[judi]

I have been reading a lot of messages about spell check not working
and have tried some of the suggestions.

I am also getting the message "spell check complete - text marked do
not check spelling was skipped" (or close anyway). I have tried
control A and going to Language/Set Language and sure enough the box
has a gray checkmark for do not check spelling. I uncheck it, check
spelling, close document, open the document again, and once again the
checkmark is there. I have changed the normal.dot template, same
error.

I discovered that the error was showing up in the header and footer,
fixed that. However, every time I close the document and open it
again the same checkmark appears in the document. It seems to be a
part of this particular document. I even had the reveal codes on and
went into each header and footer to see if the error popped up there
(because while I had the reveal formatting codes on, is when I
discovered that the header and footer had the spell check problem),
and seemed to fix the problem there -- no gray checkmark in Lanugage/
Set Language when in headers/footers.

The problem is, this document is being sent to a printer in a week and
will be distributed to 30,000 people. At this point I do not trust
the spell check.

Any suggestions?

Thank you to anyone who may have an idea for me.

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Did you select all the text in the document before clearing the check box?

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I have been reading a lot of messages about spell check not working
and have tried some of the suggestions.

I am also getting the message "spell check complete - text marked do
not check spelling was skipped" (or close anyway). I have tried
control A and going to Language/Set Language and sure enough the box
has a gray checkmark for do not check spelling. I uncheck it, check
spelling, close document, open the document again, and once again the
checkmark is there. I have changed the normal.dot template, same
error.

I discovered that the error was showing up in the header and footer,
fixed that. However, every time I close the document and open it
again the same checkmark appears in the document. It seems to be a
part of this particular document. I even had the reveal codes on and
went into each header and footer to see if the error popped up there
(because while I had the reveal formatting codes on, is when I
discovered that the header and footer had the spell check problem),
and seemed to fix the problem there -- no gray checkmark in Lanugage/
Set Language when in headers/footers.

The problem is, this document is being sent to a printer in a week and
will be distributed to 30,000 people. At this point I do not trust
the spell check.

Any suggestions?

Thank you to anyone who may have an idea for me.