Spell checking within a Form

Dennis · External Since: Oct 19, 2004 Posts: 204

I have created a form doc/template with only text input feilds. It is an
employees review form with must have free flowing text fields. After
protecting the doc all the feilds work exactly the way they were intended.
There is only one problem. The input fields are not automaticly spell
checked nor is there any way of starting the spell check function.

There is no help information concerning this subject. The only answers I
can find on MS web site is creating either a creating marco or writting a VB
program to proform this function. That seem a bit extream for a function
that should be included.

Can the spell check function be enabled without either the use of a marco or
a VB program?

Jay Freedman · External Since: Mar 17, 2004 Posts: 2955

On Sun, 20 Nov 2005 12:06:02 -0800, Dennis
<Dennis.RemoveThis@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>I have created a form doc/template with only text input feilds. It is an
>employees review form with must have free flowing text fields. After
>protecting the doc all the feilds work exactly the way they were intended.
>There is only one problem. The input fields are not automaticly spell
>checked nor is there any way of starting the spell check function.
>
>There is no help information concerning this subject. The only answers I
>can find on MS web site is creating either a creating marco or writting a VB
>program to proform this function. That seem a bit extream for a function
>that should be included.
>
>Can the spell check function be enabled without either the use of a marco or
>a VB program?

No. It's a macro or nothing.

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Dennis · External Since: Oct 19, 2004 Posts: 204

Jay, thanks for getting back to me. Too bad I was hoping to make the doc
user friendly. I also wanted to give an average user the ablity to create
the forms.

No worries, I will just convert the doc to Abobe Acrobat and recreate the
form. If other users need to know Acrobat automaticly does the spell check.
Creating the form and input fields is also a lot easier...

Cheers
Dennis

"Jay Freedman" wrote:

> On Sun, 20 Nov 2005 12:06:02 -0800, Dennis
> <Dennis.DeleteThis@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
> >I have created a form doc/template with only text input feilds. It is an
> >employees review form with must have free flowing text fields. After
> >protecting the doc all the feilds work exactly the way they were intended.
> >There is only one problem. The input fields are not automaticly spell
> >checked nor is there any way of starting the spell check function.
> >
> >There is no help information concerning this subject. The only answers I
> >can find on MS web site is creating either a creating marco or writting a VB
> >program to proform this function. That seem a bit extream for a function
> >that should be included.
> >
> >Can the spell check function be enabled without either the use of a marco or
> >a VB program?
>
> No. It's a macro or nothing.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Jay Freedman
> Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org
> Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the
> newsgroup so all may benefit.
>