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Hi Kevin,
Word has a formatting feature you can use to tell it to never check the spelling or grammar for selected text, not only on your computer but on any computer. It is hidden in the Proofing Language dialog.
See my Article: Create a "No-Proofing" style in Word.
See also Mastering the Spelling Checker by Word MVP Suzanne Barnhill.
This is a user-to-user support forum and not a place to tell Microsoft to change something.
- Hello Charles,
This is interesting and I haven't thought about creating a text format to disable spelling. However, in your example you base the format on "body text", which I assume only makes it eligible for just that text style. I did a quick test, which confirmed my suspicions, it removes font style (italic/bold/underlined) and sets font colour back to "automatic", and while the dialog leaves the option to keep the font type and size empty so it takes over whatever type and size the font has, I can't see such option for font style or colour. Thus, I cannot use this on, say, a headline, which uses a green font colour or on a weak emphasis, which uses italic style and a grey colour, unless I create a "no proofing" format for every existing format, which changes these font attributes.
Or is there an option to create a text format, which leaves absolutely every setting as is and only sets the no proofing?Hi Kevin,
The macro in the article will leave alone any font formatting that is based on the paragraph style. This is standard behavior for character styles.
So, I use the Title style or the Heading 1 style for my text. Then apply the character style for no-proofing and nothing changes.
If you have not been using styles to control your formatting, especially in important documents, you are shooting yourself in the foot, making your life harder.
Charles_Kenyon I am using styles, and have created/modified several to fit the needs of the document. I have only tried creating the style you mentioned manually, as I have not yet worked with macros, but I might try that and see if it works better.
