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Jack_Feeman - 27 Mar 2006 20:59 GMT

I have read the cited collaborated instruction "How toenable the spellchecker
in a protected document and very much impressed with its thoroughness. This
question is based on the document being a form with form fields and text on
the same line so the division of protected/unprotected areas by continuous
page breaks is not the answer.

I tried to write a macro assigned to a button which when clicked would (1)
unprotect the document, (2) spellcheck the entire document, and (3)
re-protect the document. I finally got it to work but the spell checker
didn't seem to catch spelling errors in text boxes in the form, so I tried to
spellcheck it with the normal menu bar (F7) control. I found that while it
did work with text entered in the Text Form Field; it did not work with text
in Text boxes.

(1) I concluded that if all user entries have to be speel-checked; text form
fields have to be used in lieu of Text boxes. Is this Correct?
(2) Is my macro an easier way to spellcheck a Word Form in view of the
limitation sited in the first paragraph when using breaks to divide areas of
the form to protect/unprotect?

Thanks

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Charles Kenyon - 28 Mar 2006 01:44 GMT

The macro on the MVP website is _the way_ to do a spell check of a protected
form. You should not use a text box in a form as a field holder. Convert the
text box to a frame and see if that helps.

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Jack_Feeman - 28 Mar 2006 13:15 GMT

Thanks Charles,

I will retry the MVP suggestion. Maybe I missed something about separating
half a line with section breaks. (The form has a text form field followed by
checkboxes on the same line. I wanted to place the check boxes in the
protected part but not the form fields.)

Thanks for the tip on text boxes vs form fields.

> The macro on the MVP website is _the way_ to do a spell check of a protected
> form. You should not use a text box in a form as a field holder. Convert the
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Charles Kenyon - 28 Mar 2006 15:23 GMT

Text form fields should be in the protected part as well. That is what they
are there for.

No, you didn't miss anything as far as section breaks. You can't have half
of a line protected and the other half unprotected.

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Jack_Feeman - 28 Mar 2006 19:35 GMT

Thanks

> Text form fields should be in the protected part as well. That is what they
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jrfloyd - 30 Mar 2006 11:18 GMT

I have a form with text fields in it. The form is protected. I also have
bookmarks with matching referance fields. The bookmarks are set to calculate
upon exit. The problem is as soon as the user tabs through one of the fields
it sets the Language setting back to do not spell check for the whole
document. I have tried the macro on the MVP website and it does not work
because the text fields get set back to not spell check and it does not
change that. I can get it to spell check if I unprotect the form, highlight
the text, go to the language setting and uncheck the do not spell check. But
that has to be done on every text field I want to spell check on every time I
use the form. Can a macro be written or modified to do this for me? Or is
there a way to set the document to allow spell check even if it has bookmarks
that calculate on exit. I know its the bookmarks that are the problem because
the document keeps the language setting I give it and spell checks the text
fileds until I add the bookmark and tell it to calculate on exit. I'm at the
end of my rope on this so any help would be great.

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Charles Kenyon - 30 Mar 2006 15:01 GMT

Please start a new thread to get the best advice on this. The macro on the
MVP site works. It works with REF fields that are based on formfields. The
formfields can be set to calculate on exit. The macro still works.

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