[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

It sounds to me as if you are applying the Comment Text style to a paragraph
in a different style. When you click OK to accept changes in the Modify
Style dialog, you should be returned to the Style dialog, where you have a
choice of Apply or Close. Close is adequate.

But I can confirm that neither Comment Text nor Balloon Text is by default
formatted as "Do not check spelling or grammar" (although "Detect language
automatically" is checked and disabled).

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
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Words into Type
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"Dainty" wrote in message
...
Yes...that's what I was doing. I followed your directions and when I hit
"Apply" it changes the font of the paragraph that I happen to be on. Even
if
I don't hit apply, it still won't spell check....and I can't get it to
spell
check the comments...very frustrating!

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Dainty


"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

Instead of changing the font for Comments, did you try changing the
Language
settings (making sure that "Do not check spelling or grammar" was not
checked)?

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"Dainty" wrote in message
...
I ran spell check all the way and it doesn't pick up the
misspellings...

I've tried doing what the above posted told me, but then it just
changes
the
font, etc and I can't get it to work...*sigh*

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Dainty


"Daiya Mitchell" wrote:

side note--

Did you let spell-check run all the way? Word probably checks the
main
text, and then goes back and checks the comments--Word does *not*
spell-check page by page, so it may appear to be skipping comments
that
it will get to later. (This is the behavior with footnotes--I've not
tested it with comments, but I suspect Word does the same)

Dainty wrote:
I don't know comments very well in a Word document. Is there a
way to
spell
check them? It doesn't appear that spell check, when ran with the
document
itself, picks any misspelling up....

Thank you!