Here's one for you Suzanne. (I mention you by name because you seem to
spend your life on here, helping strugglers like me!).

I have Word 2000 on Windows 98.

The spell check often lets mis-spelled words go - DINNING (when I meant
DINING) comes to mind. I've looked in my dictionaries and dinning
doesn't appear to be an actual word of its own. It is not in the custom
dictionary so I haven't accidentally added it during a previous spell
check. Is there a way of editing it out of the main english
(Australian) dictionary.

The other thing that happens is that the spellcheck seems to isolate
just the parts of words that I'd previously edited using the track
changes option. So for example I may have changed HOPING to HOPED and
spell then highlights the ED on its own and thinks it's a mistake. Any
comments?

One other thing, sometimes find won't pick up a sequence of charcetres
but if I delete and retype them it now does!

I've tested the files in question by saving them as HTM, which appeared
to pick up the normal.dot curruption I previously suffered (and I've
started a completely fresh normal. dot after renaming the old one), and
toggled on the prompt me....