>A client wishes to spell check text in a memo field. My solution was to use Word as follows:
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>oSpellIt = NEWOBJECT("SpellIt","SpellBound")
>oSpellIt.CheckSource="horses.hr_own_stm"
>oSpellIt.SaveChanges = .t.
>oSpellIt.DataBound = .t.
>oSpellit.DoCheck
>release oSpellIt
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>This has worked fine for a number of years. Now they get the message "The action cannot be completed because the other program is busy".
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>They did upgrade from Word 2002 to 2003 recently. The procedure works OK on my machine with Word 2003.
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>Anybody got any ideas? Or, is there a better method to do spell checks?

Check Craig Boyd's class - www.sweetpotatosoftware.com is where you'll find it. I was able to implement it in just a few minutes. It does add a couple of megs to your app, mostly the dictionary data, but then you don't need any external app.