Spell check when merging

[BCK_57]

A user has noticed that Excel isn't spell checking his data and when he
merges into Word, it's not picking up the spelling mistakes either.

Is Word supposed to do a spell check of merged data from Excel? If so,
please advise which settings we need to set.

We're using Windows 2000, SP 4, Office 2000, SP 3. Thanks, Katherine

 

[Graham Mayor]

Merge to a new document, select all (CTRL+A) Tools > language > set language
and set the required spelling language.
and/or
Check the style of the merge document where the text is inserted has a
proofing option set in the style formatting and use \*charformat on the
mergefield(s) to apply that style to the merged text.

If the second suggestion doesn't work, the first should

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