Yes: Any text you mark as "No Proofing" will be ignored by the
spell-checker.

Obviously, you need to do this in your Main Document.

Normally, one would use a Style for this. Define a style named "No
Spelling" that has all the properties of the underlying style plus a
"Language" of "Do not check spelling or grammar".

Apply the style to all of the fields you do not want checked. The others
will be checked.

Hope this helps


On 30/3/06 8:56 AM, in article
, "Merge Spell Check"
Merge Spell wrote:

Ok, so I have a Word document with a whole bunch of mail merge fields. I
figured out how to spell check the merge fields like Cindy says to set the
language. The problem is that it spell checks last names of people I'm
sending letters to. Is there a way to just set a specific field or two to be
spell checked without having it check every single field???

"Cindy M -WordMVP-" wrote:

Hi ?B?Vml2aWFuIFA=?=,

I have a Word document with several mail merge fields. When the document is
gnerated, the mail merge fields default to 'do not check spelling'. How do
I
get the document to generate to permit spell checking for the entire
document. I am aware that I can uncheck the option on a field by field
basis
but this is not practical in the environment. I need to set the spell check
for the entire document.

There's no way to force field code results to automatically support spelling.
But you can use Ctrl+A to select the entire document and apply the language
in
one step.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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