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I phrased my question badly. I meant, in Office 2007 is there a way to spell check within a form field. Looks like I can do it if I convert the template from the legacy forms to the new XML forms. 
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I phrased my question badly. I meant, in Office 2007 is there a way to spell check within a form field. Looks like I can do it if I convert the template from the legacy forms to the new XML forms.

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The form needs to be converted to XML.
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It can be done with VBA, by turning off the protection before checking. I think that someone (perhaps myself) has posted the code here, but I can't rememember at the momen. I'll see if I can find it.
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It can be done with VBA, by turning off the protection before checking. I think that someone (perhaps myself) has posted the code here, but I can't rememember at the momen. I'll see if I can find it.

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You might find this relevant:<br />
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<a href="https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/26352341/How-do-I-enable-spell-checking-for-text-boxes-in-a-MS-Word-2007.html" rel="ugc">https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/26352341/How-do-I-enable-spell-checking-for-text-boxes-in-a-MS-Word-2007.html</a>
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You might find this relevant:

https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/26352341/How-do-I-enable-spell-checking-for-text-boxes-in-a-MS-Word-2007.html [https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/26352341/How-do-I-enable-spell-checking-for-text-boxes-in-a-MS-Word-2007.html]

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Has there been any progress in Word 2007 to allow spell checking within a locked form field? We're still using legacy forms, not XML.
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Has there been any progress in Word 2007 to allow spell checking within a locked form field? We're still using legacy forms, not XML.

Spell checking inside protected form fields

Microsoft Word is a commercial document editing program that is part of the Microsoft Office suite. It features numerous text-editing tools for creating richly formatted documents, along with tools for the use of macros in Word documents. Word's native file formats are denoted either by a .doc or .docx file extension. Plugins permitting the Windows versions of Word to read and write formats it does not natively support, such as the OpenDocument format (ODF) are available. Word can import and display images in common bitmap formats such as JPG and GIF. It can also be used to create and display simple line-art.