Hi Linda, Thank you for the follow-up. Anne also pointed to possible document corruption. In fact, that's why I "cleansed" the document in a text editor. Actually, I copied out only the portion that had been modified recently by several authors. The containing document is the template I use every month to produce the club's newsletter. I'd hate to rebuild all the special formatting it contains. If anyone is curious about how I am using your advice, visit www.asterism.org and click "Newsletter". Again, thanks for all the help. Ray Shapp ----- Original Message ----- From: "Linda F. Johnson" <linda@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2008 9:36 AM Subject: [mso] Re: Word 2003 Will Not Spell Check Parts of a Document > Hi Ray ... I would NOT do the registry tweaks I suggested if you've now > fixed the problem ... As I said in my first reply to you, " Ray ... if you > are sure you have successfully turned off "do not check > spelling and grammar" in all affected parts of your document and it keeps > getting turned back on, I would seriously suspect document corruption ..." > > If putting the section into Notepad and bringing it back fixed it, then I'd > DEFINITELY say it was document corruption ... I'd make a backup copy of that > document NOW while it's working just in case there's more corruption just > waiting to rear its ugly head. > > Like I say in that page I sent you to, corruption is stored in the paragraph > markers and deleting them might have done the same as moving it into > Notepad, since it's usually the formatting that causes the corruption and > that's stored in the paragraph markers. > > Glad it's fixed. > > ******************************* > Linda F. Johnson > Linda's Computer Stop > http://personal-computer-tutor.com > > ************************************************************* You are receiving this mail because you subscribed to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx or MicrosoftOffice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To send mail to the group, simply address it to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To Unsubscribe from this group, visit the group's homepage and use the dropdown menu at the top. This will allow you to unsubscribe your email address or change your email settings to digest or vacation (no mail). //www.freelists.org/webpage/mso To be able to share files with the group, you must join our Yahoo sister group. This group will not allow for posting of emails, but will allow you to join and share problem files, templates, etc.: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/MicrosoftOffice . This group is for FILE SHARING ONLY. If you are using Outlook and you see a lot of unnecessary code in your email messages, read these instructions that explain why and how to fix it: http://personal-computer-tutor.com/abc3/v28/greg28.htm *************************************************************