microsoft word training courses london - No spellchecking with tables and forms?

Hi Justin

Thanks for your question.

Apparently not being able to use spellcheck in documents that have protection applied is a bug that has been around for a while.

There is apparently a work-around but it requires setting up a macro in the Visual Basic Editor (Tools - Macro - Visual Basic Editor).

The code for the macro can be copied from here: http://word.mvps.org/faqs/macrosvba/SpellcheckProtectDoc.htm

Once you go into the Visual Basic Editor in Word, you can open an area to paste the code into using the 'This document' under Project in the window on the left of the screen. Once the code has been pasted, save the code (same as saving a Word document). Then you would need to test it to see if it works!

I have not used this myself so don't know from personal experience whether or not it works but would be interested to know how you get on.

Also here is a link to a Google Groups Word Mac group posting that may be of interest to you:
http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.mac.office.word/browse_thread/thread/52c13589a18ce5bd/7b26f0068a0910f2?lnk=st& ;q=Word+2004+mac+spellcheck+forms&rnum=3#7b26f0068a0910f2

thanks
Amanda