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MS Office Forum / Word / Spelling and Grammar / April 2004Spell Checking Protected Documents
Spell Checking is not allowed on a protected document. Is there any other alternative to being able to do this w/o unprotecting the document? We have considered writing a macro to unprotect, spell check (maybe a field), and then protect. This causes unwanted potential security hassles if we start supplying macros w/ our word documents. Do you have any suggestions as to where I can post this problem? I'm not sure this is the best newsgroup for this question... Thanks! The _only_ way to do this is with a macro. That macro could be in a global template and run for all spell-checking if you wanted it to, rather than be in particular documents. Or you could put a special Spell-Check Form command on the menus in your form templates calling the global template's macro. Then, so long as the global template is loaded, the macro will be available, without being in your documents. See http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/MacrosVBA/SpellcheckProtectDoc.htm.  SignatureCharles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. > Spell Checking is not allowed on a protected document. Is > there any other alternative to being able to do this w/o [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > Thanks! We have some pretty specific needs. We distribute documents to field reps. They would need to have this macro embedded in the document. It would need to conduct the spell checking as they type, so that there would be no training needed (on how to launch the spell checking). I wonder if we could code an event to launch on a lost_focus event on each field. I'm guessing we would want to do some kind of signed macro that would work if their macro security is on the highest level... This is a good resource, although it seems like it is done at a global level, that needs a manual trigger to launch the check: http://word.mvps.org/faqs/macrosvba/SpellcheckProtectDoc.ht m >-----Original Message----- >The _only_ way to do this is with a macro. That macro could be in a global [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > >See http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/MacrosVBA/SpellcheckProtectDo c.htm. >> Spell Checking is not allowed on a protected document. Is >> there any other alternative to being able to do this w/o [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > >. Realistically, it cannot check it as they type. This produces too much overhead and really slows word down. You could have the macro run before saving a document or printing it. You do this by intercepting those commands. You can also attach the macro to the F7 key in your document template. Why can't your field reps have the template that contains the macro? You keep talking about documents and I keep talking about templates. That is because what you seem to be talking about is appropriate for a template and not appropriate for a document. For more on the different kinds of templates and locations of templates folders see http://addbalance.com/usersguide/templates.htm. SignatureCharles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. > We have some pretty specific needs. We distribute > documents to field reps. They would need to have this [quoted text clipped - 65 lines] > > > >. Charles, Thanks for the continued support. You are right, I was misusing the word "document", I should've been using the term "template". I am thinking that we would need to supply this macro in the template for our field reps. My confusion before, was if a macro was made at a more global scope (like normal.dot), to handle all documents/templates, then this would not work well in our scenario b/c it would need to be distributed separately than our template distribution. That is a good idea you had about doing the check at the save or print commands. I will explore the resource you provided a link to. Thanks for your help! >-----Original Message----- >Realistically, it cannot check it as they type. This produces too much [quoted text clipped - 24 lines] >> at a global level, that needs a manual trigger to launch >> the check: http://word.mvps.org/faqs/macrosvba/SpellcheckProtectDoc.ht >> m >> [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] >> > >> >See http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/MacrosVBA/SpellcheckProtectDo >> c.htm. >> > [quoted text clipped - 36 lines] > >. |
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