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spellcheck in a form
Using Word 2004. Must be missing something. I create a form for others to
use. I protect it. When I do this there is no option to allow the data entered by the user to be spell checked . I don't have the "spelling and grammar" box checked per previous messages. The macro is not helpful. I'm a user, not a programmer. When I tried to follw the directions, got the macro to run, but only if I unprotected the document to be able to get to the macro utility, which is disabled when you protect the form. When I enter data in the form while protected and then turn off protection to try to spell check, does catck any of the miss-spelling in the data I entered while in protected mode. Help? "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/...ProtectDoc.htm |
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The macro is designed to unprotect the form, run spell check, and then
reprotect the form without clearing it. The form should be a template, and the macro should be stored in the template (which is presumably unprotected while you are designing it). -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Fish" wrote in message ... Using Word 2004. Must be missing something. I create a form for others to use. I protect it. When I do this there is no option to allow the data entered by the user to be spell checked . I don't have the "spelling and grammar" box checked per previous messages. The macro is not helpful. I'm a user, not a programmer. When I tried to follw the directions, got the macro to run, but only if I unprotected the document to be able to get to the macro utility, which is disabled when you protect the form. When I enter data in the form while protected and then turn off protection to try to spell check, does catck any of the miss-spelling in the data I entered while in protected mode. Help? "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/...ProtectDoc.htm |
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With your template unprotected, add a command to your Tools menu in the
template. Note that you want to store this in the template, not in normal.dot! Tools Customize... Commands (tab) Change Save in to your template. left window: macros right window: the macro to spell check forms Move this to your tools menu (drag it) You can right-click on the new command to change the displayed name if you want to something like: &Spellcheck this Form Then click on the Close button and save your template. With new or existing forms you should be able to run the spell-check from the Tools menu. http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...oToToolbar.htm If you want, you can make the F7 (Spell-check) key run the macro as well, by clicking on the Keyboard button on the Customize dialog box. Again, make sure your changes are being saved in your template. http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...roToHotkey.htm I have enough forms that I choose to make this a global command replacing the ordinary spellcheck. (If run in a non-form, the macro simply does the spellcheck which would otherwise be done.) I put this in a global template (distributed to other users as well) rather than in each template. See http://addbalance.com/word/movetotemplate.htm for step-by-step instructions on moving / sharing / copying / backing-up customizations including AutoText, AutoCorrect, keyboard assignments, toolbars, macros, etc. If you only have a couple of forms where you would want spell-check to run, I would simply put the modifications in the template for each form. Hope this helps. I know it seems overwhelming at first but just follow the steps outlined and you'll have opened up a whole new world of functionality in Word for you. -- 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! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "Fish" wrote in message ... Using Word 2004. Must be missing something. I create a form for others to use. I protect it. When I do this there is no option to allow the data entered by the user to be spell checked . I don't have the "spelling and grammar" box checked per previous messages. The macro is not helpful. I'm a user, not a programmer. When I tried to follw the directions, got the macro to run, but only if I unprotected the document to be able to get to the macro utility, which is disabled when you protect the form. When I enter data in the form while protected and then turn off protection to try to spell check, does catck any of the miss-spelling in the data I entered while in protected mode. Help? "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/...ProtectDoc.htm |
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spellcheck in a form
I just don't get it.
I have the macro pasted in from http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/...ProtectDoc.htm and yet mine does not work. I feel like there is something that I'm assumed to know, but I don't know what it is. Here are my steps: I have saved the macro into the template. Then I protect it for forms and close it, saving changes. I reopen it (as a new doc, not the dot) and the spellcheck button is not lit up for use. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: The macro is designed to unprotect the form, run spell check, and then reprotect the form without clearing it. The form should be a template, and the macro should be stored in the template (which is presumably unprotected while you are designing it). -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Fish" wrote in message ... Using Word 2004. Must be missing something. I create a form for others to use. I protect it. When I do this there is no option to allow the data entered by the user to be spell checked . I don't have the "spelling and grammar" box checked per previous messages. The macro is not helpful. I'm a user, not a programmer. When I tried to follw the directions, got the macro to run, but only if I unprotected the document to be able to get to the macro utility, which is disabled when you protect the form. When I enter data in the form while protected and then turn off protection to try to spell check, does catck any of the miss-spelling in the data I entered while in protected mode. Help? "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/...ProtectDoc.htm |
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spellcheck in a form
You need to run the macro to execute the spell check. To be able to do
that, you will either need to assign the macro to the keyboard, or to a button that you add to a toolbar, or to run on exit from one of the formfields. The reason for that is that the Macro item on the Tools menu is not enabled when a protected document is the active document. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "swerk" swerk@donotspam wrote in message ... I just don't get it. I have the macro pasted in from http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/...ProtectDoc.htm and yet mine does not work. I feel like there is something that I'm assumed to know, but I don't know what it is. Here are my steps: I have saved the macro into the template. Then I protect it for forms and close it, saving changes. I reopen it (as a new doc, not the dot) and the spellcheck button is not lit up for use. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: The macro is designed to unprotect the form, run spell check, and then reprotect the form without clearing it. The form should be a template, and the macro should be stored in the template (which is presumably unprotected while you are designing it). -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Fish" wrote in message ... Using Word 2004. Must be missing something. I create a form for others to use. I protect it. When I do this there is no option to allow the data entered by the user to be spell checked . I don't have the "spelling and grammar" box checked per previous messages. The macro is not helpful. I'm a user, not a programmer. When I tried to follw the directions, got the macro to run, but only if I unprotected the document to be able to get to the macro utility, which is disabled when you protect the form. When I enter data in the form while protected and then turn off protection to try to spell check, does catck any of the miss-spelling in the data I entered while in protected mode. Help? "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/...ProtectDoc.htm |
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spellcheck in a form
Okay, I've run the macro, and removed one error (some red dashed line).
Thank you! I'm really showing how new I am to macros, but now I'm not finding how to assign the macro to the keyboard or to a button. In my struggle with all this, I've seen that choice at the beginning of "recording a macro", but now that the macro already exists how do I get there? Perhaps the entry to this post from Charles Kenyon is my next answer? I'm just reading through it now. "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: You need to run the macro to execute the spell check. To be able to do that, you will either need to assign the macro to the keyboard, or to a button that you add to a toolbar, or to run on exit from one of the formfields. The reason for that is that the Macro item on the Tools menu is not enabled when a protected document is the active document. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "swerk" swerk@donotspam wrote in message ... I just don't get it. I have the macro pasted in from http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/...ProtectDoc.htm and yet mine does not work. I feel like there is something that I'm assumed to know, but I don't know what it is. Here are my steps: I have saved the macro into the template. Then I protect it for forms and close it, saving changes. I reopen it (as a new doc, not the dot) and the spellcheck button is not lit up for use. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: The macro is designed to unprotect the form, run spell check, and then reprotect the form without clearing it. The form should be a template, and the macro should be stored in the template (which is presumably unprotected while you are designing it). -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Fish" wrote in message ... Using Word 2004. Must be missing something. I create a form for others to use. I protect it. When I do this there is no option to allow the data entered by the user to be spell checked . I don't have the "spelling and grammar" box checked per previous messages. The macro is not helpful. I'm a user, not a programmer. When I tried to follw the directions, got the macro to run, but only if I unprotected the document to be able to get to the macro utility, which is disabled when you protect the form. When I enter data in the form while protected and then turn off protection to try to spell check, does catck any of the miss-spelling in the data I entered while in protected mode. Help? "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/...ProtectDoc.htm |
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