spellcheck in a form

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Word Heretic

G'day "annie" <[email protected]>,

Make sur ethe style sin the form do not have No proofing checked.

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annie reckoned:
 
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Suzanne S. Barnhill

Tools | Language | Set Language. Recent versions of Word have a specific
language set and the "Do not check spelling or grammar" box checked; "(no
proofing)" is the language setting in older versions.

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annie said:
I can't find a place to check or uncheck "No Proofing"...
Click to expand...
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/SpellcheckProtectDocContent.htm and was
unable to make it work. Other people must have this problem and there must
be a simple answer, no? I'd love to hear suggestions.
 
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Guest

I am having the same problem (I think). I created a form file. The "Do Not
Check Spelling or Grammar" box is not checked. However, when I do a spell
check, it only checks the text from the orginal form layout, not the data I
entered into the text fields. Am I missing something here?
 
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Guest

Using Word 2004. Must be missing something. I create a form for others to
use. I protect it. When I do this there is no option to allow the data
entered by the user to be spell checked . I don't have the "spelling and
grammar" box checked per previous messages. The macro is not helpful. I'm a
user, not a programmer. When I tried to follw the directions, got the macro
to run, but only if I unprotected the document to be able to get to the macro
utility, which is disabled when you protect the form. When I enter data in
the form while protected and then turn off protection to try to spell check,
does catck any of the miss-spelling in the data I entered while in protected
mode. Help?
 
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Suzanne S. Barnhill

The macro is designed to unprotect the form, run spell check, and then
reprotect the form without clearing it. The form should be a template, and
the macro should be stored in the template (which is presumably unprotected
while you are designing it).

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Charles Kenyon

With your template unprotected, add a command to your Tools menu in the
template. Note that you want to store this in the template, not in
normal.dot!

Tools > Customize... > Commands (tab)
Change Save in to your template.
left window: macros
right window: the macro to spell check forms
Move this to your tools menu (drag it)

You can right-click on the new command to change the displayed name if you
want to something like: &Spellcheck this Form

Then click on the Close button and save your template. With new or existing
forms you should be able to run the spell-check from the Tools menu.
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/AsgnCmdOrMacroToToolbar.htm

If you want, you can make the F7 (Spell-check) key run the macro as well, by
clicking on the Keyboard button on the Customize dialog box. Again, make
sure your changes are being saved in your template.
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/AsgnCmdOrMacroToHotkey.htm

I have enough forms that I choose to make this a global command replacing
the ordinary spellcheck. (If run in a non-form, the macro simply does the
spellcheck which would otherwise be done.) I put this in a global template
(distributed to other users as well) rather than in each template. See
http://addbalance.com/word/movetotemplate.htm for step-by-step instructions
on moving / sharing / copying / backing-up customizations including
AutoText, AutoCorrect, keyboard assignments, toolbars, macros, etc. If you
only have a couple of forms where you would want spell-check to run, I would
simply put the modifications in the template for each form.

Hope this helps. I know it seems overwhelming at first but just follow the
steps outlined and you'll have opened up a whole new world of functionality
in Word for you.
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Doug Robbins - Word MVP

You need to run the macro to execute the spell check. To be able to do
that, you will either need to assign the macro to the keyboard, or to a
button that you add to a toolbar, or to run on exit from one of the
formfields. The reason for that is that the Macro item on the Tools menu is
not enabled when a protected document is the active document.

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