2003. While spell checking documents, would like to skip the
headers/footers of the document. Work in transcription and the information
in headers/footers changes constantly, most of it names that are
unrecognizable to spell check. Just need to turn "off" the spell check for
headers/footers. Cannot find information on it.

If the headers all have the Header style, and the footers all have the
Footer style, then you can modify those two styles to include the "Do
not check spelling and grammar" setting. In the Modify Style dialog,
select one of the styles, click the Format button, choose Language,
and check the box for the setting; repeat for the other style.

If for some reason the headers and footers are in some other styles,
you may have to select the text and manually apply the "Do not check"
setting through the Tools > Language > Set Language dialog.

These settings are easily reversible if you later want to check the
headers/footers.

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[Graham Mayor]

Set the paragraph styles used in the headers/footers to no proofing (it's a
language option of the peragarph style configuration) and don't use the same
styles in the body of the document. Or open and select the header/footer and
set the language option of the selected text to do not check spelling.

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