Hi Yuri, thanks...

I thought of that already, but unfortunately the dialog is modal so it pops up and blocks VFP. So there's no way to do this sort of activation - I even tried it off a timer with no luck - completely blocked...

Hmmm... but I wonder if it might work to force Word to the front beforehand. VFP always wants to be on top of the whole window stack when it loads COM objects, so maybe this will work to bring Word and the Spelling dialog with it to the front... will check out later.

Ultimately using Word for spell checking is probably a bad idea anyway...

+++ Rick ---

>Rick,
>
>You may try to create a separate exe/dll having timer that has calls like:
>

>oShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
>...
>if oShell.AppActivate("Spelling:")  && this probably brings the dialog to the front, at least it works for my Word older version
>
>

>
>Good Luck