You could also look for words marked as misspelled, since the word I think
you're looking for is "maelstrom." g

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"Greg" wrote in message
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Michael,

Word doesn's have that specific feature. You can use EditReplace and
replace malestrom with malestrom and Word will report the number of
replacements made. I have put together a Word Add-In that is useful
for this purpose see:
http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Find_it_tool_bar.htm