Have you checked Default... in the Language dialog? Have you made sure that
your Normal style is not formatted as "Do not check spelling or grammar"?

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
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"Technical Misfit" wrote in
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I realize that , but it is doing that even with orignal text. If I close
the
program, restart the computer, reopen word and start working on a new
document, the same thing happens.

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

When you paste text into a document or open an existing document, the
language formatting may be different. Like font and paragraph
formatting,
this is carried along with the text.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"Technical Misfit" Technical wrote in
message ...
My spell checker is not working. I all ready have done the Ctrl A,
language,
uncheck the box exercise. It works when I do that. I want to know if
there
is
a way that I can stop the spell checker from automatically selecting
that
optionl. I have deselected the do not check box several times, but
everytime
I run spell check, it is checked in the menu.