Hi,

No, the idea of the macro is that with it you can spell check a document
when it is protected. The macro unprotects the document and checks the
areas that are subject to change, lets the user make corrections, and then
reprotects the document.

My guess is that somehow your macro did not attach to the button on your
toolbar. Try customizing again, making sure that the customizations go to
your template and not to normal.dot. You might want to also use the keyboard
button on the customize dialog to assign your macro to the F7 key. If you do
this, make sure that the place the keyboard shortcut is saved is also your
template.

You are 95% of the way there and have done the hardest part. Just keep
plugging.
--
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://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome!
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"MrsMac" wrote in message
...
Hi Shauna,
Finally able to look at this again. Followed the steps that you outlined,
everything worked great and was very explicit -- Thank you! Unfortunately,
it
doesn't work.

I'm wondering if this is my problem: I HAVE to have the new document
locked
so that my client can tab from field to field without messing up the
design
of the form. It seems that when I lock the document, the spellcheck
protected
document doesn't work. I have the spellcheck icon on the new toolbar, and
it
is available, but when I click it nothing happens.

I am so lost!! And so frustrated. Perhaps Word is not the program I need
to
be using to accomplish this task?

Any further info you can give me is greatly appreciated!

Mrsmac



"Shauna Kelly" wrote:

Hi MrsMac

I'm really glad to hear that your code is now working.

I'm assuming you put the VBA macro code into your forms template. And
since
this is a form, I'm assuming that you're going to be sending it to other
people to use.

There are several ways to go about invoking your new macro. Here is one
relatively simple way.

Do File Open and open the template. Unprotect it. Do Tools Customize.
On
the Toolbars tab, click New. Choose an appropriate name for the toolbar
(something that refers to the name of the form would be good). And tell
the
little dialog box to save this new toolbar in your template (not
Normal.dot!).

Now, still in the Customize dialog, on the Commands tab, in the
Categories
list, find Macros. In the right, in the Commands list, you'll see your
macro
listed. Specifically, you're looking for RunSpellcheck. Drag that name to
your new toolbar. That will put a button on the toolbar that will invoke
your macro.

By default, the text on the button will be the name of the macro. If you
don't like that, right-click your new button (while the Customize dialog
is
still open), and change the name. Play around with all the other options
on
that right-click menu while you're there. If you make a complete mess,
you
can just drag the button off the toolbar into mid-air to delete it, and
then
start again.

If you decide you want an icon on your button, you can choose one from
that
right click menu by using "Change button image". But the images there
aren't
anything to write home about. Or you could use Edit Button Image, and
create
your own. Or, you could pinch the existing spelling icon and copy that to
your new button if you like. The Customize dialog is still open, right?
So
click Tools, then right-click Spelling and Grammar, copy that image. Back
on
your own new button, right-click and choose Paste Button Image.

In any case, when you're finished, close the Customize dialog and save
your
template.

The toolbar will be saved with the template, so if you distribute it to
others, it will go with the template.

Try it out by creating a new document, entering some text in, say, a form
field, and then clicking your new buttton.

There's more info, and screen shots showing some of the steps above at
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...oToToolbar.htm

Hope this helps.

Shauna Kelly. Microsoft MVP.
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word


"MrsMac" wrote in message
...
Hi Shauna,
I'm sorry it has taken me several days to get back to this -- abscessed
tooth -- ouch! Thank you so much for helping me with this -- I am so
lost.
Okay, I deleted the "Option Explicit" line, ran again. Came back with
another
error saying I had to add "End Sub" right before "Sub
RunSpellcheck( )".
So I
typed this in and no more errors. Yaay! Little victories! I then locked
the
template and closed it down.

So I have the macro in there. I tried creating a new document and
typing
errors in it, and I can't spellcheck it. I'm guessing this is where I
have
to
put the button on the toolbar or something to run it? On the template
or
the
new document? I'm sorry, I really need step-by-step help here because I
don't
understand what I'm doing. I so appreciate your assistance!


"Shauna Kelly" wrote:

Hi MrsMac

OK, for the moment, just delete the line that says "Option Explicit".
Then
try again.

As a bit of background, the Option Explicit line is not absolutely
essential
to running the macro. But it is good practice to use it when writing a
macro, because it forces the developer to explicitly declare all
variables.
If that doesn't make much sense to you now, that's OK, but one day it
will!

Specifically, there should be one Option Explicit line in the whole
module
(ie the whole kind of 'page' of macros), and it must be the very first
line
in that module.

But the macro will run without it, so for your purposes today, I'd
suggest
deleting it.

Hope this helps.

Shauna Kelly. Microsoft MVP.
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word


"MrsMac" wrote in message
...
Hi Shauna,
Thanks for your reply. I did as you suggested, and did find red
dashes,
which I deleted. Ran it again, got the same error, and it tells me
that
the
"Option Explicit" statement appears in a procedure and must be
placed
at
the
module level. The farther I go, the loster I get!

I have many other questions regarding this whole issue, but I will
take
it
one step at a time! Thank you again for your assistance.


"Shauna Kelly" wrote:

Hi MrsMac

I know how frustrating this can be! But from your description, it
looks
like
you've done everything correctly.

Let's check two things.

First, do Tools, Macro, Macros and click Run. You'll get the same
error
you
got before. The (Code) window will open again. Now, look through
the
code.
Are there any lines in red? If so, they're a problem.

If you copied the text straight from the page at
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/...ProtectDoc.htm, then
you
will
have copied several horizontal lines on that page. They marked the
end
of
one procedure and the beginning of the next. But they're just
window-dressing for the web page. So you may have several lines
that
look
like -------------- in red. If so, delete those lines.

Does it work OK now?

If not, have a look through the code. You'll see that some is in
green
(they're comments). And some is in black (that's the code that
runs).
Is
there any text in red? If so, it's an error of some kind. If so,
post
back
and copy the red bits into your message, so we can see what's going
wrong.

Hope this helps.

Shauna Kelly. Microsoft MVP.
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word


"MrsMac" wrote in message
...
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!