ROFL....yes, I had forgotten about JVP's article and it's a good one.

>Tanks for the tip on spel checking... it works greate now..
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>I found an article by John V. Petersen in the MSDN that had a full working example of using Word's spell checker. If anyone is lurking just search the MSDN with "John V. Petersen spell". I was using January 2000 MSDN I know I'm lazy...
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>Thanks
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>>Hey John,
>>
>>Look at the GetSpellingSuggestions method, which returns a SpellingSuggestions collection with all suggested changes.
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>>Also, look at the CheckSpellingAsYouType property.
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>>>I have seen John K.'s FAQ on using Word's built in spell checker. Is there a way to return the suggested correction?
>>>
>>>oWord=CREATEOBJECT("Word.Application")
>>>lCorrect = oWord.CheckSpelling("This phrase")
>>>
>>>If lCorrect is true, all words send to the CheckSpelling method are correct. If false, one or more words are wrong.
>>>
>>>Thanks