No Laura, you're not alone. The spell check sometimes goes crazy and, as Patricia mentioned, If you get out of it and go back in you're usually fine. Judith ----- Original Message ----- From: Patricia To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Friday, December 15, 2006 11:55 AM Subject: Re: Spellcheck in Word 2003 I've had that problem too, though when I do escape and hit f7 again things seem to be working. sorry I couldn't give you a more definitive asnwer as you would have liked but I thought it would help to know that you're not the only one. Patricia msn: bc_sarah_fan@xxxxxxxxxxx ----- Original Message ----- From: Lora To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Friday, December 15, 2006 5:05 AM Subject: Spellcheck in Word 2003 I believe I posted this question to the list some months back, but I don't think I ever saw a definitive answer. I'd hoped it would be fixed with JAWS 8, but no luck. Sometimes, in Word, when I run spell check, JAWS says: Not in dictionary ... Then it doesn't say anything else. You don't know which word is misspelled, or what suggestion Word is offering. Other times, the spell checker will work properly. If it doesn't work, it will never work for that file, and if it does work, it will always work for that file. I've heard it might be related to font, but that doesn't seem logical to me. If anyone knows what's going on, let me know, especially if there's a way to correct this. Thanks, Lora