Ken,

>I hope its OK to send this to you. I have seen your rtf threads.
>I have been working with rtf ocx and
>now I need to figure out how to programicly
>select all the text in the rtf ole control for spell checking.
>if I highlight it with the mouse I get all the text
>but I don't want a user to have to do that.

You can highlight a section of text programatically with the SelStart and SelLength Properties. You can also protect it with SelProtected. DO check out your ActiveX help on the RichText Control.

>
>if have any ideas Thank You
>Ken Paulson