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>OK then... now we are getting to the heart of the matter. Craig, once again, I would suggest that until you have actually "done" something with respect to a topic you are commenting, it is best to couch your comments as such. I on the other hand have had to weave Word in many times as a spell checker for clients. That said, those articles on automation, particually with Word, are borne from experience, as opposed to white-coat/lab-rat theory.

I've seen those approaches. I've sat through your DevCon sessions on VBA. I've seen spellcheck with Word demoed. It may have been you that did it. My reaction was, "It's cool you can do that...but it doesn't match my UI. It looks like a kludge."

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>Sorry to be so critical here Craig. It's just that I have a heard time with you criticizing an approach, when you have never applied the subject matter.
Again, you do this a lot, speak on topics from the standpoint of having relevant experience and a real understanding of the subject matter. In reality, after I press you for some details, it often turns out to actually be something you have read or something you have heard about. Obviously, I am not as zestful as I used to be with such matters.

I shouldn't have to try everything...and neither should any of us. That's why we have a community. Get the insight and experience of others that have tried it. However, the fact that I can know there is a button on the spellcheck dialog that allows the user to launch the Assistant must mean that I have some knowledge of this outside of what others have demonstrated at DevCon.

Now, I'm not saying that using Word for spell check is wrong. I am expressing my opinion. Nothing more. At no point did I say "it can't be done." At no point were my postings incorrect from a technology standpoint. Again, John, you are jumping all over something someone has said as their opinion. Your opinion is that using Word is fine. What we have again is a difference of opinion.

Can Word be used for spellchecking? Of course...and again, I've never said it can't. Should it be used? That's a matter of opinion. You have one side and I have the other.

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>Yet again, I have been drawn into what could be an intelligent discussion. Again, in the end, it turns out that you begin a discussion with what appears to be very firm ground. After some poking and prodding on my part, you yet again come back with the same line of "well, I have never had a reason to do that..".

I've never done it because it's never been requested.

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>Craig, the whole basis of this discussion was in relation to what the client is requesting and in turn, how to best deliver on that request. If you have never delivered on such a request, would you please tell me how you have a point of view based on experience?

I don't...and I never said I did. There are lots of things that I've never implemented in a production system, but that doesn't mean I haven't played with the technology.

>The fact is, you don't. Your previous replies give the impression that you have bypassed the Word option in favor of something else. In reality, you have never done such a thing.

I also never said I would use the other alternatives. I said there are others.

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>Please Craig, in the future, if you are going to take the time to debate me or engage me in a discussion, come to the table with some relevant point of view. Or, at the very least, qualify your point of view. That will tell me whether the post is worth a response...< s >...

As I recall, you jumped in on this and started debating me.