>I am fairly new to VFP5, but I can't believe that in this day and age, one still can't do a spellcheck on an editbox whilst in a form.!! (Or am I wrong and have I missed something?)
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>Does this mean that we are still almost where dBase III was is the mid 1980's? I can still remember having to dump all the contents of a dbf's memo fields out to a text file, open a wordprocessor to do all the spell checking, and then import it all back again. It seems that very little has changed.
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>What is M$ case when it comes to Spell checking? Don't they want people running distributed applications to have correct spelling? Why can't we have spellchecking when running a form and editing a memo field (editbox)? In "computer years", I think we are still in the dark ages in this regard.
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>Just my feelings. Any thoughts?
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>Regards

David,

There are add-on products that will do what you want. For myself, I have very little need of a spell-checker if VFP. Since the type of data determines whether or not someone needs a product like this, its absence in VFP isn't surprising.