Re: Spelling not working correctly

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From: Charles Kenyon (msnewsgroup_at_remove.no.spam.addbalance.com)
Date: 06/08/04 

Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2004 11:35:21 -0500

If Ignore All has been hit for something, you need to reset the spelling for
that document.

I suspect, though, that you have text formatted to not check spelling. Press
Shift-F1 and click on one of the misspelled words. See anything about "no
proofing" or "Do not check spelling or grammar?" 

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"Sharon" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:19bf701c44d73$7cbf0dd0$a401280a@phx.gbl...
> My boss has given me a letter and it is riddled with
> misspelled words!  But, when I hit the spell check, it is
> not detecting them!  I assume :) that my boss has gone
> through the document and ignored all the misspellings?  I
> tried to copy the document and put it in a new document
> and try to hit spell check again, but it did not work
> either.  Once the misspelling has been ignored, how do you
> make the spell checker start over from scratch and go to
> the misspellings? OR how do you take off the skip grammar
> and spell check if my boss has somehow activated that.

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