Spell check field contnets

[DavidH:- X]

Greetings Group,
I frequently create a mail out in which large blocks of text are
created within WORD 97's "IF...THEN...ELSE" fields.

Is there anyway to get the spell checker to scan the contents of these
fields while scanning the whole document.??

By default the contents of fields are "no proofing" and they despite
my efforts to change them are determined to stay that way.


Any and all assistance greatly appreciated.


David Hill

 

[Charles Kenyon]

If they no longer have to be in fields when you are spell checking you could
convert them to text. Putting your insertion point within the field and
pressing Ctrl-6 will "unlink" them field.
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Charles Kenyon

See the MVP FAQ: <URL: http://www.mvps.org/word/> which is awesome!
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[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi DavidH:-,

Yeah, this is a real PITA. I'd have sworn that, once upon a time, using
a \* CharFormat switch in the field worked; this doesn't work in Word
2000 or later, so it may also not in Word 97.

What I did finally stumble on, however, is that if you nest the entire
field construct in a QUOTE field, and use \* CharFormat on that, the
character formatting, including language, is retained for the field
result.

{ QUOTE { If etc. } \* CharFormat }

I frequently create a mail out in which large blocks of text are
created within WORD 97's "IF...THEN...ELSE" fields.

Is there anyway to get the spell checker to scan the contents of these
fields while scanning the whole document.??

By default the contents of fields are "no proofing" and they despite
my efforts to change them are determined to stay that way.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Sep 30 2003)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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[DavidH:- X]

Thanks Cindy and Charles for advice,
my work around to date has been either
A...merge to a new document and then spell check that before breaking
the document up into separate e-mails
or
B..writing the variable text within a field withing a record in a WORD
table, proofing in that table and then merging from the table
thanks again
DavidH[>X