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 ...

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I'm trying to compile technical documentation & whenever I start a new
sentence, Word 2002 automatically converts the first character to uppercase.
How do I turn that annoying function off?

I never really checked this in all these years (Office 97) but now that my
nephew needs my Word...
My spellcheck is all grayed out. How do I or can I get that
function...functioning?

I have added the brand name "Compair" to my custom dictionary.  Any time I
spell "Compair", spell check corrects it to "Compare".  Suggestions?

I'm using Word 2002 on a Windows XP Pro SP2 box.
When I'm working on a mail merge document the "Do Not check spelling" option
under TOOLS - LANGUAGE - SET LANGUAGE always seems to be checked.  Is this by
default or can we change this so it is automatically not selected?

Hi. I use Word 2004 for Mac. I can't seem to add words to a custom dictionary
unless the base dictionary is U.S. English. I'm Canadian, so I want to set my
base dictionary to U.K. or Canadian English and be able to add custom words
to it, but it won't let me add words to the ...