The "do not check" formatting is essentially character formatting. It can
apply to a single word, a sentence, or a paragraph. The text which is not
being checked is almost certainly so formatted. This isn't something that
you turn on/off for an entire document; you can turn it on/off for selected
text.
--
Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide

See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome!
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"Jimbo Mambo" Jimbo wrote in message
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Here's a bit more info on this problem.

I copied this section of text into a new document where spell checking was
flagging words, and none of the misspelled words in the copied text were
flagged!

Also, I was able to insert a known misspelled word from another section in
the document into the section that was not flagging errors. To my
surprise, I
saw the copied misspelled word flagged! But, if inserted a bad character
into the words before and after it to make those words misspelled, Word
did
not flag them. It's as if Word has excluded the section's text from spell
checking. This is *very* wierd.