John, From the time that you spell check the first time do you do some work on the document, meaning do you alter it in some way? When you alter the document all your commands to ignore in spell check are no longer in effect. Judith ----- Original Message ----- From: John Ramsey To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Monday, November 20, 2006 3:12 PM Subject: MS Word Problem Hello All, I am using JFW 8, windows XP, and MS Office 2000. I have been experiencing a problem with the spell check in MS Word that seems kind of strange. When I tell the spell check to ignore a particular rule or word, and then resume work on the document at a later time, the same rules and words that were supposed to be ignored are always rechecked and this is kind of annoying. Does anyone else have this kind of problem? Take care, John