[Cheryl]

I have Word documents that will be created from MS Access by way of the merge
functions. Once the new Word document has been created and I try to do a
spell check, I get the €œText marked with €˜Do not check spelling or grammar€�
message. I know that when open Word normally, it is not set. I have seen
the responses by selecting all, Tools, Language, etc. but is there a way that
this can be done without user intervention. Can someone point me in a
direction to prevent this from happening to every document that is created
from the Access piece? Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.

[Robert M. Franz (RMF)]

Hello Cheryl

Cheryl wrote:
I have Word documents that will be created from MS Access by way of the merge
functions. Once the new Word document has been created and I try to do a
spell check, I get the €œText marked with €˜Do not check spelling or grammar€�
message. I know that when open Word normally, it is not set. I have seen
the responses by selecting all, Tools, Language, etc. but is there a way that
this can be done without user intervention. Can someone point me in a
direction to prevent this from happening to every document that is created
from the Access piece? Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.

version of Word/Access?

I can only test in Word 2000 at the moment, but for "mailmerged"
Mergefields, I can confirm that "Do not check spelling or grammar" is
checked in a merged document.

This makes sense IMHO: generally, you would not want to spellcheck your
DB's contents (well, in an ideal world, at least :-)).

I'm pretty sure you can automate the deselection of the spelling
checkbox. Word 2002 brought MailMerge events, and that seems to be the
way to go. Check out Cindy Meister's MailMerge-FAQ at
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister/ ("Mail merge in Word
2002/2003").

HTH
Robert
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