Spell Recheck button doesn't seem to work

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Office Productivity Consultant - 12 Mar 2008 19:20 GMT

I tried adding the Spell Recheck button to the Quick Access Toolbar but it
does nothing. If I close the document and reopen it, it will find the items I
had marked to ignore but I want the Recheck to work right away. It does work
if I go into the Word Options and do it but not if I add Recheck as a button
on the Quick Access Toolbar. I also tried creating a macro to do it and that
does not work either.

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Bob Buckland ?:-) - 13 Mar 2008 07:36 GMT

Hi Judy,

Interesting. If during spell check you cleared a spelling flag by using 'Ignore Once' the Quick Access toolbar will restore those
items, but it doesn't restore the ones cleared by using 'Ignore All', while the command in the Office Button=>Word Options=>Proofing
will reset in either case. Word appears to be storing 'ignore all' choices for the duration of the session (possibly in a temp
file) that isn't reset with the 'single' command.

Assigning a keyboard shortcut to the ToolsSpellingRecheckDocument command mimics the QAT behavior. You can assign a keyboard
shortcut to ToolsSpelling to popup the Word options dialog to the proofing pane and click the Recheck Document choice there, else a
macro to walk the steps to reset the 'ignore all' choices (not a recorded one it appears).

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I tried adding the Spell Recheck button to the Quick Access Toolbar but it
does nothing. If I close the document and reopen it, it will find the items I
had marked to ignore but I want the Recheck to work right away. It does work
if I go into the Word Options and do it but not if I add Recheck as a button
on the Quick Access Toolbar. I also tried creating a macro to do it and that
does not work either.

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Office Productivity Consultant - 13 Mar 2008 16:49 GMT

Well, that at least helps me understand it. I did code the macro (copied the
code from the help file, in fact) and it still did not work. I'm setting this
up for a client and we don't want people going into the Options dialog box
for fear of what they might do so the button would have been the best way. We
also wanted it linked to a macro, actually that would not only reset all the
ignored words but also restart the spell check. Thanks for your help with
this.

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> Hi Judy,
>
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> on the Quick Access Toolbar. I also tried creating a macro to do it and that
> does not work either.

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