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How do you spell check a protected document while its protected?

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2010-06-25T14:28:30+00:00

Have a protected document set to completing forms only.  how do i spell check the text fields without unprotecting the document?

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Jay Freedman 207.7K Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
2010-06-25T14:35:41+00:00

See http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/SpellcheckProtectDoc.htm

The macro in that article unprotects the document, runs spell check, and reprotects the document. That's the only way to do it.

CoachMikeJ wrote:

Have a protected document set to completing forms only. how do i

spell check the text fields without unprotecting the document?


Jay Freedman

MS Word MVP  FAQ: http://word.mvps.org

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