Thank you both for your suggestions. I do appreciate it. After spending three
hours going over the documents, I'm as confused as ever. At this point, I
don't have time to understand macros anymore. I just have to be able to
spellcheck this protected template and the resulting documents. So I decided
to just paste the code from the mvp document and figure our macros later,
figuring how hard could that be, right?

I follow the steps, I paste everything from the words "Option Explicit"
until I get to "End Sub" right above the word Notes, because I'm assuming I'm
supposed to put all of this information in. I save and close everything down.
I open the template, go to Tools, Macro, Macros, click Run. The (Code) window
opens again in Visual Basic and I get this window: Compile error: Invalid
inside procedure. I click on Help and understand absolutely nothing that help
tells me.

I've had someone tell me to explore OpenOffice.org as another way of trying
to get this template to be spellcheckable. Any help anyone could give would
be appreciated!

"MrsMac" wrote:

Word 2003. Every time I run into a Word glitch, I'm directed towards macros.
I've been to the mvp site over and over. I simply do not understand macros at
all. I don't understand how to create one, how to run one, what all that
"stuff" means, etc. I have tried numerous times and end up shutting
everything down in total frustration. I gladly do the repetitive tasks that
macros are supposed to streamline because it's easier than trying to figure
out macros!

But now I HAVE to figure them out -- I'm creating a large series of locked
forms templates that will need to be spellchecked after data entry and I
can't find a workaround.

I want to do a continuing ed class on this, but in the interim can anyone
recommend a book that offers REALLY simple, step-by-step explanations of
macros? I'm stressing REALLY SIMPLE here! I checked my local library for
"Macros for Dummies" but got no hits. I appreciate any direction anyone can
give. Thank you!