>Well, it occurs to me that searching in a VFP table, containing valid words, would be very fast in comparison.
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>The real challenge, of course, would be to get a list of words.
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>Normally, Word does the spell-checking gradually, in the background, while you type - so you don't really notice the slowness.
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>Also: Word, and the Word spell-checer, include a lot of features which you don't really need, if all you want is to simply return words that are not in the dictionary.

I guess I should try to find a 3rd party product then.