There is a user here who has a weird problem with Outlook/Word spell
checking. When she creates a new note, spell check does not engage. You
can run the check manually and even if there are definite misspells, it
takes about half a second to come back and say the spell check is

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My document contains many misspelled words.  But, when I click TOOLS/SPELLING
AND GRAMMAR, it says "The spelling check is complete".
How do I get the application to find the spelling errors?

Hello, I'm having a brain freeze.
I want to turn off Spell Checking and hide the red/green wavy lines in a
document I'm working on, but I don't want to turn it off for all documents
(i.e., disable it through Tools>Options>Spelling).  Isn't there a way to do

How do I force Word to spellcheck a document after it tells me the spelling
check is complete and there are no errors?
Thanks

I have a Word 2000 document that has some Text Form Fields on it. They are
grey boxes and I type information into them. When I do a spell check it
won't spell check what is typed into them though. Is there any way to spell
check the contents of those fields? And actually, I'd really ...

I use Office 2003. Why does the spelling language keep defaulting to US
rather than UK even though I set UK language as the dafault language!

Using Windows XP and Office 2003.  When checking a document for spelling
errors I got the following response - Text marked with "Do Not Check
Spelling" was skipped."  What is it and how do I remove it so I can perform a
real check?

I am in the process of editing a policy manual to suit the needs of the
company I am working for. We are a collection of six doctor's practices and
the business office.
One of many of the policies that apply to medical records says: "Charts will