I went though this same problem about a year and a half ago. Basicly you're stuck with one of two solutions. One is too write something that merges the plain text version of the memo field back in with the rtf code, or to use a 3rd party spell checker. I finally wrote a function that did the merging, but it was a real pain in the neck.

>You are absolutely correct. I am able to use the 'text' property to spell check the field. This does, however, bring up another problem. If a spelling error has been made, when I save the corrected 'text' property, all formatting is lost and everything reverts to Ariel Bold.
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>Any idea how to keep the previous formatting?
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>Thanks,
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>TFISHER
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>>Hi,
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>> The Microsoft Rich Textbox Control has a 'text' property. This is the plain text version of all the jumble that is stored in your memo field. If you set the control source of your chell specker to oYourRTF.text, it might do the job.
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>>Alan