Is this Word 2003? Word 2003 has a strange habit of losing some of its tools
options settings for no apparent reason. You can force those that change
to your will by setting the preferences in autonew and autoopen macros. This
will work in other recalcitrant Word versions also, but 2003 seems to be the
one with the problem.

Sub AutoNew()
With Options
.CheckSpellingAsYouType = False
.CheckGrammarAsYouType = False
End With
End Sub

Sub AutoOpen()
With Options
.CheckSpellingAsYouType = False
.CheckGrammarAsYouType = False
End With
End Sub

If macros of these names already exist add the code to them. If you find any
other commands misbehaving (and you probably will) you can add their
instructions also

See http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm


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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



Michael wrote:
How do I get the "Hide spelling errors in this document" to off stay
permanently? Whenever I start Word, it's checked by default. I'd
like it un-checked by default.

Michael