Saving a setting for a document and template no matter who opens i

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Adrienne

----Saving a setting for a document and template no matter who opens it (and
no matter what their normal.dot template specifies)----

Hello all,

I need to know if setting the Tools>Options > check spelling as you type
while working in a particular document...
will save for just that document, or for all documents ever opened from
that computer. i.e is the setting a..
• document setting, or a
• user profile setting, or a
• template setting?

How do I make Word always 'check spelling as you type' for EVERY document
opened and created, without having to set the option for every document?I'm
guessing I set my own normal.dot template this way. This is fine for
me...but on a network level like SharePoint when many people may look at one
document, just say my normal.dot says to 'check spelling...', but their
normal.dot doesn't have it checked, is there any way I can make it so at
least that particular document has the option set? i.e can i save the
setting to the document itself, not just to normal.dot?


Thank you,
 
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Daiya Mitchell

Hi Adrienne,

"check spelling as you type" is an application/user profile setting. It
applies to Word regardless of the document or place of creation.

There is a "hide spelling errors in this document" option in the same
place in Tools | Options| Spelling and Grammar. That one is
document-specific, and it travels with the document (I'm pretty sure),
so if you set it on your machine, it should continue to operate when you
share the document. People may have done that, and you should be able
to undo it, per-document. If this setting is set in a template, then it
will be passed to any document created from that template.

But there is a third option for hiding spelling errors--the text itself
can be formatted as "do not check spelling and grammar" through Tools |
Language. People may have sent you documents with that formatting
applied. Again, if this setting is set in a template, it will be passed
to any document created from that template.

Settings in a template will *only* have an impact at the moment the
document is created--after that, the doc is pretty divorced from the
template *except* that it is possible to update style definitions, but
nothing else.

Also note--you’ve landed in a MacWord group (not your fault, the
interface is *very* badly designed). For the general Word newsgroups,
start here:
http://www.microsoft.com/office/community/en-us/FlyoutOverview.mspx
 
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Adrienne

Daiya,

thank you for the info, and especially letting me know I was in the Mac space!

I didn't know that the 'check spelling as you type' was a user profile
setting, but now I do, this helps me to rephrase my question in the non-Mac
area and talk to our IT dude.

Cheers,

Adrienne
 
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Daiya Mitchell

You're welcome--glad to help.
Daiya
Daiya,

thank you for the info, and especially letting me know I was in the Mac space!

I didn't know that the 'check spelling as you type' was a user profile
setting, but now I do, this helps me to rephrase my question in the non-Mac
area and talk to our IT dude.

Cheers,

Adrienne

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