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Word XP spell check issue with fill-in fields

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elongp - 21 Jul 2006 15:49 GMT
I am in Desktop support. Our computers are WinXP SP2 and we have Office XP
Pro SP3 installed. One user had a weird spell check issue that it kept
changing to french in the middle of a spell check. We are in the US, and the
default language is English US. I ended up uninstalling and reinstalling to
resolve it. (I wish I had looked here first for a similar post with US vs UK
english.).

Now she can spell check fine except on this one document, which is based on
a template with two fill-in date fields, it's acting really strange. It does
the same on my computer. It looks like when you run spell check it updates
the fields, so the fill-in fields pop-up. But the fill-in field is behind the
application window so you can't click anything in Word. You have to click the
blinking Word item on the Task bar to get it to minimize, then you can click
cancel on the fill-in field window.

Any ideas? Or is this just the default behaviour and for some reason it
never acted like that before on her computer?

Thanks,

E Long Powell
Desktop Support
Texas Dept of Insurance
Cindy M  -WordMVP- - 22 Jul 2006 15:38 GMT
Hi =?Utf-8?B?ZWxvbmdw?=,

If this is the only document with the problem, then there might be something
"broken" in the document.

One way around it would be to lock the Fillin fields so that they no longer
update. I assume they're primarily for creating a new document from the
template?

Select a field then Ctrl+F11 to lock it; Ctrl+Shift+F11 to unlock; Ctrl+Shift+F9
to turn the field into plain text.

> I am in Desktop support. Our computers are WinXP SP2 and we have Office XP
> Pro SP3 installed. One user had a weird spell check issue that it kept
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> Any ideas? Or is this just the default behaviour and for some reason it
> never acted like that before on her computer?

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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elongp - 25 Jul 2006 17:11 GMT
I'll get with my customer and give it a try. Will let you know. Thanks.

E Long

> Hi =?Utf-8?B?ZWxvbmdw?=,
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