got it fixed, instead of select all and set language to fix the problem.
click in the beginning after the header, and select to end of document,
then set language and etc to fix the spell-check
"gs" <gs.DeleteThis@dontMail.telus> wrote in message
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>I received a word document from someone who had turn off spell/grammar
>check on the document. how do turn back up spell-check? I am using office
>2003.
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>
> hate to copy as text on a new document to check and search to correct
>
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