Thanks Rick. I'll try this file and see how it works. My company is looking at a commercial product, but can not buy it until next year. Thank you for showing me the file. I'll let you know how it works out.

Stephen.


>Stephen,
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>I'm surprized you haven't had any replies before now...
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>If you're still looking (I've just started looking), there is an interesting class in the files section...wrdspell.zip. It goes out to Word '97 for it's spellchecking....and it appears to be free. If that doesn't get it there are some commercial ones...
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>Rick Liebespach
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>>Are there any spellchecking tools out there that don't require a fee for using them. any format is fine. Thanks in advance
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>>Stephen