A somewhat drastic solution, why not record a macro to which a keystroke can be assigned? If stored in Normal.dot it will be available to each Word document you work with. Cheers Chris -----Original Message----- From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Judith Bron Sent: 05 December 2007 13:50 To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: re-spellcheck in Word Like I said in an earlier post if you exit the document or reboot the computer and then press f7 to invoke the spell check once again the document will react as if there's never been a spell check. Been there, done that. Judith ----- Original Message ----- From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2007 11:35 PM Subject: Re: re-spellcheck in Word > Okay. Boy, that's a bit of trouble to go through. I mean, I don't mind > trying it instead of my sort of kamikaze method, and I also suppose > that if I were using the computer sighted and this just involved a few > quick glances and mouse clicks, I'd think it was no big deal. but all > those keystrokes and tab key presses and so forth. But I'm just > complaining. It's not very often I need to do something like this, so > it wouldn't kill me to go to the bother now and then. Okay. Thanks > again for explaining that you need to activate that control with the > spacebar. I didn't think of that. > > And good luck with the problem you've been having. Sorry I couldn't > have helped, but it sounded mystifying and unfamiliar to me. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "tcivi31" <tcivi31@xxxxxxxxxxx> > To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2007 7:34 PM > Subject: Re: re-spellcheck in Word > > > All it does is reset the spell check. You have to go back and start it > by pressing F 7. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2007 6:56 PM > Subject: Re: re-spellcheck in Word > > >> Ah, that's interesting. Thanks. Once you activate it, what does it >> actually do? Does it recheck a document you've just spell checked? Or >> does it add a new choice to the spell check dialogue? >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "tcivi31" <tcivi31@xxxxxxxxxxx> >> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2007 6:27 PM >> Subject: Re: re-spellcheck in Word >> >> >> You have to activate the recheck button with the space bar, for some >> reason it doesn't work when you pres enter. Tom >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2007 6:18 PM >> Subject: Re: re-spellcheck in Word >> >> >>> Dean, >>> >>> Out of curiosity, I followed your suggestion to open the Tools/Options >>> menu >>> in Word and tab down to the Recheck Document item which, unlike the >>> other >>> items in the list, isn't something you can check or uncheck, but a >>> control >>> that supposedly does something if you click on it. >>> >>> So, first I typed a line of text with a bunch of misspellings in a new >>> Word >>> document. Then I ran spell check, but chose to ignore a couple of >>> egregiously misspelled words while correcting a couple of others. >>> >>> Finished with spell check, I went into Word options, on the spelling >>> tab, >>> tabbed down to that control, and pressed enter on it. >>> >>> the Options dialogue closed, and I was back in my document with the line >>> consisting of some corrected words and others still wrong. Nothing had >>> been >>> done, and no spell checker was active. So I launched the spell checker >>> with >>> F7 as usual, to see if this control had given me permission to run spell >>> check again as a blank slate, but no. Spell check just rang its chime as >>> usual and announced that the spell check was complete. Pressing that >>> button >>> had availed me nothing. >>> >>> Did you forget to mention a step in how to use this? I can't figure out >>> anything I might have done wrong. And by the way, if you try to launch >>> spell >>> check again, hoping for the dialogue to stay up while you look for a >>> "check >>> again" check box or button, that doesn't work, either. It just chimes >>> and >>> says you're finished. >>> >>> I was intrigued enough to give this a try, but it doesn't seem to work. >>> Any >>> ideas? >>> >>> So I clicked on it. >>> >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: "Dean Martineau" <dean@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >>> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >>> Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2007 4:10 PM >>> Subject: RE: re-spellcheck in Word >>> >>> >>> To recheck the document, hit alt+t, then o, and navigate to the spelling >>> and >>> grammar page, where you will find a checkbox for recheck document. I >>> don't >>> know, because I now have Word 2007 so can't check, but perhaps when you >>> hit >>> f7 you can tab to an options button within that dialog that informs you >>> that >>> the spell check is complete, but if that can't happen, the first route >>> will >>> work. >>> >>> >>> >>> Dean >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On >>> Behalf >>> Of Jane Withers >>> Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2007 3:27 PM >>> To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >>> Subject: re-spellcheck in Word >>> >>> >>> >>> I use Word 2000 and JAWS 8. In spell checking a document, if I have >>> ignored >>> a word or two and wish to re-spellcheck the document, how do I >>> accomplish >>> this. Simply hitting F-7 only informs me that the spell check is >>> complete, >>> when in fact it is not. >>> >>> >>> -- >>> JFW related links: >>> JFW homepage: http://www.freedomscientific.com/ >>> Scripting mailing list: >>> http://lists.the-jdh.com/listinfo.cgi/scriptography-the-jdh.com >>> JFW List instructions: >>> To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >>> To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to >>> jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. >>> Archives located at: //www.freelists.org/archives/jfw >>> >>> If you have any concerns about the list, post received from the list, or >>> the way the list is being run, do not post them to the list. 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